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Two Indians

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Artist: Reinhold H. Palenske (1884 – 1955, American)

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: PeR.03.04

Description: Two men are sitting in front of a tepee. The one nearest is smoking a long pipe.

Artist: Reinhold H. Palenske (1884 – 1955, American)

Title: Two Indians

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 cm

Description: Two men are sitting in front of a tepee. The one nearest is smoking a long pipe.

Subject: figure; male; group; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: PeR.03.04

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Artist: Guy Wesley

Date: 1934

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WeG.03.01

Description: Colour: pencil on white. Flowers and grass fill the lower quarter. The Lake is above and in the background are two treed slopes which rise up on either side of a glacier at center. Clouds and sky fill the top quarter.

Artist: Guy Wesley

Title: Untitled

Date: 1934

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 14.8 x 22.3 cm

Description: Colour: pencil on white. Flowers and grass fill the lower quarter. The Lake is above and in the background are two treed slopes which rise up on either side of a glacier at center. Clouds and sky fill the top quarter.

Subject: landscape, mountain; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Gordon E Lock, 1968

Catalogue Number: WeG.03.01

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Artist: Guy Wesley

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WeG.03.02

Description: Colour: pencil on white. Central image is a road from lower left corner to center up to mid center of the picture. The road shadowed by grass and trees on either side. Three mountains appear in the background.

Artist: Guy Wesley

Title: Untitled

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 17.4 x 14.9 cm

Description: Colour: pencil on white. Central image is a road from lower left corner to center up to mid center of the picture. The road shadowed by grass and trees on either side. Three mountains appear in the background.

Subject: landscape, mountain; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Gordon E Lock, 1968

Catalogue Number: WeG.03.02

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Artist: Guy Wesley

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WeG.03.03

Description: Colour: pencil on white. Central image is a waterfall with rocks on either side and mountains in the background at centre. Trees on an island come in from the left side. Shools of rock run horizontally along the bottom and here and there up to the falls.

Artist: Guy Wesley

Title: Untitled

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 14.7 x 22.4 cm

Description: Colour: pencil on white. Central image is a waterfall with rocks on either side and mountains in the background at centre. Trees on an island come in from the left side. Shools of rock run horizontally along the bottom and here and there up to the falls.

Subject: landscape, mountain; river; waterfall; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Gordon E Lock, 1968

Catalogue Number: WeG.03.03

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.04

Description: A page full of sketches: a head of a ram, a ram's horn, a bear's head, a running bear, a pawing bear, a kneeling horse, 2 standing horses, one rear view,a bison and an elephant. A flat topped mountain is seen in background, centre right.

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 38.0 cm

Description: A page full of sketches: a head of a ram, a ram's horn, a bear's head, a running bear, a pawing bear, a kneeling horse, 2 standing horses, one rear view,a bison and an elephant. A flat topped mountain is seen in background, centre right.

Subject: landscape; mountain; animal, ram, bear, horse, buffalo, elephant

Credit: Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.04

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.03

Description: A page full of sketches - a saddled horse, a bison, a long horn and an elephant.

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 18.3 x 31.0 cm

Description: A page full of sketches - a saddled horse, a bison, a long horn and an elephant.

Subject: Animal, horse, cow, elephant

Credit: Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.03

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1931 – 1934

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.300

Description: Ski scene sktech. Skier in crouched position at bottom of hill and in foreground. Five skiers behind lying at various spots who appear to have been hit by first skier. Four small figures in trc of image.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1931 – 1934

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 16.0 x 10.2 cm

Description: Ski scene sktech. Skier in crouched position at bottom of hill and in foreground. Five skiers behind lying at various spots who appear to have been hit by first skier. Four small figures in trc of image.

Subject: sketch; cartoon; skiing

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.300

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.02

Description: Sketches of a man standing, a man running and a horse's fetlock and hoof on one side of fold; 4 sketches of horses on the other. The reverse on the sheet has two sketches of saddles, the other side of the fold has sketches of horses, one saddled (no bridle) one running, and the head and eye of anot…

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 18.3 x 30.9 cm

Description: Sketches of a man standing, a man running and a horse's fetlock and hoof on one side of fold; 4 sketches of horses on the other. The reverse on the sheet has two sketches of saddles, the other side of the fold has sketches of horses, one saddled (no bridle) one running, and the head and eye of another.

Subject: figure, man; animal, horse

Credit: Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.02

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Artist: George Bertrand Mitchell (1872 – 1966, American)

Date: 1935

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: MiG.03.02

Description: Shoulders and head of a man, wearing suit and tie and a hat, facing right. G. B. Mitchell, Banff, Aug. 28/35.

Artist: George Bertrand Mitchell (1872 – 1966, American)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1935

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25; 37.8 x 18; 25.3 cm

Description: Shoulders and head of a man, wearing suit and tie and a hat, facing right. G. B. Mitchell, Banff, Aug. 28/35.

Subject: portrait, male

Credit: Gift of Joe A. Brewster, Banff, 1980

Catalogue Number: MiG.03.02

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Artist: Kathleen Shackleton (1884 – 1961)

Date: 1938

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: ShK.03.01

Description: Centered in the image frame is a portrait of a man. The male figure in this image is wearing a brimed hat and has a pipe in his mouth. The portrait is not a straight on angle the angle here is a three quarter angle. The subject Mr. Carl Rungius is looking to his right with his left side of his face…

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Artist: Kathleen Shackleton (1884 – 1961)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1938

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 34.4 x 31.6 cm

Description: Centered in the image frame is a portrait of a man. The male figure in this image is wearing a brimed hat and has a pipe in his mouth. The portrait is not a straight on angle the angle here is a three quarter angle. The subject Mr. Carl Rungius is looking to his right with his left side of his face facing us. The subject here is wearing a collared coat and round glasses.

Subject: figure; male; portrait; Carl Rungius

Credit: Gift of Jack Hutchison, Vancouver, 1996

Catalogue Number: ShK.03.01

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.081

Description: Drawing of people on a beach. Small preliminary sketch of man lying down in TRC.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1934

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 23 x 30 cm

Description: Drawing of people on a beach. Small preliminary sketch of man lying down in TRC.

Subject: beach; bathing suit; umbrella

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.081

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1939 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.347

Description: A pencil drawing of a female figure in a nurse’s uniform. The woman wears pillbox hat with a sash of material hanging from it. Her face is not clearly rendered. She stands with her right side to the viewer and holds in her hand a cigarette,Beside this figure is a small square with a hospital scene.…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1939 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.2 cm

Description: A pencil drawing of a female figure in a nurse’s uniform. The woman wears pillbox hat with a sash of material hanging from it. Her face is not clearly rendered. She stands with her right side to the viewer and holds in her hand a cigarette,Beside this figure is a small square with a hospital scene. Someone appears to be attending to a patient in bed, but the image is very crudely sketched.There is another drawing of what might be a disembodied hand holding a mug just below this hospital scene.Another sketch of a nurse’s head appears below the more finished nurse drawing.

Subject: recovery; medicine; hospital; nurse; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.347

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.365

Description: A pencil sketch of two cars whose style appears to date to the 1930s or 1940s. THe sketches are arranged vertically and the top car is rendered more roughly than the bottom car, which appears to have human figures in it.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 21.0 cm

Description: A pencil sketch of two cars whose style appears to date to the 1930s or 1940s. THe sketches are arranged vertically and the top car is rendered more roughly than the bottom car, which appears to have human figures in it.

Subject: cars; vehicles; transportation; drawing; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.365

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1939

Medium: graphite on paper with decorative taped border

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.289

Description: Pencil drawing of man in hospital bed and nurse. The man sits up in a bed in the right side of the image with a surprised expression. He looks towards the nurse, who enters the room from the left, pushing a cart that holds many sharp instruments. On the left wall, a mirrored dresser and door is vis…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930 – 1939

Medium: graphite on paper with decorative taped border

Dimensions: 30.5 x 45.5 cm

Description: Pencil drawing of man in hospital bed and nurse. The man sits up in a bed in the right side of the image with a surprised expression. He looks towards the nurse, who enters the room from the left, pushing a cart that holds many sharp instruments. On the left wall, a mirrored dresser and door is visible. To the right of the bed is a night table with various cups sitting on top. Inscription in top right corner: TWENTY DIFFERENT KINDS OF SAWS AND KNIVES MAY HAVE TO BE MANUFACTURED BY MASS PRODUCTION TO REMOVE THE THING WHICH YOU HAD FIRST.verso, in cursive: never lose hope when you fall sick and they don’t know what it is. You may be the [person/primer/premier?], the first joyful victim of a new surgical era. TWENTY DIFFERENT KINDS OF SAWS AND KNIVES MAY HAVE TO BE MANUFACTURED BY MASS PRODUCTION TO REMOVE THE THING WHICH YOU HAD FIRST.Support is framed with tape that is marbled green and dark green

Subject: hospital; nurse; medical, sickness

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.289

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1945

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.294

Description: Various pencil dawaings of figures on rowboats, canoes, and bicycles. Some figures, such as the one on the bicycle appear to be in uniform, whether that be military or postman?. One of the more comical drawings is in the top right corner, where a woman rides in a rowboat called DAISY. She is so hea…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930 – 1945

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 52.5 x 35.5 cm

Description: Various pencil dawaings of figures on rowboats, canoes, and bicycles. Some figures, such as the one on the bicycle appear to be in uniform, whether that be military or postman?. One of the more comical drawings is in the top right corner, where a woman rides in a rowboat called DAISY. She is so heavy that the man rowing is lifted out of the water in the opposite side of the boat. One boat is called DAISY, another canoe is called BABE.

Subject: boats; bicycles; humour

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.294

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1939 – 1945

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.313

Description: Rough pencil sketch of a very low angle of a man in a kilt stepping forward while planes fly overhead. The man may be drawn wearing a gas mask. The viewer is positioned close to the ground, as indicated by the disproportionately large feet and tartan socks of the figure. A geographical feature is o…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1939 – 1945

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25.5 x 16.0 cm

Description: Rough pencil sketch of a very low angle of a man in a kilt stepping forward while planes fly overhead. The man may be drawn wearing a gas mask. The viewer is positioned close to the ground, as indicated by the disproportionately large feet and tartan socks of the figure. A geographical feature is on the left edge. Below and to the right of the figure reads : SCOOT

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.313

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1939 – 1945

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.314

Description: A pencil drawing of a male figure in a kilt making note of labels on a scale/sign. This scale/sign resembles a thermometer but is labeled, in descending order with the following descriptors: GOOD; PRETTY GOOOD; AWFULLLL GOOOOOD; NOT SO BAAAD; OK. The man’s head turns towards the GOOD on the scale …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1939 – 1945

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25.3 x 16.3 cm

Description: A pencil drawing of a male figure in a kilt making note of labels on a scale/sign. This scale/sign resembles a thermometer but is labeled, in descending order with the following descriptors: GOOD; PRETTY GOOOD; AWFULLLL GOOOOOD; NOT SO BAAAD; OK. The man’s head turns towards the GOOD on the scale as he walks along the ground line, which transects the scale.

Subject: kilt; man; scale

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.314

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1939 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.324

Description: Pencil drawing on paper of battle scene on hills with VIMY monument on middle ground. A figure in quilt lies face down in front of monument and simplified figures are scattered on hill behind him.TLC - BOO!!!!

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1939 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25.5 x 16.1 cm

Description: Pencil drawing on paper of battle scene on hills with VIMY monument on middle ground. A figure in quilt lies face down in front of monument and simplified figures are scattered on hill behind him.TLC - BOO!!!!