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- Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian) 368
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- Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian) 55
- Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American) 5
- Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American) 5
- Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British) 5
- James Edward Hervey MacDonald, R. C. A. (1873 – 1932, Canadian) 5
- Frederick Andrew Bosley (1881 – 1942, American) 3
- Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American) 2
- Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian) 2
- Cornelius David Krieghoff (1815 – 1872, Canadian) 2
- D. H. Pinder 2
Alexander River
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.150
- Description
- Colour: green, purple. Across the bottom and angling up left is grass with trees, three at left and two at right, along the river's edge. The green river comes in from the right side, goes left and then up right side to disappear into the far shore of dark trees. The right shore juts in from that s…
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- Title
- Alexander River
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 28 cm
- Description
- Colour: green, purple. Across the bottom and angling up left is grass with trees, three at left and two at right, along the river's edge. The green river comes in from the right side, goes left and then up right side to disappear into the far shore of dark trees. The right shore juts in from that side, halfway up. In the background across the top are purple mountains. Five peaks meet a green grey sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- river
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.150
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An Evolution in Leg Wear Commonly Known as Pants
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- Date
- 1925 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.755
- Description
- Simple sketches of different types of pants wore throughout a man’s life, ranging from different types of work (or lack there of) and his childhood. Beside each pair of pants they are labelled with a number and the type of pants that are drawn. In the BRC it says “AN EVOLUTION IN LEG WEAR COMMONLY …
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- Title
- An Evolution in Leg Wear Commonly Known as Pants
- Date
- 1925 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- Simple sketches of different types of pants wore throughout a man’s life, ranging from different types of work (or lack there of) and his childhood. Beside each pair of pants they are labelled with a number and the type of pants that are drawn. In the BRC it says “AN EVOLUTION IN LEG WEAR COMMONLY KNOWN AS PANTS. GO BY THE NUMBERS”verso: in the BRC there appears to be a sketch of a man signing, above him there are images of two people that have been cut off (making it difficult to tell what they are doing), and “ato min” written. To the left of the man signing there appears to be music notes and the letters “KT”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.755
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Annisqualm, Mass.
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.303
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- Title
- Annisqualm, Mass.
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 22.9 x 27.7 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- New England
- hills
- figure
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.303
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- Artist
- D. H. Pinder
- Date
- c. 1930
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PiD.05.01
- Description
- An unframed watercolour showing a small boat with two sails on water at sunset. In the background are palm trees and stone columns. A person and a red net are in the boat.
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- Artist
- D. H. Pinder
- Title
- Arab Dhow
- Date
- c. 1930
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 10.8 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- An unframed watercolour showing a small boat with two sails on water at sunset. In the background are palm trees and stone columns. A person and a red net are in the boat.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- PiD.05.01
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Around the World in One Month
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- Date
- 1925 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.746
- Description
- A simple sketch of a man in a fancy vehicle wearing a mask driving off. There appears to be a sign erased to the left of the car. The hood ornament looks like a little man with giant hands. In the TRC it says “AROUND THE WORLD IN ONE MONTH,” on the vehicle is says “WHITE CAR,” and it is signed in t…
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- Title
- Around the World in One Month
- Date
- 1925 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 22.8 cm
- Description
- A simple sketch of a man in a fancy vehicle wearing a mask driving off. There appears to be a sign erased to the left of the car. The hood ornament looks like a little man with giant hands. In the TRC it says “AROUND THE WORLD IN ONE MONTH,” on the vehicle is says “WHITE CAR,” and it is signed in the BLC
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.746
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At the Base of Cory Mountain
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- Date
- 1927 – 1928
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.377
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- 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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- Date
- c. 1930
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- BwB.02.01
- Description
- General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. …
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- Title
- Baker Creek
- Date
- c. 1930
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 90.2 x 100.2 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. Clear sky and a distant hill in the upper right corner.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- winter
- Baker Creek
- Credit
- Gift of Evelyn Browne, Durham, USA, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- BwB.02.01
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- Date
- 1925 – 1929
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.868
- Description
- Boxed off is a study of balance. There are six separate drawings to emphasis balance in architecture, specifically windows. Each one has a number and their style written below: “II ITALIAN BROCADES”, “V MARBLE INLAID”, “IV ITALIAN BROCADES”, “III FRENCH GOTHIC”, “VIII HARP LUTE”, and “VIII ENGLISH …
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- Title
- Balance
- Date
- 1925 – 1929
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 36.3 x 25.3 cm
- Description
- Boxed off is a study of balance. There are six separate drawings to emphasis balance in architecture, specifically windows. Each one has a number and their style written below: “II ITALIAN BROCADES”, “V MARBLE INLAID”, “IV ITALIAN BROCADES”, “III FRENCH GOTHIC”, “VIII HARP LUTE”, and “VIII ENGLISH GUITAR”. In the TRC “EB B-”, and it is signed by Peter near the BRC.
- Subject
- balance
- Gothic
- English Guitar
- Harp Lute
- French Gothic
- Italian Brocades
- Marble Inlaid
- window
- architecture
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.868
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Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928
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- Date
- c. 1928
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- JkR.02.03
- Description
- A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of …
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- Title
- Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928
- Date
- c. 1928
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 75.5 x 60.3 cm
- Description
- A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of an open space where the men in kilts are standing. Mount Rundle rises up behind the Hotel. A flagpole, trees and coloured tents are dispersed through the crowd in the middle of the painting.
- Credit
- Gift of Joan Fitt, Calgary, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- JkR.02.03
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Bear Street Alley, Sulphur Mountain
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- Date
- 1922 – 1933
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.534
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- Title
- Bear Street Alley, Sulphur Mountain
- Date
- 1922 – 1933
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.2 x 40.4 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.534
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Below Bow Falls
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.149
- Description
- Colour: green, grey, blue. The lower area is a river running from the lower right corner up left to center. Snow banks on either side give way to a rocky hillside on the left and a row of trees to the right. Behind in the centre is a treed slope going right to mountain and left to a distant mountai…
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- Title
- Below Bow Falls
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 21.6 x 16.8 cm
- Description
- Colour: green, grey, blue. The lower area is a river running from the lower right corner up left to center. Snow banks on either side give way to a rocky hillside on the left and a row of trees to the right. Behind in the centre is a treed slope going right to mountain and left to a distant mountain. Blue sky along the top.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountains
- falls
- winter
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.149
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Blossoms - Concord
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- Date
- 1927 – 1930
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.040
- Description
- Two large trees on the left side of image, pink blossoms
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- Title
- Blossoms - Concord
- Date
- 1927 – 1930
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 20.4 x 24.8 cm
- Description
- Two large trees on the left side of image, pink blossoms
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.040
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- 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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- 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.
- 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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- Date
- 1928 – 1933
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.509
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- Title
- Bow Lake
- Date
- 1928 – 1933
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.2 x 35.3 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.509
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Brazeau Snowfield, Jasper
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- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HaL.03.01
- Description
- Inscription reads: Brazeau Snowfield, Jasper. Sketchbook drawing by Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970). Presented to the Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, Alta. in memory of Peter & Catharine Whyte by Anne & Lawren P. Harris, June, 1979. Also written by Lawren P. Harris is the Following: I certify this work to…
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- Title
- Brazeau Snowfield, Jasper
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 18.0 x 24.5 cm
- Description
- Inscription reads: Brazeau Snowfield, Jasper. Sketchbook drawing by Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970). Presented to the Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, Alta. in memory of Peter & Catharine Whyte by Anne & Lawren P. Harris, June, 1979. Also written by Lawren P. Harris is the Following: I certify this work to be an original sketchbook drawing by Lawren S. Harris, (1885-1970. Lawren P. Harris, May 22, 1979. Ottawa, Ontario.
- Credit
- Gift of Lawren P. Harris, Ottawa, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- HaL.03.01
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By Royal Appointment
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- Date
- 1929 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on drawing
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.467
- Description
- Pencil drawing of a coach with two figures on the front and one on rear. [the inscription] BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT/ SAMA WARD COACH BUILDERPieces of a coach scattered with a man building a coach on left side.
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- Title
- By Royal Appointment
- Date
- 1929 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on drawing
- Dimensions
- 21.2 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Pencil drawing of a coach with two figures on the front and one on rear. [the inscription] BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT/ SAMA WARD COACH BUILDERPieces of a coach scattered with a man building a coach on left side.
- Subject
- coach
- builder
- Sama Ward
- royal appointment
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.467
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Cabin at Lake O'Hara
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- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- AbM.02.01
- Description
- General colours: brown, green, purple and red. Central image is a log cabin coming out from left side. The front door is framed on either side by colourful hanging clothes and Aivo chairs, one on each side. In the background to the right is another cabin. Behind and above are trees, a patch of grey…
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- Title
- Cabin at Lake O'Hara
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 20.2 x 25.6 cm
- Description
- General colours: brown, green, purple and red. Central image is a log cabin coming out from left side. The front door is framed on either side by colourful hanging clothes and Aivo chairs, one on each side. In the background to the right is another cabin. Behind and above are trees, a patch of grey sky in the upper right corner and a purple mountain face in the upper left.The painting was originally given by the artist, to Syd Graves (who managed Lake O’Hara for many years). It was then given to Bill Brewster, who gave it to Rita Crick, who gave it to the Peter Whyte Gallery.
- Credit
- Gift of Rita Crick, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- AbM.02.01
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Canton, China, Typical Street Scene
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.005
- Description
- A street scene with various intensities of red, yellow, and blue signs on buildings on both sides of the street with laundry strung between. At the right a figure in blue with a sandy coloured hat sits in a doorway by some bundles. At the left a man in a sandy coloured hat carries two yellow bundl…
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- Title
- Canton, China, Typical Street Scene
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.5 x 22.1 cm
- Description
- A street scene with various intensities of red, yellow, and blue signs on buildings on both sides of the street with laundry strung between. At the right a figure in blue with a sandy coloured hat sits in a doorway by some bundles. At the left a man in a sandy coloured hat carries two yellow bundles on a pole that he carries across his shoulders. In the background are numerous other figures.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.005
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Cascade Mountain
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- 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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs J. C, Reed, 1972
- Catalogue Number
- BwB.02.03
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Castleguard Meadows
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.594
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- Title
- Castleguard Meadows
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.7 x 27.8 cm
- Credit
- Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.594
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