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Adventures of a Brownie
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.915
- Date
- 1921
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.915
- Description
- A book standing upright, that has a little shading on the surface that it stands on. On the spine of the book it says “DUNLOP” and on the book cover “ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE”.verso: a drawing of a coffee table or dining room table. In the TRC it says “Jan 5’/21”
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- Title
- Adventures of a Brownie
- Date
- 1921
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 14.5 cm
- Description
- A book standing upright, that has a little shading on the surface that it stands on. On the spine of the book it says “DUNLOP” and on the book cover “ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE”.verso: a drawing of a coffee table or dining room table. In the TRC it says “Jan 5’/21”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.915
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An Evolution in Leg Wear Commonly Known as Pants
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.755
- 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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- Date
- 1927
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PeR.03.03
- Description
- A head and shoulders portrait of a First Nations Chief in full headdress. He is turned slightly to the right, his right hand is raised in salute. Written in the lower right corner is “To my fine old friend Col. Moore Anis-ta-ma-ka Pal. Banff, Sept. 7 1927.”
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- Title
- Anis-Ta-ma-Ka
- Date
- 1927
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.0 x 24.0 cm
- Description
- A head and shoulders portrait of a First Nations Chief in full headdress. He is turned slightly to the right, his right hand is raised in salute. Written in the lower right corner is “To my fine old friend Col. Moore Anis-ta-ma-ka Pal. Banff, Sept. 7 1927.”
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- PeR.03.03
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- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.04
- Description
- An antelope faces to the right in fully body profile. Grass lines the bottom of the image. At the lower right corner of the matt “IP 33.” On the back of the image is an erased sketch of a person riding a horse on the right, and a person holding a rope on the left.
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- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Title
- Antelope Buck
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 20.3 cm
- Description
- An antelope faces to the right in fully body profile. Grass lines the bottom of the image. At the lower right corner of the matt “IP 33.” On the back of the image is an erased sketch of a person riding a horse on the right, and a person holding a rope on the left.
- Credit
- Gift of Peggy Dixon, Milk River, 2012
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.04
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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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- 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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Bighorn Ram head
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactruc.03.09
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.03.09
- Description
- A finely detailed drawing of a ram's head, facing to the right of picture
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- Title
- Bighorn Ram head
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 29.0 x 22.5 cm
- Description
- A finely detailed drawing of a ram's head, facing to the right of picture
- Subject
- animal, mountain sheep
- ram
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.03.09
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Boats in Harbour
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.289
- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.289
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- Title
- Boats in Harbour
- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 8 x 19 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.289
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- Date
- 1900 – 1965
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.03
- Description
- General colour: white, blue, orange, green on brown. A mountain with purple, blue and orange slopes on the left. A bank of green on the right and snow and rock face above and center. Vague blue and cream shadings in the sky.
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- Title
- Bow Glacier
- Date
- 1900 – 1965
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 24.0 x 30.4 cm
- Description
- General colour: white, blue, orange, green on brown. A mountain with purple, blue and orange slopes on the left. A bank of green on the right and snow and rock face above and center. Vague blue and cream shadings in the sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountains
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.03
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Brazeau Snowfield, Jasper
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacthal.03.01
- 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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Building and Tree
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.516
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on board
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.516
- Description
- Drawing of a building in the background, framed by trees in the foreground.
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- Title
- Building and Tree
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on board
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 38.0 cm
- Description
- Drawing of a building in the background, framed by trees in the foreground.
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.516
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- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- JaA.03.06
- Description
- Pencil sketch of foothills with mountain range in background. A river indicated in foreground flows from left bottom corner to right, brc is river bank. Light and heavy pencil lines with shading, indicating trees and hills. Colour notes throughout. Drawing made on light sketchbook paper, serra…
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- Title
- Burnt Wood
- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.7 x 27.8 cm
- Description
- Pencil sketch of foothills with mountain range in background. A river indicated in foreground flows from left bottom corner to right, brc is river bank. Light and heavy pencil lines with shading, indicating trees and hills. Colour notes throughout. Drawing made on light sketchbook paper, serrated top edge, rounded corners bl and br.
- Credit
- Gift of Naomi Jackson Groves, Ottawa, 1989
- Catalogue Number
- JaA.03.06
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By Royal Appointment
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.467
- 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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Canton, China, Typical Street Scene
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.005
- 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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Chinese Mothers, Canton, China
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.004
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.004
- Description
- A group of three adults stand center. Flanking the man in red in the center is a woman in beige to the left with a child on her back in a red pouch, and to the right another woman in light orange with a child on her back in a green pouch. Behind them is a step up on to an area where a figure in b…
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- Title
- Chinese Mothers, Canton, China
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.4 x 23.0 cm
- Description
- A group of three adults stand center. Flanking the man in red in the center is a woman in beige to the left with a child on her back in a red pouch, and to the right another woman in light orange with a child on her back in a green pouch. Behind them is a step up on to an area where a figure in blue sits playing a flute. Behind him in the background is another figure bending over a desk, pen in hand. Setting is washed in brown and green.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.004
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Churchyard, Sandwich Kent
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.083
- Date
- c. 1909
- Medium
- graphite on paper board
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.083
- Description
- Scene with a stone wall to the left and some trees to the right and a church in the middle background.“This sketch probably dates from 1909 when the Collings family lived in Sandwich in the year prior to their emigration to Canada.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda …
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- Title
- Churchyard, Sandwich Kent
- Date
- c. 1909
- Medium
- graphite on paper board
- Dimensions
- 28.5 x 38 cm
- Description
- Scene with a stone wall to the left and some trees to the right and a church in the middle background.“This sketch probably dates from 1909 when the Collings family lived in Sandwich in the year prior to their emigration to Canada.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda HeathOn the back is a sketch of the port side of a ship with a life boat of pulleys.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.083
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- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.292
- Description
- A series of ten drawings, two of which join together to form one large. All drawings relate together in that they are all on the same place and action of men at work. Originally they were in a folded piece of cardboard entitled Cider Pound.
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- Title
- Cider Pound
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 26 x 20 cm
- Description
- A series of ten drawings, two of which join together to form one large. All drawings relate together in that they are all on the same place and action of men at work. Originally they were in a folded piece of cardboard entitled Cider Pound.
- Subject
- men
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.292
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- Date
- c. 1905
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.268
- Description
- A vague outline or image of an animal.
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- Title
- Cow ?
- Date
- c. 1905
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 4.5 x 9.5 cm
- Description
- A vague outline or image of an animal.
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.268
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- Date
- c. 1905
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.255
- Description
- A rough sketch of a group of 5-6 cows with their backs to the viewer.
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- Title
- Cow Sketches
- Date
- c. 1905
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 18 x 22.5 cm
- Description
- A rough sketch of a group of 5-6 cows with their backs to the viewer.
- Subject
- landscape
- animal, cows
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.255
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Cows on Hillside
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- Date
- c. 1905
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.264
- Description
- Sketch is of seven cows standing and laying down amongst grass.
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- Title
- Cows on Hillside
- Date
- c. 1905
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 10 x 15 cm
- Description
- Sketch is of seven cows standing and laying down amongst grass.
- Subject
- landscape
- animal, cows
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.264
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