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Cave and Basin

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Artist: Tom Lonsdale (1886 – 1975, Canadian)

Date: c. 1955

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: LoT.02.02

Description: Tom Lonsdale was the United Church Minister, for many years, in Banff; he took painting lessons from Pete Whyte circa 1950; Catharine purchased LoT.02.02 through LoT.02.04 at a United Church rummage sale, for $3.00 each, in 1975. Tom Lonsdale spent some years in a Calgary rest home and died 1975.

Artist: Tom Lonsdale (1886 – 1975, Canadian)

Title: Cave and Basin

Date: c. 1955

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35.4 cm

Description: Tom Lonsdale was the United Church Minister, for many years, in Banff; he took painting lessons from Pete Whyte circa 1950; Catharine purchased LoT.02.02 through LoT.02.04 at a United Church rummage sale, for $3.00 each, in 1975. Tom Lonsdale spent some years in a Calgary rest home and died 1975.

Subject: landscape; mountains; architecture

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

Catalogue Number: LoT.02.02

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Crosses

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Artist: Elizabeth Rummel (1897 – 1980, Canadian)

Date: 1951

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: RwE.02.01

Description: Seven large brown crosses dominate from the foreground to top of picture, one post is on extreme left. The foreground is brownish, blue/green water (?), orange/red horizon, yellowish sky (?), the top of picture is greyish. Titled, dated and signed on back.

Artist: Elizabeth Rummel (1897 – 1980, Canadian)

Title: Crosses

Date: 1951

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 30.3 x 40.2 cm

Description: Seven large brown crosses dominate from the foreground to top of picture, one post is on extreme left. The foreground is brownish, blue/green water (?), orange/red horizon, yellowish sky (?), the top of picture is greyish. Titled, dated and signed on back.

Subject: abstract

Credit: Gift of Haneylore Auchenbach, Canmore, 1984

Catalogue Number: RwE.02.01

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Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.352

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Crowfoot Glacier

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.352

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Dawn on the Ten Peaks, Moraine Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.328

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Dawn on the Ten Peaks, Moraine Lake

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.3 x 30.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.328

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Dorothy Carleton

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Artist: Bev Tosh (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 2014

Medium: oil on plywood

Catalogue Number: TsB.02.01 a,b

Description: (a) portrait of Dorothy Carleton facing the viewer, her face in the top 1/3 and shoulders fade into the prominent wood grain, the bottom 2/3 is lightly painted white dress on wood grain. There is ar rainbow in top left corner to represent Dorothy’s statement of “living at the end of the rainbow”, t…

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Artist: Bev Tosh (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Dorothy Carleton

Date: 2014

Medium: oil on plywood

Dimensions: 121.92 x 31.43 cm

Description: (a) portrait of Dorothy Carleton facing the viewer, her face in the top 1/3 and shoulders fade into the prominent wood grain, the bottom 2/3 is lightly painted white dress on wood grain. There is ar rainbow in top left corner to represent Dorothy’s statement of “living at the end of the rainbow”, the street she lived on in Banff with her family according to painter Tosh.(b) 142 x 30 cm white silk panel with black typed inscription

Subject: war bride; Carleton; Tosh; portrait; bride; war

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Carleton, Banff, 2016

Catalogue Number: TsB.02.01 a,b

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Eagle Feeding Young

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: UnK.02.10

Description: A brownish eagle with yellow beak and feet is in the center of the picture, he is feeding a young eagle. The foreground is dark brownish hills, the sky is blue with white clouds.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Eagle Feeding Young

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 45.7 x 65.5 cm

Description: A brownish eagle with yellow beak and feet is in the center of the picture, he is feeding a young eagle. The foreground is dark brownish hills, the sky is blue with white clouds.

Subject: animal, bird

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.02.10

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Emerald Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.216

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Emerald Lake

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.4 x 35.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake, Emerald Lake; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.216

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Emerald Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.329

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Emerald Lake

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.0 x 30.0 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.329

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Emerald Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.347

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Emerald Lake

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.1 x 29.9 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.347

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Fire Engine, Dawson City

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.097

Description: Colour: blue, orange red. Central image is a four wheeled vehicle with a tank and a long black handled pump. It stands in green grass. Behind is a large building: the back part of which is yellow, the front purple brown. A few figures can be seen by the door at the left side. Above are telegraph po…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Fire Engine, Dawson City

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: blue, orange red. Central image is a four wheeled vehicle with a tank and a long black handled pump. It stands in green grass. Behind is a large building: the back part of which is yellow, the front purple brown. A few figures can be seen by the door at the left side. Above are telegraph poles and blue sky.

Subject: transportation; architecture; urban

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.097

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From the Little Beehive

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

Date: 1953 – 1958

Medium: oil on canvas on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.112

Description: Mt. Victoria and Mt. Lefroy seen from the Little Beehive.

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

Title: From the Little Beehive

Date: 1953 – 1958

Medium: oil on canvas on masonite

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: Mt. Victoria and Mt. Lefroy seen from the Little Beehive.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Little Beehive; Mt. Victoria, Mt. Lefroy

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.112

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Funeral of Chief David Bearspaw

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.033

Description: Colour: multi colours on white. In the lower left corner is the backside of a sled pulled by two horses. There are figures sitting in the sled and walking beside it, also two dogs. Many figures are making their way from the right to the left of centre where there is a huge circle of figures. Ac…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Funeral of Chief David Bearspaw

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 90.5 x 100.8 cm

Description: Colour: multi colours on white. In the lower left corner is the backside of a sled pulled by two horses. There are figures sitting in the sled and walking beside it, also two dogs. Many figures are making their way from the right to the left of centre where there is a huge circle of figures. Across the right side in front of a fence is a row of eleven sleds. The hills beyond meet the lake up centre and the far shore of blue mountains two thirds up. The sky is streaked grey.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; transportation; figure; group; religious

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.033

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Going to the Sundance

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.021

Description: Colour: green, blue, black, white. A wagon pulled by horses, a rider and horse and aother wagon move from left to right on a trail through green prairie grass. The blue sky above has three large clouds.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Going to the Sundance

Date: 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 91.8 x 181.2 cm

Description: Colour: green, blue, black, white. A wagon pulled by horses, a rider and horse and aother wagon move from left to right on a trail through green prairie grass. The blue sky above has three large clouds.

Subject: landscape; figure; group; transportation; animal; horse

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.021

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Indian Scout

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.04

Description: An man on a large gray rock in center of picture is looking down into a valley, Four teepees and two horses are beside a river. Another man on a brown horse is leading a pinto, another horse is coming into the picture, lower right. A large taupe coloured cloud covers the entire top of picture. The …

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Title: Indian Scout

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 23.0 x 30.0 cm

Description: An man on a large gray rock in center of picture is looking down into a valley, Four teepees and two horses are beside a river. Another man on a brown horse is leading a pinto, another horse is coming into the picture, lower right. A large taupe coloured cloud covers the entire top of picture. The knoll on which the rock and riders are on is very lush and green.

Subject: landscape; foothills; animal, horse; figure, male; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.04

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Kananaskis

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.337

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Kananaskis

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.337

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Kananaskis

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.341

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Kananaskis

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.1 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.341

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Kananaskis Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1954 – 1957

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.310

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Kananaskis Lake

Date: 1954 – 1957

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.3 x 30.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; mountains

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.310

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Kicking Horse River, Chancellor Peak Campground

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.215

Description: A landscape of mountains, sky and a river. The foreground is dominated by brown and grey rocks and by white and turquoise frothing, raging water. The upper half of the painting are dark green pine trees with mauve and white mountains beyond. Mid- to-top is blue sky with one long white cloud.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Kicking Horse River, Chancellor Peak Campground

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.8 x 35.5 cm

Description: A landscape of mountains, sky and a river. The foreground is dominated by brown and grey rocks and by white and turquoise frothing, raging water. The upper half of the painting are dark green pine trees with mauve and white mountains beyond. Mid- to-top is blue sky with one long white cloud.