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Honolulu 1934 [II]

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: ink; watercolour

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.287

Description: Watercolour and ink drawing of many people on a beach. A man in the right of foreground lies on his back suntanning. A larger woman in a pink bathing suit and blue cap, and blue floater in her right had. She wears blue sandals and gestures to someone farther down the beach. To the right a man in a…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Honolulu 1934 [II]

Date: 1934

Medium: ink; watercolour

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35.5 cm

Description: Watercolour and ink drawing of many people on a beach. A man in the right of foreground lies on his back suntanning. A larger woman in a pink bathing suit and blue cap, and blue floater in her right had. She wears blue sandals and gestures to someone farther down the beach. To the right a man in a hat is putting on his blue pants. Other people are sun tanning, sitting, or playing in the midground. In the background, people are in the water and there is a ship on the horizon.

Subject: beach; leisure; sunbathing; Hawaii; Honolulu

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.287

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Hoodoos

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

Date: c. 1940

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.05.03

Description: Hoodoos tower over what is possibly the Bow River. Three large hoodoos stand on a bluff overlooking the river beyond them. Several more hoodoos are visible further along this same bluff. The area in front of the hoodoos is mainly flat with some rolling to the ground. The river flows through the…

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

Title: Hoodoos

Date: c. 1940

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: Hoodoos tower over what is possibly the Bow River. Three large hoodoos stand on a bluff overlooking the river beyond them. Several more hoodoos are visible further along this same bluff. The area in front of the hoodoos is mainly flat with some rolling to the ground. The river flows through the watercolour, the larger hoodoos partly blocking the the visibility of the river. Coniferous trees are seen below the hoodoos along the river. Everything is painted in soft washes of sand, green and blue.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; hoodoos

Credit: Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997

Catalogue Number: GyH.05.03

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In the Rockies

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1936

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.05.10

Description: The painting is on heavy, brownish paper. The foreground is green, lower right are rocks and a rocky side of a mountain. Blue mountains are evident in background. The top two thirds of the painting is sky, slight washes indicate soft white clouds. Signed brc.

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: In the Rockies

Date: 1936

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 23.5 x 26.0 cm

Description: The painting is on heavy, brownish paper. The foreground is green, lower right are rocks and a rocky side of a mountain. Blue mountains are evident in background. The top two thirds of the painting is sky, slight washes indicate soft white clouds. Signed brc.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Purchased from Sotheby Parke Bernet (Canada) Ltd, Toronto, 1985

Catalogue Number: PhW.05.10

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Ink Leaves

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Artist: Kotani (or, Odani) Kingaku

Date: 1883 – 1883

Medium: drawing on paper

Catalogue Number: KiO.03.01

Description: an ink wash drawing of four leaves. There are 2 different types of leaves, one type with a stem and many branches; the other with a stem down the middle and two sides. There is writing along the rs.

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Artist: Kotani (or, Odani) Kingaku

Title: Ink Leaves

Date: 1883 – 1883

Medium: drawing on paper

Dimensions: 32.5 x 35.5 cm

Description: an ink wash drawing of four leaves. There are 2 different types of leaves, one type with a stem and many branches; the other with a stem down the middle and two sides. There is writing along the rs.

Subject: botanical; leaves

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

Catalogue Number: KiO.03.01

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Japanese Woman and Child

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Artist: Watanabe Bunzo (1853 – 1942, Japanese)

Date: 1882

Medium: ink and colour on paper

Catalogue Number: BuW.05.01

Description: Frontispiece Japan Day by Day Volume I by Edward S. Morse. A farmyard scene. A woman wearing a grey kimono, blue sash, carries a baby on her back, he is dressed in blue and red and has a small kite in his left hand. She is looking down at a rooster who with a hen behind him are looking at three egg…

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Artist: Watanabe Bunzo (1853 – 1942, Japanese)

Title: Japanese Woman and Child

Date: 1882

Medium: ink and colour on paper

Dimensions: 36.1 x 25.2 cm

Description: Frontispiece Japan Day by Day Volume I by Edward S. Morse. A farmyard scene. A woman wearing a grey kimono, blue sash, carries a baby on her back, he is dressed in blue and red and has a small kite in his left hand. She is looking down at a rooster who with a hen behind him are looking at three eggs on the ground. Five figures in background, houses to right centre, a snow-capped mountain is in background, sky is blue with yellowish clouds. Written on back: Mrs. Russell Robb Concord, Mass.

Subject: farmyard; Mount Fujijama; buildings; people

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

Catalogue Number: BuW.05.01

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Landscape (Rocky Mountains)

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Artist: John Arthur Fraser (1838 – 1898, English)

Date: 1886

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: FsJ.05.01

Description: Flat body of water in foreground surrounded by plants. Large rounded snow-covered peak in background with smaller peaks behind.

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Artist: John Arthur Fraser (1838 – 1898, English)

Title: Landscape (Rocky Mountains)

Date: 1886

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 23.5 x 33.7 cm

Description: Flat body of water in foreground surrounded by plants. Large rounded snow-covered peak in background with smaller peaks behind.

Subject: mountains; Mount Baker?

Credit: Gift of Robyn L Fulton, 2023

Catalogue Number: FsJ.05.01

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Mara Lake

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Artist: Luke Orton Lindoe (1913 – 2000, Canadian)

Date: c. 1940

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LiL.05.01

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Artist: Luke Orton Lindoe (1913 – 2000, Canadian)

Title: Mara Lake

Date: c. 1940

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 54.3 x 60.8 cm

Subject: landscape; lake

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

Catalogue Number: LiL.05.01

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Marble Halls

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: 1880

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.45

Description: Scene of a valley with outcroppings of dark rust/red rocks to the right and forground right, trees to the left middle, and mountains in the distance.

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Marble Halls

Date: 1880

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 13.5 x 14 cm

Description: Scene of a valley with outcroppings of dark rust/red rocks to the right and forground right, trees to the left middle, and mountains in the distance.

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1986

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.45

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McFarlane's Flat, Halfway River

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

Date: 1934

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.60

Description: Foreground flat brown and green vegetation with tepee poles mid-left, beyond a low building viewer’s right. Trees and blue foothills/mountain viewer’s left, a hill with sparse trees viewer’s right. A dark cloudy sky above.

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

Title: McFarlane's Flat, Halfway River

Date: 1934

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 34.3 x 48.4 cm

Description: Foreground flat brown and green vegetation with tepee poles mid-left, beyond a low building viewer’s right. Trees and blue foothills/mountain viewer’s left, a hill with sparse trees viewer’s right. A dark cloudy sky above.

Subject: landscape; mountains; buildings; teepee poles; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.60

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Merry Christmas

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1939 – 1945

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.421

Description: Three men under an umbrella. Left man holds the umbrella, centre man holds a camera, and right man hold a FRAGILE suitcase labeled RCAF TOFINO

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Merry Christmas

Date: 1939 – 1945

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 25.2 x 17.5 cm

Description: Three men under an umbrella. Left man holds the umbrella, centre man holds a camera, and right man hold a FRAGILE suitcase labeled RCAF TOFINO

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.421

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A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.773

Description: Peter is taking a nap on three logs that have three squirrels on the top, three birds rest on his body. At his feet there is a stump with an axe in it, with three more birds watching Peter and beside the stump there is a bear. Peter has comic “z’s” coming up from his body where in a conversation bu…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 10.0 x 16.0 cm

Description: Peter is taking a nap on three logs that have three squirrels on the top, three birds rest on his body. At his feet there is a stump with an axe in it, with three more birds watching Peter and beside the stump there is a bear. Peter has comic “z’s” coming up from his body where in a conversation bubble he describes his dream of sitting at a table with Catharine around a meal. Written along the top edge “TO MOTHER ROBB FROM PETER” and along the bottom edge “A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR”

Subject: Christmas card; New year; logs; axe; stump; bear; birds; squirrels; man; sleeping; coupe; woman; mean; chair; table

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.773

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Mount Edith

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Artist: Doris Cormie

Date: 1938

Medium: painting on paper

Catalogue Number: CmD.05.06

Description: A watercolour painting of a mountain landscape with a lake. A distinct and pointed Mt. Edith right of centre in the background dominates this painting. The mountain is beige with green and grey. Behind the mountain is a blue cloudless sky. To the left of Mt. Edith is a mountain range extending out …

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Artist: Doris Cormie

Title: Mount Edith

Date: 1938

Medium: painting on paper

Dimensions: 30.0 x 40.0 cm

Description: A watercolour painting of a mountain landscape with a lake. A distinct and pointed Mt. Edith right of centre in the background dominates this painting. The mountain is beige with green and grey. Behind the mountain is a blue cloudless sky. To the left of Mt. Edith is a mountain range extending out of frame and on the right is the side of another mountain leading out of frame. In the middle ground is a short line of shrubs and trees with two tall pine trees on the far right. In the foreground is an indigo and blue lake with the shore visible along the bottom edge, predominately on the right side. Blue, purple, green, grey and beige are the main colours used. The artist signature is at the bottom right. Au verso, written in pencil along the bottom, “Mt. Edith Cormie Aug 24/38”. Written right of centre in the bottom half of the paper is, “14 x 10 1/4 6 x 6 1/2 20 x 16 3/4”. Written on the left side mid way up is, “51” with a circle around it.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Mount. Edith; lake; Doris Cormie

Credit: Gift of Barry Hunter Gillis, Richmond, 2006

Catalogue Number: CmD.05.06

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Mount Lefroy N.W.T.

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Artist: Marmaduke Matthews (1837 – 1913, British)

Date: c. 1888

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MaM.05.01

Description: Left foreground evergreen trees on a slope, right foreground from centre left to tr mountain slope with some evergreen trees and burnt out forest. The snow capped mountain is centre right to near top of picture. Mountain range to left. Sky is partly cloudy, streaked with colour. On back in art…

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Artist: Marmaduke Matthews (1837 – 1913, British)

Title: Mount Lefroy N.W.T.

Date: c. 1888

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 15.7 x 35.0 cm

Description: Left foreground evergreen trees on a slope, right foreground from centre left to tr mountain slope with some evergreen trees and burnt out forest. The snow capped mountain is centre right to near top of picture. Mountain range to left. Sky is partly cloudy, streaked with colour. On back in artist's hand: Mt. Lefroy N.W.T. Highest Peak on the C.P.R. line near Abbott Pass, more than 11,000 feet high. Also Twice One fifth less than twice

Subject: Canadian Rockies; Mount Lefroy; CPR

Credit: Gift of Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 1995

Catalogue Number: MaM.05.01

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Mountain with Lake

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Artist: Thomas Mower Martin, R. C. A. (1838 – 1934, Canadian)

Date: 1887 – 1897

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MrT.05.02

Description: A snow covered mountain peak dominates centre of picture, in the foreground is a blue green lake, evergreen trees and rocks surround it, a pale, partly cloudy sky

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Artist: Thomas Mower Martin, R. C. A. (1838 – 1934, Canadian)

Title: Mountain with Lake

Date: 1887 – 1897

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 33.7 x 50.2 cm

Description: A snow covered mountain peak dominates centre of picture, in the foreground is a blue green lake, evergreen trees and rocks surround it, a pale, partly cloudy sky

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Purchased from Sotheby Parke Bernet (Canada) Ltd, Toronto, 1993

Catalogue Number: MrT.05.02

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Mt. Rundle, Vermilion Lakes, Banff, N.W.T.

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.06

Description: Mt. Rundle with Vermilion Lakes in foreground. A figure in a canoe is on the shore of the lake in the lower centre of image.

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Title: Mt. Rundle, Vermilion Lakes, Banff, N.W.T.

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 33.5 x 48.6 cm

Description: Mt. Rundle with Vermilion Lakes in foreground. A figure in a canoe is on the shore of the lake in the lower centre of image.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Mount Rundle; Vermilion Lakes; activity; canoeing

Credit: Gift of Ted and Judy Mills, Mill Bay, 2005

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.06

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Near Oban, Opposite Dunstaffnage

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Artist: John Arthur Fraser (1838 – 1898, English)

Date: c. 1888

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: FsJ.05.03

Description: A small stone and thatched roof house in a grassy field. Smoke rises from two chimneys. A large green hill behind the house has slight cliffs half way up. The heads of two people can be seen above the grass next to the house.

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Artist: John Arthur Fraser (1838 – 1898, English)

Title: Near Oban, Opposite Dunstaffnage

Date: c. 1888

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 24.1 x 34.2 cm

Description: A small stone and thatched roof house in a grassy field. Smoke rises from two chimneys. A large green hill behind the house has slight cliffs half way up. The heads of two people can be seen above the grass next to the house.

Subject: Scotland

Credit: Gift of Robyn L Fulton, 2023

Catalogue Number: FsJ.05.03

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The New Plant at the Gap - Banff Road

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

Date: 1936

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.05.04

Description: An industrial plant is situated next to the side of the mountain. This may be a gravel plant or perhaps a cement plant somewhere near Exshaw.

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

Title: The New Plant at the Gap - Banff Road

Date: 1936

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: An industrial plant is situated next to the side of the mountain. This may be a gravel plant or perhaps a cement plant somewhere near Exshaw.

Subject: architecture; industrial plant; landscape; Canadian Rockies; The Gap; Exshaw

Credit: Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997

Catalogue Number: GyH.05.04

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Old Fort St. John, Upper Peace River, B.C.

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

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour; charcoal on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.09

Description: General colour: white on grey ochre. Looking down into the river valley. Village can be seen in lower right under a bill which rises up right side. The river comes out of the lower left corner across the middle. The far shore and mountains beyond move across two thirds up. Sky fills the upper third…

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

Title: Old Fort St. John, Upper Peace River, B.C.

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour; charcoal on paper

Dimensions: 14.3 x 19.7 cm

Description: General colour: white on grey ochre. Looking down into the river valley. Village can be seen in lower right under a bill which rises up right side. The river comes out of the lower left corner across the middle. The far shore and mountains beyond move across two thirds up. Sky fills the upper third.signed lr: “LE” ll “1930”