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Banff Hotel, Alberta

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Artist
B. E. Neville
Date
prior to 1991
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
NeB.05.01
Description
The foreground is vegetation, rocks with coniferous trees up to tlc. Centre of picture is a multi-roofed building. Background is mountain range and grey sky.
Artist
B. E. Neville
Title
Banff Hotel, Alberta
Date
prior to 1991
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
22.0 x 34.9 cm
Description
The foreground is vegetation, rocks with coniferous trees up to tlc. Centre of picture is a multi-roofed building. Background is mountain range and grey sky.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
building, Banff Springs Hotel
mountains
forest
Credit
Gift of Jon Whyte, Banff, 1992
Catalogue Number
NeB.05.01
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Artist
Charles Émile Jacque (1813 – 1894, French)
Date
1850 – 1890
Medium
etching on paper
Catalogue Number
JqC.04.01
Description
Label on paper backing from Frederick Keppel & Co., Inc. New York La Bergere, original etching by Ch. Jacque. signed proof very rare scene of shepherd resting against tree, two grazing cows. Signed on paper brc Ch. Jaque.
Artist
Charles Émile Jacque (1813 – 1894, French)
Title
La Bergere
Date
1850 – 1890
Medium
etching on paper
Dimensions
24.9 x 19.2 cm
Description
Label on paper backing from Frederick Keppel & Co., Inc. New York La Bergere, original etching by Ch. Jacque. signed proof very rare scene of shepherd resting against tree, two grazing cows. Signed on paper brc Ch. Jaque.
Subject
landscape, forest
animal, bovine
figure, male, shepherd
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
JqC.04.01
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Artist
Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)
Date
2001 – 2001
Medium
oil on masonite board
Catalogue Number
GrL.01.18
Description
An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours are white, blue, purple and green. The top of the image is blue, with grey clouds. The mountains are represented in the centre of the image in tones of purple, white and blue. The bottom third of the image is a mixture of purple and green. …
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Artist
Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)
Title
Bow Lake Study #5
Date
2001 – 2001
Medium
oil on masonite board
Dimensions
35.6 x 45.7 cm
Description
An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours are white, blue, purple and green. The top of the image is blue, with grey clouds. The mountains are represented in the centre of the image in tones of purple, white and blue. The bottom third of the image is a mixture of purple and green. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in grey paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “45/T”.
Subject
landscape
mountain
forest
Bow Lake
Credit
Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006
Catalogue Number
GrL.01.18
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[Bow River Forest Reserve]

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Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Published Date
1965
Publisher
Dept. of Lands, Forests
Call Number
C2-11.2a
Publisher
Dept. of Lands, Forests
Published Date
1965
Physical Description
1 map : col
Scale
Scale: 1 inch : 3 miles
Altitude tints
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Subjects
Bow River Forest Reserve
Notes
C2-11.2b - 1970 reprint - Accn. 3000
Accession Number
718
Call Number
C2-11.2a
Collection
Archives Library
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Artist
Jewelia Margueritta Cameroon
Date
1997 – 1998
Medium
photograph on paper
Catalogue Number
CaJ.18.02
Description
Photogravure print of trees and forest at close proximity. Shorter vegetation and thin pale tree trunks are visible in foreground. More dense forest behind.
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Artist
Jewelia Margueritta Cameroon
Title
Bugaboos
Date
1997 – 1998
Medium
photograph on paper
Description
Photogravure print of trees and forest at close proximity. Shorter vegetation and thin pale tree trunks are visible in foreground. More dense forest behind.
Subject
landscape
forest
Credit
Gift of Jewelia Margueritta Cameroon, Hollywood, USA, 1998
Catalogue Number
CaJ.18.02
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A Bundle of Hemlocks

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Artist
Lorraine Gilbert
Date
1988 – 1994
Medium
photograph on paper
Catalogue Number
GiL.18.52
Description
Photograph of 25 seedlings placed against a photo backdrop. Photograph taken at the tree-planting camp in Invermere, B.C.
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Artist
Lorraine Gilbert
Title
A Bundle of Hemlocks
Date
1988 – 1994
Medium
photograph on paper
Dimensions
20” x 24” cm
Description
Photograph of 25 seedlings placed against a photo backdrop. Photograph taken at the tree-planting camp in Invermere, B.C.
Subject
tree-planting
forest
camp
British Columbia
environmentalism
Canadian
nature
Credit
Gift of Lorraine Gilbert, Ottawa, 2014
Catalogue Number
GiL.18.52
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Artist
Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian)
Date
1924
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
JaA.03.06
Description
Pencil sketch of foothills with mountain range in background. A river indicated in foreground flows from left bottom corner to right, brc is river bank. Light and heavy pencil lines with shading, indicating trees and hills. Colour notes throughout. Drawing made on light sketchbook paper, serra…
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Artist
Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian)
Title
Burnt Wood
Date
1924
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
20.7 x 27.8 cm
Description
Pencil sketch of foothills with mountain range in background. A river indicated in foreground flows from left bottom corner to right, brc is river bank. Light and heavy pencil lines with shading, indicating trees and hills. Colour notes throughout. Drawing made on light sketchbook paper, serrated top edge, rounded corners bl and br.
Subject
landscape
foothills
forest
Credit
Gift of Naomi Jackson Groves, Ottawa, 1989
Catalogue Number
JaA.03.06
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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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Canmore, Alberta 1979

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Artist
Lawrence Chrismas (1941 – , Canadian)
Date
1979
Medium
silver gelatin on paper
Catalogue Number
ChL.18.01
Description
A black and white photographic positive, trees and the forest floor are the main focus of the picture, mountains are barely visible through the clouds in the background
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Artist
Lawrence Chrismas (1941 – , Canadian)
Title
Canmore, Alberta 1979
Date
1979
Medium
silver gelatin on paper
Dimensions
19.0 x 24.3 cm
Description
A black and white photographic positive, trees and the forest floor are the main focus of the picture, mountains are barely visible through the clouds in the background
Subject
landscape, forest
mountain
Credit
Purchased from Ron Brown, Jasper, 1982
Catalogue Number
ChL.18.01
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