Search Results - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abraham Lake #3

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgrl.01.07

Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Date: 2000 – 2000

Medium: oil on masonite board

Catalogue Number: Grl.01.07

Description: An oil sketch of a lake landscape. The primary colours used are green, grey, blue and brown. The sky is dominated with thick grey strokes of colour. Surrounding the water at the top and bottom are thick strokes of green. The blue of the water is a streak across the middle of the work. The artist’s …

1 image

Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Title: Abraham Lake #3

Date: 2000 – 2000

Medium: oil on masonite board

Dimensions: 40.5 x 40.5 cm

Description: An oil sketch of a lake landscape. The primary colours used are green, grey, blue and brown. The sky is dominated with thick grey strokes of colour. Surrounding the water at the top and bottom are thick strokes of green. The blue of the water is a streak across the middle of the work. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in green paint.

Subject: landscape; lake

Credit: Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006

Catalogue Number: Grl.01.07

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Abraham Lake/East

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgrl.01.17

Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Date: 2001 – 2001

Medium: oil on masonite board

Catalogue Number: GrL.01.17

Description: An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are blue, orange, red and brown. The image is composed of a mountain range in the background, with a body of water and a segment of land in the foreground. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in grey paint. Au verso, written in black…

1 image

Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Title: Abraham Lake/East

Date: 2001 – 2001

Medium: oil on masonite board

Dimensions: 40 x 40.5 cm

Description: An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are blue, orange, red and brown. The image is composed of a mountain range in the background, with a body of water and a segment of land in the foreground. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in grey paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the trhc, “45/W”.

Subject: landscape; mountain; lake

Credit: Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006

Catalogue Number: GrL.01.17

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Airplane Lake, British Columbia

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlae.05.02

Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1936

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.02

Description: General colour: light green, brown. The lake sits in the lower third of the picture between two points of grassy treed land. One comes from the left side across the bottom, the other from the right side, part way up to right of center. A brown mountain range rises up from the lake and to the right …

1 image

Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Airplane Lake, British Columbia

Date: 1936

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 26.9 x 43.5 cm

Description: General colour: light green, brown. The lake sits in the lower third of the picture between two points of grassy treed land. One comes from the left side across the bottom, the other from the right side, part way up to right of center. A brown mountain range rises up from the lake and to the right side. Sky beyond with two birds flying center and left.

Subject: landscape; mountain; lake; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.02

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Aloha Tower, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.047

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.047

Description: Colour: blue, white, grey. At the right side is a dock. Two boats are tied up at the end of it. Across the picture on the other side of the lake are low buildings and to the left a buildng with a tower on the corner of it. Dark green slopes rise up to the right from behind. Mountains can be seen ju…

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Aloha Tower, Hawaii

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, white, grey. At the right side is a dock. Two boats are tied up at the end of it. Across the picture on the other side of the lake are low buildings and to the left a buildng with a tower on the corner of it. Dark green slopes rise up to the right from behind. Mountains can be seen just behind them. The sky is layers of grey and fills the upper half.

Subject: landscape; architecture; urban; mountain; seascape; transportation; Pacific; Hawaii

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.047

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Andalsnes, Norway

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.008

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.008

Description: A lake is in foreground, some green foliage in immediate foreground. Houses jut out into the lake at left centre. A green mountain rises abruptly at centre left to top left with blue and white mountains to the right. A cloudy sky is top third .

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Andalsnes, Norway

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35.0 cm

Description: A lake is in foreground, some green foliage in immediate foreground. Houses jut out into the lake at left centre. A green mountain rises abruptly at centre left to top left with blue and white mountains to the right. A cloudy sky is top third .

Subject: landscape; Norway; mountains; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.008

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

At Lake Minnewanka

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcmd.05.05

Artist: Doris Cormie

Date: 1938

Medium: painting on paper

Catalogue Number: CmD.05.05

Description: A watercolour landscape painting of mountains and a lake. There are three grey mountains in the background and behind them is a cloudless blue sky. In the foreground is a blue-green lake. On the bottom right, part of the shore with three large rocks, is visible. In the centre at the bottom, a few b…

1 image

Artist: Doris Cormie

Title: At Lake Minnewanka

Date: 1938

Medium: painting on paper

Dimensions: 26.0 x 37.0 cm

Description: A watercolour landscape painting of mountains and a lake. There are three grey mountains in the background and behind them is a cloudless blue sky. In the foreground is a blue-green lake. On the bottom right, part of the shore with three large rocks, is visible. In the centre at the bottom, a few branches and two logs are breaking through the water. On the left side a large boulder sits in the water. In the middle ground there is forest along the lake shore. The forest starts out of frame on the right and extends just over halfway across the painting. Behind the forest on the left are two green hills. Greys, blues, greens and brown are the primary colours used. The artist signature is in the bottom rhc. Au verso, written in pencil along the bottom edge is, “At Lake Minnewanka aug 28/38 Doris Cormie” and also in pencil in the centre of the paper is “27” with a circle around it. Just right of centre near the top is written, “5334”.

Subject: landscape; lake; mountains; Doris Cormie

Credit: Gift of Barry Hunter Gillis, Richmond, 2006

Catalogue Number: CmD.05.05

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Bali, Terraced Rice Paddies

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.493

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.493

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bali, Terraced Rice Paddies

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35. cm

Subject: landscape; Pacific

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.493

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Balinese Man

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.393

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.393

Description: A portrait of a man. He is to the left of centre. He is wearing a brown scarf tied on his head and has a long black mustache. The painting is unfinished.

1 image

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Balinese Man

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.2 x 35.0 cm

Description: A portrait of a man. He is to the left of centre. He is wearing a brown scarf tied on his head and has a long black mustache. The painting is unfinished.

Subject: portrait; male; Pacific

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.393

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Banyan Tree, Bali

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.023

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.023

Description: Colour: brown, green. Two banyon trees fill the outer edges of the picture and the foreground. Behind n the distance are a few figures and a building to the left. Bits of sky can be seen through the branches of the trees.

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Banyan Tree, Bali

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35 x 27.5 cm

Description: Colour: brown, green. Two banyon trees fill the outer edges of the picture and the foreground. Behind n the distance are a few figures and a building to the left. Bits of sky can be seen through the branches of the trees.

Subject: landscape; architecture; figure; group; Pacific

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.023

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Beach at Makapu'u Point, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.042

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1936

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.042

Description: Colour: yellow, grey, green. The lower half is sand and rocks. There is green water to the right and a large dark mountain side to the left. Above the horizon are two mountain islands and grey and green sky beyond.

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Beach at Makapu'u Point, Hawaii

Date: 1936

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: yellow, grey, green. The lower half is sand and rocks. There is green water to the right and a large dark mountain side to the left. Above the horizon are two mountain islands and grey and green sky beyond.

Subject: seascape; mountain; Pacific; Hawaii

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.042

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Bermuda Beach

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.328

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas on cardboard

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.328

Description: Study of water and waves meeting the beach, very high sky-line, tlc pile of rocks, the beach is on the left and the water is on the right.

1 image

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Bermuda Beach

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas on cardboard

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.7 cm

Description: Study of water and waves meeting the beach, very high sky-line, tlc pile of rocks, the beach is on the left and the water is on the right.

Subject: seascape; Pacific

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.328

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Boat on Ocean, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.576

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.576

Description: A painting of a body of water with grey clouds above and a mountain in the right background. One in a set of 7 paintings of Hawaii.

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Boat on Ocean, Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.6 cm

Description: A painting of a body of water with grey clouds above and a mountain in the right background. One in a set of 7 paintings of Hawaii.

Subject: seascape; Pacific; Hawaii; boat; cloudscape

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.576

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Building Sampans at Kewalo Basin, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.030

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.030

Description: Colour: brown, blue. A building with vague outlines of boats and figures in front of it, fills the left side of the picture. To the right is a large boat and hills and sky beyond.

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Building Sampans at Kewalo Basin, Hawaii

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: brown, blue. A building with vague outlines of boats and figures in front of it, fills the left side of the picture. To the right is a large boat and hills and sky beyond.

Subject: landscape; Pacific; architecture; transportation; Hawaii

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.030

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Burning Cane Sugar, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.050

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.050

Description: Colour: green, grey blue. The lower third is a green field with a dark stream running zigzag through it from the lower right to the left. Vague buildings and trees can be seen on the horizon and at the right, a brown slope. The other two thirds is grey clouds with a patch of blue in the upper left …

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Burning Cane Sugar, Hawaii

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: green, grey blue. The lower third is a green field with a dark stream running zigzag through it from the lower right to the left. Vague buildings and trees can be seen on the horizon and at the right, a brown slope. The other two thirds is grey clouds with a patch of blue in the upper left corner.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Pacific; Hawaii

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.050

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Cathedral Mountain

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.434

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.434

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.1 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.434

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Cathedral Mountain from Opabin

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.432

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.432

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain from Opabin

Date: 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.8 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.432

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Cathedral Mountain, Lake O'Hara

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.309

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.309

Description: Group of six trees left side, tree on a rock brc, lake lower quarter, row of trees behind lake, Cathedral Mountain centre, blue sky across top with a patch of white to either side of the peak.

1 image

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain, Lake O'Hara

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Group of six trees left side, tree on a rock brc, lake lower quarter, row of trees behind lake, Cathedral Mountain centre, blue sky across top with a patch of white to either side of the peak.