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Andromeda

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Artist: Peter von Tiesenhausen (1959 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993 – 1994

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: VtP.02.01

Description: An ice floe fans out from top right, across centre, to left foreground. The mountain is in various colours with yellow dominant. Cloudy sky tlc and top.

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Artist: Peter von Tiesenhausen (1959 – , Canadian)

Title: Andromeda

Date: 1993 – 1994

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 142.2 x 218.4 cm

Description: An ice floe fans out from top right, across centre, to left foreground. The mountain is in various colours with yellow dominant. Cloudy sky tlc and top.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier

Credit: Purchased from Peter von Tiesenhausen, Demmitt, 1994

Catalogue Number: VtP.02.01

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At the Base of Cory Mountain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1927 – 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.377

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: At the Base of Cory Mountain

Date: 1927 – 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.0 x 27.5 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.377

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Bow Glacier

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.04

Description: Colour: blue, green. The lower half is green grass with evergreens along the shore of the lake which appears at left of center. The upper half is blue and purple and white mountains. Sky goes along the top.

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Bow Glacier

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 29.0 x 40.0 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green. The lower half is green grass with evergreens along the shore of the lake which appears at left of center. The upper half is blue and purple and white mountains. Sky goes along the top.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Rocky Mountains; glacier; Bow Glacier

Credit: Gift of Mary Hallock, Fort St. James, 1981

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.04

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Breaking Camp on Mount Logan, Yukon

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Artist: Ted Raftery

Date: 1991

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: RaT.02.01

Description: Foreground from near top left to near bottom right is a snow covered mountain slope, 3 climbers with rope are on the slope, background is snow covered mountains protruding through cloud cover, top quarter is clear blue sky

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Artist: Ted Raftery

Title: Breaking Camp on Mount Logan, Yukon

Date: 1991

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.5 x 50.7 cm

Description: Foreground from near top left to near bottom right is a snow covered mountain slope, 3 climbers with rope are on the slope, background is snow covered mountains protruding through cloud cover, top quarter is clear blue sky

Subject: landscape; mountain; people; Mount Logan; activity; climbing

Credit: Gift of Ted Raftery, Calgary, 1992

Catalogue Number: RaT.02.01

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Cascade Mountain

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.03

Description: General colour: blue, green, red brown. In the lower third are buildings and a road. The building in the center flies a flag. Behind the town of Banff are trees and a mountain rises up to a peak right of center at the top. Clouded sky comes down with sides a third.

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Cascade Mountain

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 45.5 x 61.0 cm

Description: General colour: blue, green, red brown. In the lower third are buildings and a road. The building in the center flies a flag. Behind the town of Banff are trees and a mountain rises up to a peak right of center at the top. Clouded sky comes down with sides a third.

Subject: mountain; architecture; Rocky Mountains; Cascade Mountain; urban; Banff

Credit: Gift of Mrs J. C, Reed, 1972

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.03

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Cathedral Mountain

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

Date: 1929 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.330

Description: Lower third of painting is green with trees, upper two thirds is purple hills and mountain which is orange and has a patch of white on right slope, the sky is light blue-grey.

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1929 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 13.4 x 15.0 cm

Description: Lower third of painting is green with trees, upper two thirds is purple hills and mountain which is orange and has a patch of white on right slope, the sky is light blue-grey.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.330

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Clouds Over the Yoho

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928 – 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.375

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Clouds Over the Yoho

Date: 1928 – 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20.5 x 25.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.375

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Columbia Icefield

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.277

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Columbia Icefield

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 13.7 x 15.0 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.277

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Eventide, Maligne Lake

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Artist: David Pugh (1946 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1991

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: PhD.02.01

Description: Lake and mountain scene, mostly dark blue, bottom half is the lake, trees rim left and right side at centre with reflections, narrow peninsula extends from brc to centre left. A ground of coniferous trees on it near end, reflections, a single coniferous tree at left runs from top to bottom, sparse…

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Artist: David Pugh (1946 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Eventide, Maligne Lake

Date: 1991

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 61.0 x 75.8 cm

Description: Lake and mountain scene, mostly dark blue, bottom half is the lake, trees rim left and right side at centre with reflections, narrow peninsula extends from brc to centre left. A ground of coniferous trees on it near end, reflections, a single coniferous tree at left runs from top to bottom, sparsely branched, snow cappped mountains rise from lake edge, long white clouds, predominantly centre to top left.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Purchased from Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 1991

Catalogue Number: PhD.02.01

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Four Poplar Trunks, Autumn

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928 – 1932

Medium: oil on pressed paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.376

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Four Poplar Trunks, Autumn

Date: 1928 – 1932

Medium: oil on pressed paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 21.9 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; trees

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.376

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Goat Mountain, Spray Valley

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.131

Description: Colour: blue, green, grey. At the lower left corner is a purple rock slope with three short trees on it. Behind on either side are green shores sloping down to a snowy river which goes from the lower right corner to the center. In the upper third in the distance are blue mountains three peaks and b…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Goat Mountain, Spray Valley

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.5 x 27.7 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green, grey. At the lower left corner is a purple rock slope with three short trees on it. Behind on either side are green shores sloping down to a snowy river which goes from the lower right corner to the center. In the upper third in the distance are blue mountains three peaks and blue sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; Goat Mountain; valley; Spray

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.131

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Lake McArthur and Mount Biddle

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.130

Description: Colour: blue, purple, green, cream. The bottom edge is blue water. Brown and green shore gives way to snow patch which is partly shadowed. In the upper half is purple mountain rock face. Sky in the upper right corner is cloudless.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake McArthur and Mount Biddle

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 10.75 x 8.5 cm

Description: Colour: blue, purple, green, cream. The bottom edge is blue water. Brown and green shore gives way to snow patch which is partly shadowed. In the upper half is purple mountain rock face. Sky in the upper right corner is cloudless.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; Mount Biddle; lake; Lake McArthur

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.130

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Lake O'Hara in Rain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.276

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake O'Hara in Rain

Date: 1928 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 13.0 x 15.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.276

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[Mabel?]

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

Date: c. 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.432

Description: an unfinished painting of a woman wearing a red lei. She is painted in 3/4 view facing to viewers left. HEr brown hair is in a ponytail at the nape of her neck.

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

Title: [Mabel?]

Date: c. 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 63.0 x 53.0 cm

Description: an unfinished painting of a woman wearing a red lei. She is painted in 3/4 view facing to viewers left. HEr brown hair is in a ponytail at the nape of her neck.

Subject: portrait; woman; Hawai’i

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.432

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Mount Assiniboine

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Artist: William Hutchinson (1874 – 1918, Canadian)

Date: 1994

Medium: oil on paperboard

Catalogue Number: HuW.02.02

Description: Snow-capped mountain centre top, yellow tinged mountain face meets the green forest floor at bottom fifth of painting. Evergreen trees frame both sides with bare trunks on right side.

Artist: William Hutchinson (1874 – 1918, Canadian)

Title: Mount Assiniboine

Date: 1994

Medium: oil on paperboard

Dimensions: 119.5 x 81.4 cm

Description: Snow-capped mountain centre top, yellow tinged mountain face meets the green forest floor at bottom fifth of painting. Evergreen trees frame both sides with bare trunks on right side.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; Mount Assiniboine; forest

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Hutchinson, Winnipeg, 1994

Catalogue Number: HuW.02.02

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Mount Bourgeau from the Recreation Grounds

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928 – 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.299

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mount Bourgeau from the Recreation Grounds

Date: 1928 – 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 23.0 x 28.0 cm

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.299

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Mount Rundle

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

Date: ca. 1930 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.260

Description: Looking east towards Rundle Mountain. In the right background is Mount Rundle with the sun illuminating it from the right. Shadowed areas are done in medium blue. The upper slopes are light grey (with touches of brick-red and ochre), while the lower slopes are green with an underpainting of blue. A…

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

Title: Mount Rundle

Date: ca. 1930 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.2 cm

Description: Looking east towards Rundle Mountain. In the right background is Mount Rundle with the sun illuminating it from the right. Shadowed areas are done in medium blue. The upper slopes are light grey (with touches of brick-red and ochre), while the lower slopes are green with an underpainting of blue. A patch of blue water can be seen in the lower right, behind the foreground trees. Some of the foreground trees have yellow foliage and others are pine trees. A large pine tree rises on the left side to cut off the bottom of Rundle's left slope. The sky is blue except for two white and grey clouds above the mountain.