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Antique Seat

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Artist: Noboru Sawai (1931 – , Canadian )

Date: c. 1979

Medium: woodcut; etching, copper on paper

Catalogue Number: SwN.04.01

Description: An antique seat is centered, on the seat is a triptych of erotica.

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Artist: Noboru Sawai (1931 – , Canadian )

Title: Antique Seat

Date: c. 1979

Medium: woodcut; etching, copper on paper

Dimensions: 51.0 x 65.5 cm

Description: An antique seat is centered, on the seat is a triptych of erotica.

Subject: figure, group; erotica

Credit: Gift of Noboru Sawai, Vancouver, 1980

Catalogue Number: SwN.04.01

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The Battle of Cressy

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1792

Medium: engraving on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.03

Description: A black and white print showing a battle scene from a classical era with knights in armour. Script at the top reads “Engraved for Ashburton’s History of England” and the bottom reads “The Battle of Cressy” and “Published by W.&J. Stratfords No. 112 Helborn Hill, March 10, 1792”. A label on the back…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: The Battle of Cressy

Date: 1792

Medium: engraving on paper

Dimensions: 18.0 x 28.5 cm

Description: A black and white print showing a battle scene from a classical era with knights in armour. Script at the top reads “Engraved for Ashburton’s History of England” and the bottom reads “The Battle of Cressy” and “Published by W.&J. Stratfords No. 112 Helborn Hill, March 10, 1792”. A label on the back paper reads “Johnson Art Galleries Limited Pictures Fine Framing. Montreal 634 St. Catherine West.”

Subject: activity; war; figure; group; animal; horse

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.03

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Bears and Woman

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Artist: Ashoona Pitseolak (1904 – 1983, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1962

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: PiA.04.01

Description: engraved images of a woman in long tailed parka faces to the left, arms outstretched; she is facing two bears one is standing and showing teeth. 2.8 dia. embossed circle in br.Bottom reads “23/50 Dorset 1962 Pitseolak”Back reads “#270 DOR/FG 1962-49”Canadian Eskimo Arts Council (CEAC)embossed chop …

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Artist: Ashoona Pitseolak (1904 – 1983, Canadian)

Title: Bears and Woman

Date: prior to 1962

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 31.5 x 45.3 cm

Description: engraved images of a woman in long tailed parka faces to the left, arms outstretched; she is facing two bears one is standing and showing teeth. 2.8 dia. embossed circle in br.Bottom reads “23/50 Dorset 1962 Pitseolak”Back reads “#270 DOR/FG 1962-49”Canadian Eskimo Arts Council (CEAC)embossed chop in br.

Subject: animal; bear; figure; female; mythological; transformation

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: PiA.04.01

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Church at Morley, Alberta

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1942

Medium: coloured woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.33

Description: McDougall Church at Morley, Alta. Mountain background with church and two figures in foreground. Signed blc WJP and inside block. Signed brc W.J. Phillips on border brc, was mailed in Season's Greetings card from Phillips. This print is #230 in R. Boulet Catalogue.

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Church at Morley, Alberta

Date: 1942

Medium: coloured woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 10.9 x 10.3 cm

Description: McDougall Church at Morley, Alta. Mountain background with church and two figures in foreground. Signed blc WJP and inside block. Signed brc W.J. Phillips on border brc, was mailed in Season's Greetings card from Phillips. This print is #230 in R. Boulet Catalogue.

Subject: mountain; architecture, rural; animal, horse; figure, male; MacDougall

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.33

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Corral at Banff

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1963

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.02

Description: Colour: yellow, green, red. The left side is taken up with the side of a teepee. In the background to the right is a figure with a horse by a fenced gate near a log building with a red roof. Behind are trees and a mountain and sky.

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Corral at Banff

Date: prior to 1963

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 8.8 x 10.1 cm

Description: Colour: yellow, green, red. The left side is taken up with the side of a teepee. In the background to the right is a figure with a horse by a fenced gate near a log building with a red roof. Behind are trees and a mountain and sky.

Subject: landscape; mountain; figure, male; animal, horse

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.02

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Cowboy on Bucking Bronco

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Artist: Reinhold H. Palenske (1884 – 1955, American)

Date: c. 1930

Medium: etching

Catalogue Number: PeR.04.07

Description: Centered in the picture is a bucking horse, all four feet off the ground. A cowboy holds the halter rope in his left hand while his right hand holds his cowboy hat high in the air.

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Artist: Reinhold H. Palenske (1884 – 1955, American)

Title: Cowboy on Bucking Bronco

Date: c. 1930

Medium: etching

Dimensions: 25.0 x 29.8 cm

Description: Centered in the picture is a bucking horse, all four feet off the ground. A cowboy holds the halter rope in his left hand while his right hand holds his cowboy hat high in the air.