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Before the White Man Came
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsij.05.30
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.30
- Description
- The painting is dominated by a large bison midcentre left grazing in a herd in the foothills. The mountains are behind under a dark blue and yellow sky.
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- Title
- Before the White Man Came
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 11.3 x 16.3 cm
- Description
- The painting is dominated by a large bison midcentre left grazing in a herd in the foothills. The mountains are behind under a dark blue and yellow sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.30
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Big Rock at Lake O'Hara
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.217
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.217
- Description
- A rugged rocky cliff surrounded by evergreens is located along the shores of Lake O'Hara. It ranges in colour from purples to yellow and orange. Lake O'Hara is depicted in slid turquoise. The mountains appear overhead beyond the cliffs with cobalt blue peering through top centre.
1 image
- Title
- Big Rock at Lake O'Hara
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- A rugged rocky cliff surrounded by evergreens is located along the shores of Lake O'Hara. It ranges in colour from purples to yellow and orange. Lake O'Hara is depicted in slid turquoise. The mountains appear overhead beyond the cliffs with cobalt blue peering through top centre.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.217
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Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsij.05.34
- Date
- 1966
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.34
- Description
- Merry Xmas & Happy New Year from Mr. & Mrs. J. Simpson Sr. 1966-7.
- Title
- Canadian Rockies
- Date
- 1966
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.5 x 11.0 cm
- Description
- Merry Xmas & Happy New Year from Mr. & Mrs. J. Simpson Sr. 1966-7.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.34
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Cathedral Mountain
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.330
- Date
- 1929 – 1930
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.330
- Description
- Lower third of painting is green with trees, upper two thirds is purple hills and mountain which is orange and has a patch of white on right slope, the sky is light blue-grey.
1 image
- Title
- Cathedral Mountain
- Date
- 1929 – 1930
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 13.4 x 15.0 cm
- Description
- Lower third of painting is green with trees, upper two thirds is purple hills and mountain which is orange and has a patch of white on right slope, the sky is light blue-grey.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.330
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Cathedral Mountain in Wapta Muck
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.231
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.231
- Description
- Cathedral rises through the whisps of circling cloud covering. The green blue, splashes of paint at the base of the mountain gives the impression of a thick forest. Beige strokes of paint stretch up to the purplish mass of rock beyond the treeline. Catharine is encompassed by a grey sky.
1 image
- Title
- Cathedral Mountain in Wapta Muck
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- Cathedral rises through the whisps of circling cloud covering. The green blue, splashes of paint at the base of the mountain gives the impression of a thick forest. Beige strokes of paint stretch up to the purplish mass of rock beyond the treeline. Catharine is encompassed by a grey sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.231
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Inuit Boy at Povungnituk
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.171
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.171
- Description
- Portrait of an Inuk boy.
1 image
- Title
- Inuit Boy at Povungnituk
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Portrait of an Inuk boy.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.171
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Inuit Boy at Povungnituk
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.169
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.169
- Description
- Portrait of an Inuk boy.
1 image
- Title
- Inuit Boy at Povungnituk
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Portrait of an Inuk boy.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.169
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Inuit Boy, Povungnituk
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.176
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.176
- Description
- Portrait of an Inuk boy.
1 image
- Title
- Inuit Boy, Povungnituk
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Portrait of an Inuk boy.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.176
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- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.411
- Description
- A full face head and shoulders portrait of a young Inuit child. She is wearing a peaked hood blue parka with brown fur trim. The painting appears unfinished.
1 image
- Title
- Inuit Child
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.0 x 27.5 cm
- Description
- A full face head and shoulders portrait of a young Inuit child. She is wearing a peaked hood blue parka with brown fur trim. The painting appears unfinished.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.411
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Inuit Girl at Povungnituk
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.172
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.172
- Description
- Portrait of an Inuk girl in Povungnituk.
1 image
- Title
- Inuit Girl at Povungnituk
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Portrait of an Inuk girl in Povungnituk.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.172
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Inuk Girl Guide at Povungnituk
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.170
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.170
- Description
- Portrait of an Inuk girl in Povungnituk.
1 image
- Title
- Inuk Girl Guide at Povungnituk
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Portrait of an Inuk girl in Povungnituk.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.170
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- Date
- 1968 – 1969
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.177
- Description
- Lake McArthur lies below a large navy grey mass of mountain face, which comprises 2/3 of the sketch. Various cloud formations are draped across the mountain side obscuring any actual details of the mountain. Reddish brown rocks stretch across the immediate ridges of the sketch overlooking the lake …
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- Title
- Lake McArthur
- Date
- 1968 – 1969
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Lake McArthur lies below a large navy grey mass of mountain face, which comprises 2/3 of the sketch. Various cloud formations are draped across the mountain side obscuring any actual details of the mountain. Reddish brown rocks stretch across the immediate ridges of the sketch overlooking the lake below.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.177
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Lake O'Hara, Opabin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.220
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.220
- Description
- The dark evergreens create a high wall of solid green colour behind the deep blue water of Lake O'Hara. The rough terrain of the mountain peaks Hungabee and Biddle stretch across the canvas above the treeline. A grey sky forecasts the arrival of an impending storm.
1 image
- Title
- Lake O'Hara, Opabin
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- The dark evergreens create a high wall of solid green colour behind the deep blue water of Lake O'Hara. The rough terrain of the mountain peaks Hungabee and Biddle stretch across the canvas above the treeline. A grey sky forecasts the arrival of an impending storm.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.220
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- Date
- c. 1934
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.432
- Description
- an unfinished painting of a woman wearing a red lei. She is painted in 3/4 view facing to viewers left. HEr brown hair is in a ponytail at the nape of her neck.
1 image
- Title
- [Mabel?]
- Date
- c. 1934
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 63.0 x 53.0 cm
- Description
- an unfinished painting of a woman wearing a red lei. She is painted in 3/4 view facing to viewers left. HEr brown hair is in a ponytail at the nape of her neck.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.432
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Man's Head and Torso
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.02.10
- Date
- 1928 – 1930
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.02.10
- Description
- A portrait of a young man. He is facing to the right, has red hair and a mustache. His shoulders and arms are well defined, he is wearing a dark coloured belt. The background is dark blue. Unfinished near the bottom.
1 image
- Title
- Man's Head and Torso
- Date
- 1928 – 1930
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 75.0 x 60.0 cm
- Description
- A portrait of a young man. He is facing to the right, has red hair and a mustache. His shoulders and arms are well defined, he is wearing a dark coloured belt. The background is dark blue. Unfinished near the bottom.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.02.10
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Man's Portrait
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.02.08
- Date
- 1928 – 1930
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.02.08
- Description
- A head and shoulders portrait of an elderly man. He is facing to the right showing a partial left profile. His hair is white, small glasses. Wearing a large light green jacket with and orange tie.
1 image
- Title
- Man's Portrait
- Date
- 1928 – 1930
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 52.0 x 42.0 cm
- Description
- A head and shoulders portrait of an elderly man. He is facing to the right showing a partial left profile. His hair is white, small glasses. Wearing a large light green jacket with and orange tie.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.02.08
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- Date
- 1967 – 1970
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.356
- Description
- Rough lake sketch, foreground is suggested with dry brush stokes of brown, lake solid turquoise colour, pine tree on the left side (edge of lake), grey mountain centre background, which is filled in behind with dry brush strokes of dark grey.
1 image
- Title
- Moraine Lake
- Date
- 1967 – 1970
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- Rough lake sketch, foreground is suggested with dry brush stokes of brown, lake solid turquoise colour, pine tree on the left side (edge of lake), grey mountain centre background, which is filled in behind with dry brush strokes of dark grey.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.356
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Mount Athabasca
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.355
- Date
- 1967 – 1970
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.355
- Description
- Very rough sketch of mountain scene, the blue paint has been used to create the outline of the mountains, rather than the mountains being a solid filled in mass.
1 image
- Title
- Mount Athabasca
- Date
- 1967 – 1970
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- Very rough sketch of mountain scene, the blue paint has been used to create the outline of the mountains, rather than the mountains being a solid filled in mass.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.355
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Mount Eisenhower
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.218
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.218
- Description
- The rugged terrain of Mt. Eisenhower rises from the dark black-green illusive treeline. A grey-blue wash surrounds the rocky peaks.
1 image
- Title
- Mount Eisenhower
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- The rugged terrain of Mt. Eisenhower rises from the dark black-green illusive treeline. A grey-blue wash surrounds the rocky peaks.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.218
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Mount Eisenhower
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.219
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas on aluminum
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.219
- Description
- This is a very close sketch of Mt. Eisenhower. The cliffs of the mountains are gold in colour. The varying row of blue and green vertical strip of paint signify a treeline at the base of the mountain. Patches of periodic blue paint indicate a blue sky.
1 image
- Title
- Mount Eisenhower
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas on aluminum
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- This is a very close sketch of Mt. Eisenhower. The cliffs of the mountains are gold in colour. The varying row of blue and green vertical strip of paint signify a treeline at the base of the mountain. Patches of periodic blue paint indicate a blue sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.219
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