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- Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian) 557
- Peter or Catharine Whyte 148
- Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian) 87
- Edmee Moore (1908 – 1971, Canadian) 60
- Lorraine Gilbert 52
- Douglas Curran (1952 – , Canadian) 43
- Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British) 35
- Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian) 33
- Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)
- Dennis Burton (1933 – 2013, Canadian) 18
- Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian) 15
- Craig Richards (1955 – , Canadian) 13
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.36
- Description
- A herd of mountain sheep are mocing single file up a rocky slope, from centre bottom to right top, the slope covers two thirds of the foreground and is in quite good detail, the background has faint mountains.
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- Title
- Alarmed
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.0 x 36.0 cm
- Description
- A herd of mountain sheep are mocing single file up a rocky slope, from centre bottom to right top, the slope covers two thirds of the foreground and is in quite good detail, the background has faint mountains.
- Credit
- Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.36
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Anemone parviflora (Alpine Anenome)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.24
- Date
- 1885 – 1905
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.24
- Description
- Two plants with brown roots; large leaves; a white flower with yellow bud.
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- Title
- Anemone parviflora (Alpine Anenome)
- Date
- 1885 – 1905
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 15.0 cm
- Description
- Two plants with brown roots; large leaves; a white flower with yellow bud.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.24
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Animalia Capillary
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactunk.05.21
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1988
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.05.21
- Description
- Twelve sketches of animals, each washed with a single colour watercolour.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Animalia Capillary
- Date
- 1988
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 37.2 x 17.9 cm
- Description
- Twelve sketches of animals, each washed with a single colour watercolour.
- Subject
- animals, whimsey
- Credit
- Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.05.21
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- Date
- 1926
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.12
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Six antelope face right taking up the upper part of the picture. The lower half is bushes with a clear space in the lower right corner.
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- Title
- Antelope
- Date
- 1926
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.5 x 34.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Six antelope face right taking up the upper part of the picture. The lower half is bushes with a clear space in the lower right corner.
- Subject
- landscape, prairie
- animal, antelope
- Credit
- Gift of James (Mrs.) Brewster, Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.12
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The Battle of Cressy
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactunk.04.03
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1792
- Medium
- engraving on paper
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.04.03
- Description
- A black and white print showing a battle scene from a classical era with knights in armour. Script at the top reads “Engraved for Ashburton’s History of England” and the bottom reads “The Battle of Cressy” and “Published by W.&J. Stratfords No. 112 Helborn Hill, March 10, 1792”. A label on the back…
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- The Battle of Cressy
- Date
- 1792
- Medium
- engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- 18.0 x 28.5 cm
- Description
- A black and white print showing a battle scene from a classical era with knights in armour. Script at the top reads “Engraved for Ashburton’s History of England” and the bottom reads “The Battle of Cressy” and “Published by W.&J. Stratfords No. 112 Helborn Hill, March 10, 1792”. A label on the back paper reads “Johnson Art Galleries Limited Pictures Fine Framing. Montreal 634 St. Catherine West.”
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.04.03
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Battling Moose
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactruc.11.01
- Date
- prior to 1905
- Medium
- photoengraving on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.11.01
- Description
- Colour: greys as in a black and white photograph. At the waters edge in the center are two bull moose fighting. To the right, half way up in the background is a female moose looking on. Dead logs and grass fill the lower part of the picture.
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- Title
- Battling Moose
- Date
- prior to 1905
- Medium
- photoengraving on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.1 x 50.4 cm
- Description
- Colour: greys as in a black and white photograph. At the waters edge in the center are two bull moose fighting. To the right, half way up in the background is a female moose looking on. Dead logs and grass fill the lower part of the picture.
- Subject
- landscape
- animal, moose
- Credit
- Gift of W. J. Wright, Kamloops, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.11.01
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Bighorn Ram head
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactruc.03.09
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.03.09
- Description
- A finely detailed drawing of a ram's head, facing to the right of picture
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- Title
- Bighorn Ram head
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 29.0 x 22.5 cm
- Description
- A finely detailed drawing of a ram's head, facing to the right of picture
- Subject
- animal, mountain sheep
- ram
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.03.09
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- c. 1930
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.43
- Description
- grey stone sculpture of a sitting bird. Tail feathers and facial features inscribed.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Bird
- Date
- c. 1930
- Dimensions
- 3.0 x 3.5 cm
- Description
- grey stone sculpture of a sitting bird. Tail feathers and facial features inscribed.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.43
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.06
- Description
- ornately carved ivory sculpture of a man and a bird under a tree.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- The Bird Tree
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Dimensions
- 20.8 x 4.7 x 10.0 cm
- Description
- ornately carved ivory sculpture of a man and a bird under a tree.
- Subject
- figure, male
- animal
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.06
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.29
- Description
- One bull moose has head raised, facing to the left in centre right of picture; he is standing in marsh beside a small creek; the foreground is quite detailed with grass and shrubs, the background is lightly sketched in evergreen trees.
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- Title
- Bull Moose
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.5 x 39.5 cm
- Description
- One bull moose has head raised, facing to the left in centre right of picture; he is standing in marsh beside a small creek; the foreground is quite detailed with grass and shrubs, the background is lightly sketched in evergreen trees.
- Subject
- landscape, mountain
- animal, moose
- Credit
- Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.29
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The Canadian Pacific Railway
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactnow.04.02
- Artist
- William Notman (1826 – 1891)
- Date
- 1886
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- NoW.04.02
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- Artist
- William Notman (1826 – 1891)
- Title
- The Canadian Pacific Railway
- Date
- 1886
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 40 x 28.2 cm
- Credit
- Purchased from Prints Old and Rare, San Francisco, USA, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- NoW.04.02
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- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.01
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A male moose stands in snow facing right on the left side. Another male moose stands in the background on the right side in front of snow covered evergreens. Three tree trunks are in the upper left corner.
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- Title
- Friends Again
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 29.0 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A male moose stands in snow facing right on the left side. Another male moose stands in the background on the right side in front of snow covered evergreens. Three tree trunks are in the upper left corner.
- Subject
- landscape
- animal, moose
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy H. Wardle, Sidney, 1976
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.01
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- Date
- 1926
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.08
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Five mountain goats stand on a cliff that rises up the left side and out to the center. On the right side in the background, another mountain side rises to the right. In the upper center area, distant peaks can be seen faintly.
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- Title
- Goats
- Date
- 1926
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Five mountain goats stand on a cliff that rises up the left side and out to the center. On the right side in the background, another mountain side rises to the right. In the upper center area, distant peaks can be seen faintly.
- Credit
- Gift of James (Mrs.) Brewster, Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.08
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- Date
- 1926
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.27
- Description
- Same as: RuC.04.08. The left two-thirds of the picture is a rocky mountainside on which are 5 mountains goats, all facing to front and right; mountainside to right and mountains in background.
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- Title
- Goats
- Date
- 1926
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.0 x 36.5 cm
- Description
- Same as: RuC.04.08. The left two-thirds of the picture is a rocky mountainside on which are 5 mountains goats, all facing to front and right; mountainside to right and mountains in background.
- Credit
- Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.27
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- Date
- 1926
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.37
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Five mountain goats stand on a cliff that rises up the left side and out to the centre. On the right side in the background, another mountainside with trees on it rises to the right. In the upper center area, distant peaks can be seen faintly and a seemingly cloudy sky.
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- Title
- Goats
- Date
- 1926
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.5 x 29.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Five mountain goats stand on a cliff that rises up the left side and out to the centre. On the right side in the background, another mountainside with trees on it rises to the right. In the upper center area, distant peaks can be seen faintly and a seemingly cloudy sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- animal, mountain goat
- Credit
- Gift of Margaret Reid (Estate), 2008
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.04.37
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Kicking Horse Lake Looking East, Hector on the Canadian Pacific Railway
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactnow.18.01
- Artist
- William Notman (1826 – 1891)
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- photographic print on paper
- Catalogue Number
- NoW.18.01
- Description
- Mountain landscape with large lake dominating the centre. A small white building and storage tank [possibly a refueling station] can be seen on the far side of the lake. Train tracks run the width of foreground and seated figure [known to be Fredrick M. Bell-Smith] at easel in bottom right corner. …
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- Artist
- William Notman (1826 – 1891)
- Title
- Kicking Horse Lake Looking East, Hector on the Canadian Pacific Railway
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- photographic print on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.6 x 27.8 cm
- Description
- Mountain landscape with large lake dominating the centre. A small white building and storage tank [possibly a refueling station] can be seen on the far side of the lake. Train tracks run the width of foreground and seated figure [known to be Fredrick M. Bell-Smith] at easel in bottom right corner. Title typed in bottom left corner. Manufacturer’s mark “WM. NOTMAN & SON, MONTREAL” typed in bottom right.
- Subject
- mountains
- lake
- CPR
- Fredrick Bell-Smith
- Credit
- Gift of Mark Cullen, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- NoW.18.01
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- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.02.02
- Description
- General colour: blues and mauves, greens and browns in lower right. Lake and rocks fill lower half of the canvas left and right respectively. A glacier rises to the left from center of the lake and becomes mountain to the top of the canvas. There is sky in the upper right corner.
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- Title
- Lake McArthur
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 105.0 x 126.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: blues and mauves, greens and browns in lower right. Lake and rocks fill lower half of the canvas left and right respectively. A glacier rises to the left from center of the lake and becomes mountain to the top of the canvas. There is sky in the upper right corner.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- Credit
- Gift of Alfred Castle, Hawaii, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.02.02
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.02.04
- Description
- General colour: lower half - green, upper half - blues, purples. A lake fills lower half of canvas. There's a cluster of trees in the lower left corner.Half way up is the far shore of trees rising to mountains. The center of the canvas leads to distant mountain and sky. In the lower right corner ar…
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- Title
- Lake O'Hara
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.0 x 91.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: lower half - green, upper half - blues, purples. A lake fills lower half of canvas. There's a cluster of trees in the lower left corner.Half way up is the far shore of trees rising to mountains. The center of the canvas leads to distant mountain and sky. In the lower right corner are three rocks.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- Lake O'Hara
- Credit
- Purchased from Dorothy H. Wardle, Sidney, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.02.04
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Lobelia kalmii (Brook Lobelia)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.28
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.28
- Description
- A delicate painting of long green stems and long, thin leaves; with small purple flowers near top.
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- Title
- Lobelia kalmii (Brook Lobelia)
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.5 x 12.5 cm
- Description
- A delicate painting of long green stems and long, thin leaves; with small purple flowers near top.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.28
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Lychnis apetala (Nodding Lychnis/Campion)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.27
- Date
- 1885 – 1905
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.27
- Description
- A plant with a long root that spreads widely, small leaves at lower part of stem; atop each stem is a round, ribbed bulb with purple centres; to the viewer’s left of this is a smaller drawing of the same kind of plant with 2 stems and flowers.
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- Title
- Lychnis apetala (Nodding Lychnis/Campion)
- Date
- 1885 – 1905
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 24.5 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- A plant with a long root that spreads widely, small leaves at lower part of stem; atop each stem is a round, ribbed bulb with purple centres; to the viewer’s left of this is a smaller drawing of the same kind of plant with 2 stems and flowers.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.27
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