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Artist
Robert Guest (1938 – 2017, Canadian)
Date
2011
Medium
oil on wood
Catalogue Number
GuR.02.01
Description
A landscape oil painting, on board, of forest on fire. The painting is dominated by one central tree. Fallen tree on fire diagonally across painting in foreground. Background is thick forest on fire and some blue sky with orange smoke. Primarily red, green, blue and yellow color palette. Au verso s…
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Artist
Robert Guest (1938 – 2017, Canadian)
Title
#4 Wildfires
Date
2011
Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
19.2 x 24.3 cm
Description
A landscape oil painting, on board, of forest on fire. The painting is dominated by one central tree. Fallen tree on fire diagonally across painting in foreground. Background is thick forest on fire and some blue sky with orange smoke. Primarily red, green, blue and yellow color palette. Au verso several stickers. At top white with black printing “THIS PAINTING HAS BEEN DONATED TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF THE WHYTE MUSEUM OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES AT BANFF. IT IS A GIFT FROM THE ARTIST, ROBERT GUEST OF GRANDE CACHE. 2012.” Sticker middle right is yellow with black print, “ CAUTION! HELP AVOID FADING: Display original artwork out of direct sunlight or other strong light, and away from heat or moist conditions!” Bottom left label, white with black printing, “#4. Wildfires./2011” NEW OILPAINT SERIES - 8X10 “ PANELS AT GRANDE CACHE, BY R. GUEST.” Bottom left sticker, blue with black print, see artist bio.
Subject
landscape
forest fire
Robert Guest
Credit
Purchased from Robert Guest, Grande Cache, 2012
Catalogue Number
GuR.02.01
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1935 – 1950
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.408
Description
Yellow and green mountain slope covers foreground to above centre. Mountains in background, blue sky.
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Aspens at Massive
Date
1935 – 1950
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
30.7 x 30.7 cm
Description
Yellow and green mountain slope covers foreground to above centre. Mountains in background, blue sky.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
mountain
forest
autumn
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.408
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Cabin at Assiniboine

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1937 – 1940
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.02.050
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Cabin at Assiniboine
Date
1937 – 1940
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
40.8 x 50.8 cm
Subject
landscape
mountain
Canadian Rockies
forest
winter
architecture
rural
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.02.050
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Camp near Dease Lake, B.C.

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Artist
Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)
Date
1935
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
LaE.05.05
Description
General colour: pale pink, blue and green on white. In the lower third are sparse pine trees - to the right are two figures by a white tent and a camp fire. The white mountains pale in the distance. Pink and blue sky fill the top third.
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Artist
Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)
Title
Camp near Dease Lake, B.C.
Date
1935
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
24.4 x 35.2 cm
Description
General colour: pale pink, blue and green on white. In the lower third are sparse pine trees - to the right are two figures by a white tent and a camp fire. The white mountains pale in the distance. Pink and blue sky fill the top third.
Subject
landscape
forest
camp
Ernest Lamarque
Credit
Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971
Catalogue Number
LaE.05.05
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Artist
Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )
Date
1931
Medium
woodblock on rice paper
Catalogue Number
BeH.04.02
Description
A black and white woodcut with a foreground of a forest with fallen and leaning trees, a stream running first right and then finishing on the viewer’s left. The ground is littered with rocks. Beyond are some small pine trees, a rockwall with a water fall cascading down the rock face. Signature in m…
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Artist
Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )
Title
The Cascade
Date
1931
Medium
woodblock on rice paper
Dimensions
33.5 cm x 24.6 cm cm
Description
A black and white woodcut with a foreground of a forest with fallen and leaning trees, a stream running first right and then finishing on the viewer’s left. The ground is littered with rocks. Beyond are some small pine trees, a rockwall with a water fall cascading down the rock face. Signature in monogram HEB bottom rhc.
Subject
landscape
forest
water
H.E. Bergman
Credit
Gift of Norma Bergman, Calgary , 2010
Catalogue Number
BeH.04.02
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Artist
Edmee Moore (1908 – 1971, Canadian)
Date
1930
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
MoE.02.09
Description
Oil painting showing birch trees with mountains in the background. The painting is in a gilt wood frame.
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Artist
Edmee Moore (1908 – 1971, Canadian)
Title
Clump of Birches
Date
1930
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
19 x 24 cm
Description
Oil painting showing birch trees with mountains in the background. The painting is in a gilt wood frame.
Subject
landscape
mountain
forest
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
MoE.02.09
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A forest fire in the Rocky Mountains

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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
1890
Call Number
P
Published Date
1890
Physical Description
p.128, ill.
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Rocky Mountains, Canada
British Columbia
Forest fires
Notes
In The Dominion Illustrated [newspaper], vol.IV, no.86, (February 1890)
photograph on p.128, description on p.119 under "Our Engravings"
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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Artist
James Whaite
Date
prior to 1916
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
WhJ.05.01
Description
A mountain scene, left foreground is covered with logs and rocks on grass, a river bank, running from bottom right to lower left centre is a fast flowing river, lots of foliage on trees on riverbank, mountains rise behind riverbank, tree covered, clouds on mountains tops and in the sky.
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Artist
James Whaite
Title
Hope
Date
prior to 1916
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
62.5 x 44.1 cm
Description
A mountain scene, left foreground is covered with logs and rocks on grass, a river bank, running from bottom right to lower left centre is a fast flowing river, lots of foliage on trees on riverbank, mountains rise behind riverbank, tree covered, clouds on mountains tops and in the sky.
Subject
landscape, mountain
river
forest
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
WhJ.05.01
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If this tree could talk : what fire-scarred trees in the Rocky Mountain Trench reveal about the human use of burning long before European settlement

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15249
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2016
Author
Barnes, Trish
Publisher
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol. 1, 2016
Call Number
P
Author
Barnes, Trish
Publisher
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol. 1, 2016
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
p.20-21
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
British Columbia
Ecology
Environment
Forest fires
First Nations
Rocky Mountains, Canada
Accession Number
P2016 - 73,000 - 05
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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If this tree could talk : what fire-scarred trees in the Rocky Mountain Trench reveal about the human use of burning long before European settlement

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15400
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2017
Author
Barnes, Trish
Publisher
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol. 1, 2017
Call Number
P
Author
Barnes, Trish
Publisher
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol. 1, 2017
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
p.20-21
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
British Columbia
Ecology
Environment
Forest fires
First Nations
Rocky Mountains, Canada
Accession Number
P2017 - 73,000 - 05
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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