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- Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian) 243
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- Whyte, Catharine 22
- Whyte, Peter 21
- Robb Whyte, Catharine 18
- Robb, Russell, Jr. 16
- Robb, Edith Morse
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- White, Clifford 13
- Robb, Kitty 12
Bow Valley and Mount Borgeau
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactruc.02.11
- Date
- c. 1935
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.02.11
- Description
- A landscape shot with three mountains in the background. There is a pond in the middle of the painting. The trees visible are green and orange.
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- Title
- Bow Valley and Mount Borgeau
- Date
- c. 1935
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 39.5 x 49.0 cm
- Description
- A landscape shot with three mountains in the background. There is a pond in the middle of the painting. The trees visible are green and orange.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.02.11
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Letters to Mother [August - December 1939]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7453
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 56 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from August 1 to December 30, 1939. Topics include going on the annual Skyline Trail Hike to the Ptarmigan Valley in early August, day to day life, weather, painting/sketching [a mix of personal projects and…
- Date Range
- 1939
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 107
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Private record
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs
- Sous-Fonds
- M36
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 107
- GMD
- Private record
- Date Range
- 1939
- Physical Description
- 1.7 cm of textual records (93 pages ; 20 x 24.9 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 56 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from August 1 to December 30, 1939. Topics include going on the annual Skyline Trail Hike to the Ptarmigan Valley in early August, day to day life, weather, painting/sketching [a mix of personal projects and commissions done both at home and out in the Park], visits from friends and visitors, slide making, photography and cameras [including colour photography], events and people in Concord, minor repairs/projects to the house and property [including installing a new water heater on the second floor], updates on Dave White's health, radio programs [mostly operas and the news], the declaration of war on Germany in early September [as well as details pertaining to local recruitment efforts and general preparations], day trips to Lake Louise, wildlife, descriptions of meals, Edith going to the 1939 World's Fair in New York City [September], construction on the new addition to the house throughout October [including a new furnace room, bathroom, and dark room on the ground floor, extending the studio on the second floor, and facing the side of the house in stone], cleaning and household chores, errand trips to Calgary, books Catharine and Edith are reading, a large blizzard at the end of October, birthdays, various holidays [both Canadian and American], attending first aid classes at the school, putting together the annual Christmas card, and various other Christmas activities and parties.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. All typed letters are written on a single side of paper, hand-written letters are mostly double-sided. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981. 107-19 contains a sketch of a mushroom on the back of the first page. 107-36 contains a sketch of the Whyte compound and details of the new extention to Pete and Catharine's house.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- Robb, Edith Morse
- Robb, Russell, Jr.
- Robb, Kitty
- White, Annie
- White, David Mackintosh (Dave)
- White, Clifford
- White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.)
- White, Bubby
- White, Clifford J., Sr.
- Stockand, Cameron
- Stockand, Lila (White)
- Moore, Pearl
- Moore, Edmee
- Moore, Phil
- Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
- Simpson, Billie
- Simpson, Jimmy, Jr.
- Simpson, Mary (Hallock)
- Simpson, Margaret
- Ward, Sam
- Ward, Louise (Cis)
- Rungius, Carl
- Noble, George
- Pocette, Mark
- Bagley, Frederick A.
- Watson, Sir Norman
- Vaux, Mary
- Reid, Charles
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Art
- Artists
- Automobiles
- Backcountry skiing
- Banff
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Birds
- Birthday
- Books
- Businesses
- Children
- Christmas
- Cinema
- Community events
- Community life
- Construction
- Correspondence
- Family
- Family and personal life
- First Nations
- Home
- Hospital
- Hiking
- Indigenous Peoples
- Leisure
- Literature
- Mountain
- Mount Royal Hotel
- North West Mounted Police
- Num-Ti-Jah Lodge
- Painting
- Personal and Family Life
- Photography
- Post Office
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- RCMP
- Scenery
- Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Trains
- Transportation
- Travel
- Tunnel Mountain
- War
- Weather
- Wildlife
- Winter
- World War II
- WWII
- World's Fair
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Ptarmigan Valley
- Yoho National Park
- Banff National Park
- Calgary
- Alberta
- Concord
- Massachusetts
- Canada
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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On the Skyline
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactruc.04.13
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.13
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Central image is three bighorn sheep, standing on a ridge of rock which goes diagonally across the picture from lower left to half way up right. The sheep face right and look out. Mountains are in the background.
1 image
- Title
- On the Skyline
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.0 x 36.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Central image is three bighorn sheep, standing on a ridge of rock which goes diagonally across the picture from lower left to half way up right. The sheep face right and look out. Mountains are in the background.
- Credit
- Gift of Anne Harbison, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.13
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Above Timberline
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactruc.04.11
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.11
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Nine caribou wander across a rocky ridge in the foreground. One male caribou stands prominently left of center facing right. Mountain ranges diminish in the distance behind.
1 image
- Title
- Above Timberline
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 36.0 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Nine caribou wander across a rocky ridge in the foreground. One male caribou stands prominently left of center facing right. Mountain ranges diminish in the distance behind.
- Subject
- landscape, mountain
- animal, caribou
- Credit
- Gift of James (Mrs.) Brewster, Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.11
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Above Timberline
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactruc.04.32
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.32
- Description
- A herd of caribou (9 distinct) are moving to the right through centre of picture; the nearest is a bull; the foreground is rocky; mountain ranges in background. Written in pencil (by the artist) Above Timberline.
1 image
- Title
- Above Timberline
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.5 x 36.0 cm
- Description
- A herd of caribou (9 distinct) are moving to the right through centre of picture; the nearest is a bull; the foreground is rocky; mountain ranges in background. Written in pencil (by the artist) Above Timberline.
- Subject
- landscape, mountain
- animal, caribou
- Credit
- Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.32
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Among the Crags
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactruc.04.16
- Date
- 1935
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.16
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Three sheep fill the center foreground, one faces right, one faces right but looks out and a third on the left side faces out. Behind on the lower side of the rock pile are three more sheep. Beyond in the upper right are mountain slopes and mountain peaks and sky.
1 image
- Title
- Among the Crags
- Date
- 1935
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.6 x 27.4 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Three sheep fill the center foreground, one faces right, one faces right but looks out and a third on the left side faces out. Behind on the lower side of the rock pile are three more sheep. Beyond in the upper right are mountain slopes and mountain peaks and sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.16
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- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.09
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Central image is male elk on the right side facing left. Behind him facing left are three females. At the far left side in the distance is another male calling them. In the foreground shrubs and three little trees. In the background to the right are trees and to the left mou…
1 image
- Title
- Challenged
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 36.0 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Central image is male elk on the right side facing left. Behind him facing left are three females. At the far left side in the distance is another male calling them. In the foreground shrubs and three little trees. In the background to the right are trees and to the left mountains.
- Subject
- landscape, mountain
- animal, elk
- Credit
- Gift of James (Mrs.) Brewster, Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.09
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- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.28
- Description
- Same as RuC.04.09. 4 elk facing to the left, looking at another bull elk in the distance to centre left of picture, they are standing in tall grasses, small shrubs in bottom left, larger stand of evergreen centre right, a mountain range in background.r
1 image
- Title
- Challenged
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.0 x 36.0 cm
- Description
- Same as RuC.04.09. 4 elk facing to the left, looking at another bull elk in the distance to centre left of picture, they are standing in tall grasses, small shrubs in bottom left, larger stand of evergreen centre right, a mountain range in background.r
- Subject
- landscape, mountain
- animal, elk
- Credit
- Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.28
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil; graphite; charcoal on canvas; board
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.01.06 a,b
- Description
- (a) a painting in colours blue, brown. In a circular format, a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are snow-covered mountains in the background and blue sky.(b) a drawing in charcoal and pencil of the above painting: a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretc…
- Title
- Design for pin
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil; graphite; charcoal on canvas; board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- (a) a painting in colours blue, brown. In a circular format, a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are snow-covered mountains in the background and blue sky.(b) a drawing in charcoal and pencil of the above painting: a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are mountains in the background.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.01.06 a,b
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Evening on the Ram
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactruc.02.08
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.02.08
- Description
- Mountains in background, trees and grasses in foreground
1 image
- Title
- Evening on the Ram
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 21.5 x 26.5 cm
- Description
- Mountains in background, trees and grasses in foreground
- Subject
- landscape, mountain
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.02.08
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