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Banyan Tree, Bali

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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.

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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

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Beach at Makapu'u Point, Hawaii

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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.

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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

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The Bear Street Alley, Banff

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1931 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.344

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: The Bear Street Alley, Banff

Date: 1931 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; town; building; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.344

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Bear Street Alley, Banff

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.054

Description: Colour: blue, green, brown, grey, mauve. The lower half is buildngs, rooftops and four telephone poles. The upper half is distant hills sloping up to blue and white mountains left of center near the top. There is cloudy sky across the top.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bear Street Alley, Banff

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35.2 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green, brown, grey, mauve. The lower half is buildngs, rooftops and four telephone poles. The upper half is distant hills sloping up to blue and white mountains left of center near the top. There is cloudy sky across the top.

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.054

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Bear Street Alley, Banff

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.052

Description: Colour: warm brown with blue. A road with buildings on both sides and hydro poles, goes from the bottom foreground to left side and disappears into a mountain side which rises up behind filling the upper half. Blue sky is in the upper right corner.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bear Street Alley, Banff

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: warm brown with blue. A road with buildings on both sides and hydro poles, goes from the bottom foreground to left side and disappears into a mountain side which rises up behind filling the upper half. Blue sky is in the upper right corner.

Subject: architecture; urban; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.052

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Bear Street Alley, Cascade Mountain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1932 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.533

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bear Street Alley, Cascade Mountain

Date: 1932 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.1 x 40.4 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; town; Banff

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.533

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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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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 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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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.

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

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Cabin at Assiniboine

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.050

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cabin at Assiniboine

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.8 x 50.8 cm

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; forest; winter; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.050

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Castle Mountain

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.04

Description: A black and white engraving of Castle Mountain. The foreground is a dense forest with a slight clearing of brush at center of image.The forest ends at slopes up an embankment. The embankment has water pathways, leading in a downward pattern. The mountain rises from the embankment to a cloudy sky. T…

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Title: Castle Mountain

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Dimensions: 24.8 cm x 33 cm cm

Description: A black and white engraving of Castle Mountain. The foreground is a dense forest with a slight clearing of brush at center of image.The forest ends at slopes up an embankment. The embankment has water pathways, leading in a downward pattern. The mountain rises from the embankment to a cloudy sky. There is a red pencilled number “758” in the bottom lhc.

Subject: landscape; mountain; H. E. Bergman

Credit: Gift of Karen Paul, Calgary, 2010

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.04

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Cathedral Mountain

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

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.055

Description: Cathedral Mountain viewed from across Lake O’Hara.

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.8 x 28.0 cm

Description: Cathedral Mountain viewed from across Lake O’Hara.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; Cathedral Mountain; Lake O’Hara

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.055

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Cathedral Mountain

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

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.312

Description: One small tree, half a page high on right side, two larch trees on left side (full page), Cathedral Mountain in background, the peak is cut by a large thin cloud, the remainder of the sky is blue.

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: One small tree, half a page high on right side, two larch trees on left side (full page), Cathedral Mountain in background, the peak is cut by a large thin cloud, the remainder of the sky is blue.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.312

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Cathedral Mountain

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.323

Description: Group of about ten trees brc, sloping hill behind this with a group of trees in centre and also along sky line, group of five or six trees blc behind which is a reddish blue hill, in the centre background is a mountain (Cathedral) with light blue patch on left side, very horizontal white clouds aga…

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Group of about ten trees brc, sloping hill behind this with a group of trees in centre and also along sky line, group of five or six trees blc behind which is a reddish blue hill, in the centre background is a mountain (Cathedral) with light blue patch on left side, very horizontal white clouds against a light blue sky. Shades of green in the lower section, shades and tints of blue in the upper section and a little reddish blue on the two central mountains.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.323

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Cathedral Mountain

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.304

Description: Brown mountain mass extends across bottom of painting, and peaks to right of centre, patch of grey on side of mountain brc, swirlng grey clouds consume most of centre and upper area and move from left to upper right, patch of blue sky upper left is cut by grey cloud.

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Brown mountain mass extends across bottom of painting, and peaks to right of centre, patch of grey on side of mountain brc, swirlng grey clouds consume most of centre and upper area and move from left to upper right, patch of blue sky upper left is cut by grey cloud.