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The Big Hill, Cathedral Mountain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.431

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: The Big Hill, Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1930 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.8 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.431

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Bill Neish

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.10

Description: A portrait of a man, facing in three quarter profile to the left. He wears a cowboy hat and a knotted scarf around his neck. Inscribed at the bottom left “Bill Nish Warden”, signed “Glyde” at bottom right. On back “Bow Lake, 1936 with Reg Harvey.”

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Bill Neish

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Description: A portrait of a man, facing in three quarter profile to the left. He wears a cowboy hat and a knotted scarf around his neck. Inscribed at the bottom left “Bill Nish Warden”, signed “Glyde” at bottom right. On back “Bow Lake, 1936 with Reg Harvey.”

Subject: Bill Neish; portrait; warden

Credit: Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.10

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Bill Neish's Horse 1936

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: 1936

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.01

Description: General colour: brown on white. A horse saddled and carrying a rifle, saddle bags, and another case. Stands facing left. His ears are perked. Around the edges are notes by the artist regarding colouration.

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Bill Neish's Horse 1936

Date: 1936

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 28.0 x 38.0 cm

Description: General colour: brown on white. A horse saddled and carrying a rifle, saddle bags, and another case. Stands facing left. His ears are perked. Around the edges are notes by the artist regarding colouration.

Subject: animal; horse

Credit: Gift of Helen Collinson, Edmonton, 1974

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.01

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Boat on Ocean, Hawaii

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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.

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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

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Boats, Wharf at Banff

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Artist: Clifford Foard Robinson (1916 – 1992, Canadian)

Date: c. 1939

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: RbC.05.01

Description: Close up view of a small dock with 6 small row boats moored in the water next too it. Two additional boats (row or canoes) are upside down on the dock. In the foreground are grasses and a plank at left leading from bank to dock. The background has a grassy bank. Faint “C.R” in lower right corner.

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Artist: Clifford Foard Robinson (1916 – 1992, Canadian)

Title: Boats, Wharf at Banff

Date: c. 1939

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 23.0 x 30.0 cm

Description: Close up view of a small dock with 6 small row boats moored in the water next too it. Two additional boats (row or canoes) are upside down on the dock. In the foreground are grasses and a plank at left leading from bank to dock. The background has a grassy bank. Faint “C.R” in lower right corner.

Subject: boats; Banff; canoes; rowboats

Credit: Gift of Ron Robinson, Nelson, 2023

Catalogue Number: RbC.05.01

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Book Watercolour

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Artist: Unknown Fukamizu

Date: 1930

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: FuU.05.01

Description: An accordian-style bound book with green brocade silk cover. A piece of beige silk edged in gold is at the upper left of the cover and has Japanese characters printed on it. The cover pages are flecked with gold. Inside the first two pages have Japanese text that has been partially translated into …

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Artist: Unknown Fukamizu

Title: Book Watercolour

Date: 1930

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 32.5 x 24.5 cm

Description: An accordian-style bound book with green brocade silk cover. A piece of beige silk edged in gold is at the upper left of the cover and has Japanese characters printed on it. The cover pages are flecked with gold. Inside the first two pages have Japanese text that has been partially translated into English in pen. The english reads “Artist Fukamiza” “Mr. J.E. Brown” “Canada Association”. Inside are paintings of people (mostly women) and landcapes, all with black and red stamps on one page in Japanese. The months of the year are written in pencil in bottom right corners - in order.

Subject: Japan; landscapes; portraits; months

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

Catalogue Number: FuU.05.01

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Bourgeau Range

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.187

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bourgeau Range

Date: 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.8 x 35.5 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain, Bourgeau Range

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.187

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Bow Falls, Banff

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Date: c. 1941

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: ShM.04.07

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Title: Bow Falls, Banff

Date: c. 1941

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 9.7 x 12.9 cm

Subject: landscape; mountain; waterfall

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1982

Catalogue Number: ShM.04.07

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Bow Glacier

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

Date: 1935 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.033

Description: Bow Glacier and Lake.

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

Title: Bow Glacier

Date: 1935 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Bow Glacier and Lake.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Bow Glacier; Bow Lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.033

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Bow Lake

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

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.004

Description: Meadow scene of orange, blues and green colours in the foreground. Small patches of evergreens are visible. Bow Lake and shore beyond the meadow.

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

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Meadow scene of orange, blues and green colours in the foreground. Small patches of evergreens are visible. Bow Lake and shore beyond the meadow.

Subject: landscape, Canadian Rockies; Bow Lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.004

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Bow Lake

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

Date: 1935 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.050

Description: Bow Lake at base of mountain. Creek flows from bottom of image to lake. Trees in foreground.

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

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1935 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.8 x 28.0 cm

Description: Bow Lake at base of mountain. Creek flows from bottom of image to lake. Trees in foreground.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Bow Lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.050

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.17

Description: General colour: teal green lake, purple tan mountains, grey clouds. Lower right corner there is a group of scraggly trees on rock. The lake fills the lower third. Two bars of sand and grass come in from either side. The mountains sweep up to bluestery clouds which come down over the peeks.

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 33.9 x 44.1 cm

Description: General colour: teal green lake, purple tan mountains, grey clouds. Lower right corner there is a group of scraggly trees on rock. The lake fills the lower third. Two bars of sand and grass come in from either side. The mountains sweep up to bluestery clouds which come down over the peeks.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.17

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Bow Panorama

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

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.039

Description: Bow Lake in foreground with panorama of Crowfoot Mountain, Crowfoot Glacier, and Bow Peak

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

Title: Bow Panorama

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 14.0 x 35.0 cm

Description: Bow Lake in foreground with panorama of Crowfoot Mountain, Crowfoot Glacier, and Bow Peak

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Crowfoot Glacier; Crowfoot Moutain; Bow Peak; Bow Lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.039

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Bow Valley

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.347

Description: A line of yellow trees in foreground behind which is a row of darker green trees, behind which is a blue-green hill, behind hill is a mountain range with snow in the centre of sketch, the sky is light blue and cloudless.

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

Title: Bow Valley

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 19.9 x 24.4 cm

Description: A line of yellow trees in foreground behind which is a row of darker green trees, behind which is a blue-green hill, behind hill is a mountain range with snow in the centre of sketch, the sky is light blue and cloudless.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.347

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Bow Valley and Mount Borgeau

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

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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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

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.

Subject: landscape, mountain; Bow Valley; mountain, Mount Borgeau

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: RuC.02.11

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Building Sampans at Kewalo Basin, Hawaii

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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.

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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

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Bungalow Camp at Yoho, Whiskey Falls

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.034

Description: Colour: green, blue, brown. In the lower third there are numerous small cabins clustered in amongst trees and grass at the base of a mountain which on the right side is grassy slopes with a stream running down a crevice. On the left are trees becoming more blue as they go into the distance and up t…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bungalow Camp at Yoho, Whiskey Falls

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 39.5 x 49.9 cm

Description: Colour: green, blue, brown. In the lower third there are numerous small cabins clustered in amongst trees and grass at the base of a mountain which on the right side is grassy slopes with a stream running down a crevice. On the left are trees becoming more blue as they go into the distance and up the mountain. Beyond in the upper left corner is a purple mountain face and clouds with a patch of blue upper center.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; architecture; rural; camp

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.034

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Burning Cane Sugar, Hawaii

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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 …

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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.