Search Results - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Best Wishes Peter

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.772

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1951

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.772

Description: Christmas card sketch, resembling the final version of the 1951 card. Animals gather around Catharine and Peter’s vehicle waiting for Catharine to finish cooking. Peter sits on the roof reading. One of the bears is sitting by a stool with a fork in hand. Near the middle of the bottom edge of the pa…

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Best Wishes Peter

Date: 1951

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 28.0 cm

Description: Christmas card sketch, resembling the final version of the 1951 card. Animals gather around Catharine and Peter’s vehicle waiting for Catharine to finish cooking. Peter sits on the roof reading. One of the bears is sitting by a stool with a fork in hand. Near the middle of the bottom edge of the paper it says “BEST WISHES PETER”verso: rectangular box drawn that is blank, that could have been used for another sketch.

Subject: bears; stool; fork; moose; birds; squirrel; rabbit; tree; cooking; pot; woman; man; reading; vehicle; Christmas card

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.772

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Bill Neish

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgyh.03.10

Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.10

Description: A portrait of a man, facing in three quarter profile to the left. He wears a cowboy hat and a knotted scarf around his neck. Inscribed at the bottom left “Bill Nish Warden”, signed “Glyde” at bottom right. On back “Bow Lake, 1936 with Reg Harvey.”

1 image

Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Bill Neish

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Description: A portrait of a man, facing in three quarter profile to the left. He wears a cowboy hat and a knotted scarf around his neck. Inscribed at the bottom left “Bill Nish Warden”, signed “Glyde” at bottom right. On back “Bow Lake, 1936 with Reg Harvey.”

Subject: Bill Neish; portrait; warden

Credit: Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.10

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Boat House

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgyh.03.28

Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: c. 1955

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.28

Description: A boat house interior is pictured, with a suggestion of several figures surrounding the centre of the work. Inscribed at the bottom left “Boat House July 16th R-40-55.”

1 image

Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Boat House

Date: c. 1955

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25 x 35 cm

Description: A boat house interior is pictured, with a suggestion of several figures surrounding the centre of the work. Inscribed at the bottom left “Boat House July 16th R-40-55.”

Subject: boat house; figures

Credit: Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.28

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Boat House, July 16th

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgyh.03.27

Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: c. 1955

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.27

Description: A mountain is sketched in the central background with the word “Sand” inscribed on it. Below the mountain is a small boat house which is surrounded by row boats in the foreground. All of the objects in the work are annotated with colour notes. Inscribed at the bottom left “Boat House July 16th 1930…

1 image

Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Boat House, July 16th

Date: c. 1955

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25 x 35 cm

Description: A mountain is sketched in the central background with the word “Sand” inscribed on it. Below the mountain is a small boat house which is surrounded by row boats in the foreground. All of the objects in the work are annotated with colour notes. Inscribed at the bottom left “Boat House July 16th 1930 B.”

Subject: landscape; boat house; boats; mountain

Credit: Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.27

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Bow Falls, Banff

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactshm.04.07

Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Date: c. 1941

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: ShM.04.07

1 image

Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Title: Bow Falls, Banff

Date: c. 1941

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 9.7 x 12.9 cm

Subject: landscape; mountain; waterfall

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1982

Catalogue Number: ShM.04.07

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

The Campbell's are Coming Hurrah' Hurrah'

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.461

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1939 – 1945

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.461

Description: A pencil drawing of a scene where a truck drives to the viewer’s left, while a plane/stork with parcel above. Animals chase the truck. On the right side there is a cabin labeled WUTHURING HEIGHTS, but crossed out[right side] -7Cbinchr... [left edge]The Campbell's are Coming Hurrah' Hurrah' [brc][bl…

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: The Campbell's are Coming Hurrah' Hurrah'

Date: 1939 – 1945

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 21.3 x 27.7 cm

Description: A pencil drawing of a scene where a truck drives to the viewer’s left, while a plane/stork with parcel above. Animals chase the truck. On the right side there is a cabin labeled WUTHURING HEIGHTS, but crossed out[right side] -7Cbinchr... [left edge]The Campbell's are Coming Hurrah' Hurrah' [brc][blc in cursive] Peter Whyte

Subject: RAF; plane; stork; cabin; Campbells; Wuthuring Heights

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.461

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Canadian Highlanders Are With You

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.757

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1939 – 1945

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.757

Description: Two images of what appears to be sketches for propaganda posters for World War II. The top image is a Canadian Highlander standing on a hill in a poised stance holding a lee enfield. In the background there is a mountain range, and below his feet is says “CANADIAN HIGHLANDERS ARE WITH YOU.” In the …

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Canadian Highlanders Are With You

Date: 1939 – 1945

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25.3 x 16.2 cm

Description: Two images of what appears to be sketches for propaganda posters for World War II. The top image is a Canadian Highlander standing on a hill in a poised stance holding a lee enfield. In the background there is a mountain range, and below his feet is says “CANADIAN HIGHLANDERS ARE WITH YOU.” In the second image it is the Highlander again looking out to the mountain range with his back to the viewer.

Subject: World War II; Highlander; gun; lee enfield; mountains; reserves; army; propaganda

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.757

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Catharine and Peter Season’s Greetings

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.939

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.939

Description: Christmas card drawing. A group of animals are painting canvases that are resting on easels. They are facing the viewer suggesting they could be painting you. Below the drawing it says “CATHARINE AND PETER SEASON’S GREETINGS” and in the TRC “164”

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Catharine and Peter Season’s Greetings

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 17.7 x 25.9 cm

Description: Christmas card drawing. A group of animals are painting canvases that are resting on easels. They are facing the viewer suggesting they could be painting you. Below the drawing it says “CATHARINE AND PETER SEASON’S GREETINGS” and in the TRC “164”

Subject: animal; moose; bird; squirrel; mouse; deer; bear; rabbit; wolf; easel; canvas; paint; painting; brush; palette; Christmas card

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.939

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

The Charge at Hill 70 Heavy Artillery in Action

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.674

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1959

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.674

Description: loose pencil drawing of heavy artillery with figures around it. coming out of the top of artillery are stars and the words “BANG POP”

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: The Charge at Hill 70 Heavy Artillery in Action

Date: 1959

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.0 x 13.2 cm

Description: loose pencil drawing of heavy artillery with figures around it. coming out of the top of artillery are stars and the words “BANG POP”

Subject: artillery; war; army

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.674

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Covered Bridge

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacthba.04.02

Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Date: 1938

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: HbA.04.02

1 image

Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Title: Covered Bridge

Date: 1938

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 12.3 x 17.4 cm

Subject: landscape, hills; animal, oxen; figure, male; winter; Christmas

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

Catalogue Number: HbA.04.02

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Cowboy June 1956

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.452

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.452

Description: A graphite drawing of men in cowboy hats kneeling on ground and rough architectural structure in background. Men appear to be working on something on the ground

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cowboy June 1956

Date: 1956

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 24.5 x 15.0 cm

Description: A graphite drawing of men in cowboy hats kneeling on ground and rough architectural structure in background. Men appear to be working on something on the ground

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.452

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Cowboy June 1956

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.453

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.453

Description: Graphite drawing of three men dressed in western wear kneeling. They appear to be drawing with paper on the ground.

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cowboy June 1956

Date: 1956

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25.5 x 16.1 cm

Description: Graphite drawing of three men dressed in western wear kneeling. They appear to be drawing with paper on the ground.

Subject: cowboy; drawing

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.453

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

The Diving Board

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactphw.04.27

Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.27

1 image

Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: The Diving Board

Date: 1931

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 22.0 x 14.2 cm

Subject: figure; child; girl; activity; swimming

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.27

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Elizabeth Von Rummel

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactedp.04.01

Artist: Percival James Edgar (1888 – 1946, American)

Date: 1939

Medium: reproduction on drawing

Catalogue Number: EdP.04.01

Description: Baroness Elizabeth von Rummel Waldau - Marvel Lake Lookout - 1939 - July signed P. J. Edgar. Portrait of a woman, Elizabeth Rummel, she has a kerchief tied around her head, a cigaret in her mouth, facing to the left, mountains in the background.

1 image

Artist: Percival James Edgar (1888 – 1946, American)

Title: Elizabeth Von Rummel

Date: 1939

Medium: reproduction on drawing

Dimensions: 30.1 x 20.1 cm

Description: Baroness Elizabeth von Rummel Waldau - Marvel Lake Lookout - 1939 - July signed P. J. Edgar. Portrait of a woman, Elizabeth Rummel, she has a kerchief tied around her head, a cigaret in her mouth, facing to the left, mountains in the background.

Subject: portrait; female; Elizabeth Rummel

Credit: Gift of Sydney Vallance, 1970

Catalogue Number: EdP.04.01

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Fall, Assiniboine River

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactphw.04.22

Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.22

1 image

Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Fall, Assiniboine River

Date: 1931

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 17.4 x 25.5 cm

Subject: landscape; river

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.22

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Farm Scene

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacthlr.03.02

Artist: R. L. Hunter

Date: 1950

Medium: graphite; crayon; felt marker on paper

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.02

Description: Farm scene, two horses, one brown one white are hitched to a wagon, the white horse is tied to a hitching post. A buggy is standing in right foreground. A log house with a green roof, smoke coming out of the chimney, is behind the buggy. A woman is standing in front of the door, a woman carrying a …

Artist: R. L. Hunter

Title: Farm Scene

Date: 1950

Medium: graphite; crayon; felt marker on paper

Dimensions: 45 x 56 cm

Description: Farm scene, two horses, one brown one white are hitched to a wagon, the white horse is tied to a hitching post. A buggy is standing in right foreground. A log house with a green roof, smoke coming out of the chimney, is behind the buggy. A woman is standing in front of the door, a woman carrying a child, a man with a small child by hand are all walking towards the wagon. A post with barbed wire is at the very bottom, some orange flowers in the bottom left. Background is green, some implements and a road. Trees along the horizon, a pale blue sky with three clouds.

Subject: landscape, rural; animal, horse; figure, male, child

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

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.02

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Flight Woodcock

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactrpl.04.01

Artist: Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896 – 1969)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: engraving on paper

Catalogue Number: RpL.04.01

Description: Colour: black on white. Across the bottom and in the left corner are branches of a bush with berries. Behind is a distant lake and shores. A full round moon sits just above the horizon and is reflected in the lake. In the sky above are two birds flying to the right filling the upper left corner and…

Artist: Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896 – 1969)

Title: Flight Woodcock

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: engraving on paper

Dimensions: 22.6 x 30.2 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. Across the bottom and in the left corner are branches of a bush with berries. Behind is a distant lake and shores. A full round moon sits just above the horizon and is reflected in the lake. In the sky above are two birds flying to the right filling the upper left corner and center.