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Cabin at Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Marion Boyd Allen (1862 – 1941, American)

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: AbM.02.01

Description: General colours: brown, green, purple and red. Central image is a log cabin coming out from left side. The front door is framed on either side by colourful hanging clothes and Aivo chairs, one on each side. In the background to the right is another cabin. Behind and above are trees, a patch of grey…

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Artist: Marion Boyd Allen (1862 – 1941, American)

Title: Cabin at Lake O'Hara

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20.2 x 25.6 cm

Description: General colours: brown, green, purple and red. Central image is a log cabin coming out from left side. The front door is framed on either side by colourful hanging clothes and Aivo chairs, one on each side. In the background to the right is another cabin. Behind and above are trees, a patch of grey sky in the upper right corner and a purple mountain face in the upper left.The painting was originally given by the artist, to Syd Graves (who managed Lake O’Hara for many years). It was then given to Bill Brewster, who gave it to Rita Crick, who gave it to the Peter Whyte Gallery.

Subject: architecture; cabin; landscape; Canadian Rockies; Lake O'Hara area

Credit: Gift of Rita Crick, 1978

Catalogue Number: AbM.02.01

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The Concord Home

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

Date: 1927 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.061

Description: Robb home in Concord, surrounded by trees.

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

Title: The Concord Home

Date: 1927 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 22.8 cm

Description: Robb home in Concord, surrounded by trees.

Subject: architecture; house; forest

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.061

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Rural Scene, Eastern Canada

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

Date: 1958

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.374

Description: The bottom half of the painting is a pond with lots of weeds . The area behind the water is farm land. Sitting at the top of the hill is a yellow house and a grey barn with a light brown road coming from between the buildings.

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

Title: Rural Scene, Eastern Canada

Date: 1958

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.0 x 30.2 cm

Description: The bottom half of the painting is a pond with lots of weeds . The area behind the water is farm land. Sitting at the top of the hill is a yellow house and a grey barn with a light brown road coming from between the buildings.