Travel Letters: Canadian Rockies, Hiking + Painting

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{top of page:"6"} art exhibition and had a most amusing time. Calgary is quite proud of her artists. Mr. Leighton, an English artist is really a good water colorist but every one in Calgary who studies under him paints in the same way the same subjects. We didn't want to exhibit with them but when Gwen Hutton wrote and asked if we would like to exhibit with a group of artists who didn't paint in the Leighton manner but were very serious about their work we didnt know what to do. Lots of people thought we should send an Indians d..m?, but Pete was slow about answering the letter and then Gwen was up here and didn't get it until two days before the pictures were to be

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{top center:"2"} [?]. So we planned to take our two Indian [?] which are up here at the hotel. However the [?] material didn't come and we had nothing to put in it's place and so decided, we just wouldn't send anything to Calgary and when we saw the exhibition we hauled? our lucky stars alright. Nu? Reupies? had sent one paintings [?] wutg tge Calgary thinks it looked terribly Like a good picutres [?] badly [?] [?] Independent [?] at the [?] in Boston and when we saw the group we would have exhibited with we [?] [?] to think how we lead escaped? If you thought Paureu? Haires? paintings were awful you should have seen these. Qwen? Hutton's were the worst too {written correction below} Hutton'

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{top center:"8"} We saw a photograph of one of hers but of course the color didn't show. The worst of it was if we had [?[ with them we might have been identified with their group. I guees there must be a good Lord looking over us or someting for when we got back [?] Bauf? we found that some poeple were interested in our Indian portraits and had made inquires. However they were bust playing golf and when we came up there this afternoon they were just checking out. Dorothy White caught them just in time and Pete went [?] to the house with them and they were crazy about the [?] over the fireplace and also liked the portrait of Hector?. Had we had a pair they might have taken them but

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Logo [top left corner, crest shaped black and white reading CANADIAN PACIFIC BANFF SPRINGS HOTEL small round drawing of man with headdress, BANFF ALBERTA CANADA below crest] {top center: 9.} they have given Pete a commission to paint a pair of portraits of an Indiant [&] Squaw looking at each other. [?] quarters and want them for their hunting lodge in [?]. Isn't that pretty good [?] for a depression. They are to be finished by October.

Madame Pauet went to the Art exhibition with us and as Pete was taking to two of the artists who had painted some of the worst modern paintings she came in and never thinking who the two men were [?] [?] some of the awfuk things in the [?] room I [?] hard and just then the lights went out and we were left in total darkness. We decided to leave

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{top center} 10 and come back later, and it saved Pete for he was getting so involved in saying the right thing to the two men.

We had decided to go home right after seeing that everyone [?] went back saw Lila? who was to leave the hosptial the next day then to the hotel where we checked out as we though if we ate at a tea room we wouldn't see any one we knew and so not become involved. We ran into Ethel Knight who was going to eat with us when we were getting into the care Paddy Ryan come along? and of course we ended [?] up [?] his. room and seeing [?] night and a lot of other cowboys. They really are an awfully nice lot of boys and not a but the type we would expect to

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