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6 minute sketch

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

Date: 1917

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.074

Description: four small pink flowers with large green leaves and brown stem

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

Title: 6 minute sketch

Date: 1917

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25.2 x 19.0 cm

Description: four small pink flowers with large green leaves and brown stem

Subject: pink; flower; 6 minute sketch

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.074

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10 Minute Sketch

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

Date: 1917

Medium: coloured charcoal on paper (sand?)

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.072

Description: one pink flower with leaves in white outlined vase

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

Title: 10 Minute Sketch

Date: 1917

Medium: coloured charcoal on paper (sand?)

Dimensions: 39.0 x 21.0 cm

Description: one pink flower with leaves in white outlined vase

Subject: flower; pink; vase

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.072

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Barrier Lake

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

Date: 1952

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.375

Description: The blue lake in the center of this image is surrounded by green trees. Behind the lake the mountains are partically covered with trees and some are light brown in color with no trees. The sky above the lake and mountains is pale blue with some white clouds. The foreground area has a road that begi…

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

Title: Barrier Lake

Date: 1952

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.3 cm

Description: The blue lake in the center of this image is surrounded by green trees. Behind the lake the mountains are partically covered with trees and some are light brown in color with no trees. The sky above the lake and mountains is pale blue with some white clouds. The foreground area has a road that begins on the left and follows threw to the right, with a dip down in the bottom center area.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; Barrier Lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.375

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Boat

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

Date: 1958

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.377

Description: Sitting in the bottom left corner is a fishing boat on an angle with a blue shadow behind it reaching over to the right side.

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

Title: Boat

Date: 1958

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.3 x 30.3 cm

Description: Sitting in the bottom left corner is a fishing boat on an angle with a blue shadow behind it reaching over to the right side.

Subject: transportation; boat

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.377

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Bow Lake

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

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.241

Description: The light and dark turquoise of Bow Lake is placed in the middleground. At the base of the picture, the lake is described by a horizontal stroke of light grey and by a number of vertical brushstrokes of turquoise. The vegetation in front of the lake, in the lower left and right corners, contains th…

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

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: The light and dark turquoise of Bow Lake is placed in the middleground. At the base of the picture, the lake is described by a horizontal stroke of light grey and by a number of vertical brushstrokes of turquoise. The vegetation in front of the lake, in the lower left and right corners, contains the same dark green, and light violet-grey found in the background. The violet-grey is used to indicate: the snow covering the dark violet-grey mountain on the right; the rock forming the more distant peak on the left; and a lighter tint of this colour forms the clouds in the upper left corner. A separate area of blue-grey clouds occupies the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.241

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Downstairs Upstairs.

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

Date: c. 1918

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.301

Description: Interior drawing home. Perhaps Catharine’s Boston childhood home

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

Title: Downstairs Upstairs.

Date: c. 1918

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 10.0 x 16.5 cm

Description: Interior drawing home. Perhaps Catharine’s Boston childhood home

Subject: interior home

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.301

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Fort St. James

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

Date: 1973

Medium: oil on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.069

Description: Two buildings in grassy area.

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

Title: Fort St. James

Date: 1973

Medium: oil on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 30.3 cm

Description: Two buildings in grassy area.

Subject: architecture; rural; Fort St. James

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.069

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Frobisher Bay

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

Date: 1970

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.280

Description: View of a village under vast clouds, with a stretch of water in the distance. In the left foreground is a rectangular home, whose walls are made up of ochre, yellow and red sections. A roughly sketched rise of brown, brown-grey and blue rock lies in the right foreground. A brown road swings between…

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

Title: Frobisher Bay

Date: 1970

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: View of a village under vast clouds, with a stretch of water in the distance. In the left foreground is a rectangular home, whose walls are made up of ochre, yellow and red sections. A roughly sketched rise of brown, brown-grey and blue rock lies in the right foreground. A brown road swings between the foreground house and rocks. Beyond this, is a line of green, red and blue houses. Tall black poles rise up from among the homes. Near the centre of the picture is a short stretch of white, indicating a body of water. Above the horizon are layers of violet-grey clouds (with touches of ochre and pink). Lighter violet-grey clouds extend upwards on the right-hand side, while pale grey-yellow clouds rise on the left-hand side. An area of blue sky stretches diagonally from the upper left corner towards the lower right section of the sketch.