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Kitwanga

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

Date: prior to 1973

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.081

Description: Three totem poles, mountains behind.

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

Title: Kitwanga

Date: prior to 1973

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: Three totem poles, mountains behind.

Subject: religious; totem pole; landscape; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.081

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Lake Louise

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.413

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake Louise

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.413

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Lake Louise, Fall

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.116

Description: Colour: light blue, brown, black. The lower area is lake. From the center on each side rise black mountain slopes. The blue glacier sits in the middle. Above that are brown mountain slopes and blue tops. Some sky visible in te upper left and along the edge.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake Louise, Fall

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: light blue, brown, black. The lower area is lake. From the center on each side rise black mountain slopes. The blue glacier sits in the middle. Above that are brown mountain slopes and blue tops. Some sky visible in te upper left and along the edge.

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.116

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Lake Louise, Mount Lefroy and Mount Victoria

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.079

Description: Colour: white, blue, brown. The lower edge is rocks with a tree standing on the left side and a dead bush on the right. The lake is frozen to a third the way up. Snow and treed mountain slopes rise up beyond. The glacier can be seen on the right. A patch of blue sky is at the upper edge in the cent…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake Louise, Mount Lefroy and Mount Victoria

Date: 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: white, blue, brown. The lower edge is rocks with a tree standing on the left side and a dead bush on the right. The lake is frozen to a third the way up. Snow and treed mountain slopes rise up beyond. The glacier can be seen on the right. A patch of blue sky is at the upper edge in the center.

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.079

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

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Making Camp

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.565

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Making Camp

Date: 1950 – 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 28.5 x 69.0 cm

Subject: landscape; activity; camp; figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.565

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Man Leading Horse

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.02

Description: Man dressed in brown and wearing a hat is opening a gate, leading a brown horse, saddled with a large yellow bedroll. The foreground is snow, green spruce trees to the left a leaning to the right, it appears windy. The horse's tail is blowing as is the man's scarf. A house with a yellow light comin…

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Title: Man Leading Horse

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 23 x 30 cm

Description: Man dressed in brown and wearing a hat is opening a gate, leading a brown horse, saddled with a large yellow bedroll. The foreground is snow, green spruce trees to the left a leaning to the right, it appears windy. The horse's tail is blowing as is the man's scarf. A house with a yellow light coming from a window is to the center right of picture. The sky is gray/blue, some yellow clouds on the horizon. Three mountain peaks in center right of picture.

Subject: landscape; winter; animal, horse; figure, male

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

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.02

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Maple Creek, Border of Alberta

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1875

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.43

Description: Scene of grassy field leading to the distance with the red roof of some houses seen.“This very yellow landscape appears to have been an early experiment, lacking Collings’ finesse and resulting in ‘rubbed’ paper in the left portion of the sky.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Rai…

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Maple Creek, Border of Alberta

Date: c. 1875

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 13.5 x 19 cm

Description: Scene of grassy field leading to the distance with the red roof of some houses seen.“This very yellow landscape appears to have been an early experiment, lacking Collings’ finesse and resulting in ‘rubbed’ paper in the left portion of the sky.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape; yellow

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1986

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.43

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Marble Halls

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: 1880

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.45

Description: Scene of a valley with outcroppings of dark rust/red rocks to the right and forground right, trees to the left middle, and mountains in the distance.

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Marble Halls

Date: 1880

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 13.5 x 14 cm

Description: Scene of a valley with outcroppings of dark rust/red rocks to the right and forground right, trees to the left middle, and mountains in the distance.

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1986

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.45

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Molar Pass

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1954

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.10

Description: General colour: blue, grey. Rocks go along the bottom edge and out from the left in big boulders. These mark the edge of a pool of water. A piece of land with boulders comes out from the right one third up. Behind are blue mountains partly hidden by enveloping clouds.

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Molar Pass

Date: 1954

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 26.5 x 38.0 cm

Description: General colour: blue, grey. Rocks go along the bottom edge and out from the left in big boulders. These mark the edge of a pool of water. A piece of land with boulders comes out from the right one third up. Behind are blue mountains partly hidden by enveloping clouds.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.10

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Moose at water's edge

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Artist: R. L. Hunter

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.03

Description: The foreground is a green grass and tree rimmed lake, a moose enters the lake near centre edge, grey mountains in background, light blue sky, large white cloud covers most of sky, edge of another cloud at right border

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Artist: R. L. Hunter

Title: Moose at water's edge

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 42.5 cm

Description: The foreground is a green grass and tree rimmed lake, a moose enters the lake near centre edge, grey mountains in background, light blue sky, large white cloud covers most of sky, edge of another cloud at right border

Subject: landscape; mountain; animal; moose

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

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.03

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Mount Hector, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.363

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mount Hector, Bow Lake

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on masonite

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.01.363

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Mount Hector, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.366

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mount Hector, Bow Lake

Date: 1955 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.3 x 30.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.366

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Mount Ishbel

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.416

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mount Ishbel

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.3 x 30.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.416

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Mount Lefroy from Beehive

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.118

Description: Colour: pale blue, yellow, green. A single peak can be seen in the distance between two larch trees in the foreground. On the right side is a shorter larch tree and a mountain ridge in he distance.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mount Lefroy from Beehive

Date: 1955 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: pale blue, yellow, green. A single peak can be seen in the distance between two larch trees in the foreground. On the right side is a shorter larch tree and a mountain ridge in he distance.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.118

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

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Mount Lefroy from the Big Beehive

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

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.167

Description: Mount Lefroy from Big Beehive.

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

Title: Mount Lefroy from the Big Beehive

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Mount Lefroy from Big Beehive.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Mt. Lefroy; Big Beehive

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.167

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Mount Rundle

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Artist: Takao Tanabe (1926 – , Canadian)

Date: 1953

Medium: felt pen on paper

Catalogue Number: TaT.03.01

Description: Mount Rundle in silhouette, top across picture light black felt pen, short strokes indicating trees a strong right to left angle, very sketchy. On back: Sept. 15/53. to Elizabeth tak.

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Artist: Takao Tanabe (1926 – , Canadian)

Title: Mount Rundle

Date: 1953

Medium: felt pen on paper

Dimensions: 24.8 x 34.9 cm

Description: Mount Rundle in silhouette, top across picture light black felt pen, short strokes indicating trees a strong right to left angle, very sketchy. On back: Sept. 15/53. to Elizabeth tak.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of Elizabeth Rummel, Banff, 1981

Catalogue Number: TaT.03.01

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Mount Rundle

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.237

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mount Rundle

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.237

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Mount Rundle

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.04

Description: Dominant colours are purple, green, blue, brown, grey, yellow, and white. The painting is dominated by Mount Rundle and a cloud-filled blue sky. The foreground is grey rocks, a dead tree with the brown tree trunk and branches reaching right, above that coniferous trees viewer’s right; the middle fo…

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Mount Rundle

Date: 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 50.5 x 70.5 cm

Description: Dominant colours are purple, green, blue, brown, grey, yellow, and white. The painting is dominated by Mount Rundle and a cloud-filled blue sky. The foreground is grey rocks, a dead tree with the brown tree trunk and branches reaching right, above that coniferous trees viewer’s right; the middle foreground is made up of grey pebbles and small rocks with coniferous trees behind, the sun is shining on the mid- foreground and the viewer’s right highlighting the ground and trees. To the viewer’s right there is a pile of grey, brown, and beige rocks with two coniferous trees above and some yellow and brown bushes to the right of that; to the very far right the Bow River is visible and also above the bushes it is snaking its way through the valley toward Canmore. A purple-hued with some blue Tunnel (Buffalo) Mountain is in front of Mount Rundle. Mount Rundle is purple, grey, blue, pink and white with green patches to the right. The ranges on the viewer’s left are purple, grey and white and to the right of Mount Rundle they are blue, grey and white. The sky above which comprises one-third of the painting has more clouds than blue sky. The clouds are white, grey, brown growing into purple, grey and yellowish hues to the viewer’s right.