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Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.256

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.256

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Bow Lake, Bow Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.239

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake, Bow Glacier

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.239

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Bow Lake, Mount Hector

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955 – 1965

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.238

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake, Mount Hector

Date: 1955 – 1965

Medium: oil on canvas

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.238

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Bow Lake, St. Nicholas Peak

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.250

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake, St. Nicholas Peak

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.250

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The Brewster Homestead (Banff)

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Artist: Ella May Walker (1892 – 1960, Canadian)

Date: 1951

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WaE.02.01

Description: A log house dominates the pictures, out buildings to the left of the house, wood fencing both sides; green/brown grasses foreground, evergreen trees behind house; mountains to left and right top of picture; some clouds in blue sky.

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Artist: Ella May Walker (1892 – 1960, Canadian)

Title: The Brewster Homestead (Banff)

Date: 1951

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 56.3 x 71.5 cm

Description: A log house dominates the pictures, out buildings to the left of the house, wood fencing both sides; green/brown grasses foreground, evergreen trees behind house; mountains to left and right top of picture; some clouds in blue sky.

Subject: architecture, rural; Mount Rundle; landscape, mountain

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: WaE.02.01

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Buffalo Hunt

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.06

Description: Two jumping bison, facing left are being chased by an man on a brown horse, he has a bow and arrow ready to shoot at the bison. The horizon runs across page just below centre line. The plain is brown, the sky is blue to the right and white/yellow the left half of picture.

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Title: Buffalo Hunt

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 23.0 x 30.0 cm

Description: Two jumping bison, facing left are being chased by an man on a brown horse, he has a bow and arrow ready to shoot at the bison. The horizon runs across page just below centre line. The plain is brown, the sky is blue to the right and white/yellow the left half of picture.

Subject: landscape, prairie; animal, buffalo, horse; figure, male; hunting; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.06

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Buffalo Jump

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.01

Description: Three people on horseback, one waving a bright red flag, are chasing some bison over a cliff. The cliff, right foreground is green, the valley below is light green with two brownish hills. The sky is blue with two white clouds.

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Title: Buffalo Jump

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 23 x 30.0 cm

Description: Three people on horseback, one waving a bright red flag, are chasing some bison over a cliff. The cliff, right foreground is green, the valley below is light green with two brownish hills. The sky is blue with two white clouds.

Subject: landscape; animal, buffalo, horse; figure, male; hunting; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.01

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Buffalo Stampede

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955 – 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.581

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Buffalo Stampede

Date: 1955 – 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 9.6 x 21.7 cm

Subject: activity; stampede; animal; buffalo

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.581

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Building a Log House

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Artist: Grace Carswell

Date: 1955

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CaG.05.01

Description: A primitive style painting of a pioneer scene, a log house building, with much activity around it. Lush trees in background, blue sky centre top, a blue river runs bottom left corner to centre right. Off centre right stands a red coated man with hat and long barrelled rifle talking to another man…

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Artist: Grace Carswell

Title: Building a Log House

Date: 1955

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 17.8 x 22.7 cm

Description: A primitive style painting of a pioneer scene, a log house building, with much activity around it. Lush trees in background, blue sky centre top, a blue river runs bottom left corner to centre right. Off centre right stands a red coated man with hat and long barrelled rifle talking to another man dressed in buckskin, also with a long barrelled rifle

Subject: landscape; historical; genre

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1988

Catalogue Number: CaG.05.01

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Burial of Chief David Bearspaw

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.030

Description: Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Burial of Chief David Bearspaw

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 61.8 x 74.5 cm

Description: Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; figure; group; religious; funeral; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.030

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Camp at Dusk

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.566

Description: A sketch or unfinished painting of a ring of nine teepees. The teepee in the foreground, viewer’s right, is the largest, has inside firelight and shadows visible. The teepee, in the foreground, viewer’s left, is partially visible, with shadows and light from within visible. There are two figures in…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Camp at Dusk

Date: 1950 – 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 27.0 x 71.0 cm

Description: A sketch or unfinished painting of a ring of nine teepees. The teepee in the foreground, viewer’s right, is the largest, has inside firelight and shadows visible. The teepee, in the foreground, viewer’s left, is partially visible, with shadows and light from within visible. There are two figures in the foreground, one in red, and one in blue and yellow and suggestions of others in the background. There is a low blue sky dusk descending overhead.

Subject: landscape; camp; teepee; figure; group; Peter Whyte; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.566

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Camp Scene

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955 – 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.580

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Camp Scene

Date: 1955 – 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 9.4 x 21.4 cm

Subject: landscape; camp; teepee; figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.580

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Camp Scene

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955 – 1957

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.582

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Camp Scene

Date: 1955 – 1957

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 9.7 x 21.4 cm

Subject: camp; teepee; figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.582

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Canyons Of Muskwa, Northern B.C.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1970

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.04

Description: General colour: green, blue, brown. Boulders and rock face rise up on left and right side. Water winds up from bottom center towards left side and disappears around the bend. Blue and white mountains peek over the foreround rocks. Beyond is clouded blue sky.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Canyons Of Muskwa, Northern B.C.

Date: prior to 1970

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 30.5 x 46.7 cm

Description: General colour: green, blue, brown. Boulders and rock face rise up on left and right side. Water winds up from bottom center towards left side and disappears around the bend. Blue and white mountains peek over the foreround rocks. Beyond is clouded blue sky.