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Bernard Glacier, 1938

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Artist: Bradford Washburn (1910 – , American)

Date: 2006

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: WbB.18.05

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Artist: Bradford Washburn (1910 – , American)

Title: Bernard Glacier, 1938

Date: 2006

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 43.18 x 50.8 cm

Subject: landscape; glacier

Credit: Gift and purchased from Jon Goodman, Williamsburg, 2014

Catalogue Number: WbB.18.05

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Catharine and Peter Season’s Greetings

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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”

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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

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Engineer's House and South Wall (Lower Fort Garry)

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

Date: 1931

Medium: wood engraving on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.42

Description: Two houses in landscape or farm setting. Signed W.J. Phillips brc. Was mailed in white Christmas Greeting card from the Phillips and is glued at its top edge to inside of card. Xmas greeting in 1931 and again in 1951, this copy is from later date. This print is #179 in R. Boulet Catalogue.

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

Title: Engineer's House and South Wall (Lower Fort Garry)

Date: 1931

Medium: wood engraving on paper

Dimensions: 9.6 x 13.4 cm

Description: Two houses in landscape or farm setting. Signed W.J. Phillips brc. Was mailed in white Christmas Greeting card from the Phillips and is glued at its top edge to inside of card. Xmas greeting in 1931 and again in 1951, this copy is from later date. This print is #179 in R. Boulet Catalogue.

Subject: landscape; rural; Christmas

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

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.42

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Fishing Boats, Gimli Dock

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

Date: 1937

Medium: wood cut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.32

Description: Docked boat, man standing on dock, dog in foreground on shoreline;

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

Title: Fishing Boats, Gimli Dock

Date: 1937

Medium: wood cut on paper

Dimensions: 12.3 x 18.3 cm

Description: Docked boat, man standing on dock, dog in foreground on shoreline;

Subject: landscape; lake; figure, male; animal, dog; boat

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

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.32

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Golf Club House B.S.H. Banff

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

Date: c. 1938

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: ShM.04.04

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

Title: Golf Club House B.S.H. Banff

Date: c. 1938

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 11.0 x 14.0 cm

Subject: architecture; activity

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: ShM.04.04

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Honolulu 1934 [I]

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: watercolour; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.286

Description: Beach scene with many people. In the foreground, a man lays in his back with arms outstretched, knees and his bald head facing the viewer. Two dogs play in the middle ground, right side, one appears to be digging. Children run and people sunbathe with umbrellas in the background.paper support has b…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Honolulu 1934 [I]

Date: 1934

Medium: watercolour; ink on paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35.5 cm

Description: Beach scene with many people. In the foreground, a man lays in his back with arms outstretched, knees and his bald head facing the viewer. Two dogs play in the middle ground, right side, one appears to be digging. Children run and people sunbathe with umbrellas in the background.paper support has been glues to stiffer matting, possibly by previous cataloguer or preparator (pre-2016)

Subject: beach; sunbathing; leisure; dogs; Hawaii; Honolulu

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.286

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Honolulu 1934 [II]

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: ink; watercolour

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.287

Description: Watercolour and ink drawing of many people on a beach. A man in the right of foreground lies on his back suntanning. A larger woman in a pink bathing suit and blue cap, and blue floater in her right had. She wears blue sandals and gestures to someone farther down the beach. To the right a man in a…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Honolulu 1934 [II]

Date: 1934

Medium: ink; watercolour

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35.5 cm

Description: Watercolour and ink drawing of many people on a beach. A man in the right of foreground lies on his back suntanning. A larger woman in a pink bathing suit and blue cap, and blue floater in her right had. She wears blue sandals and gestures to someone farther down the beach. To the right a man in a hat is putting on his blue pants. Other people are sun tanning, sitting, or playing in the midground. In the background, people are in the water and there is a ship on the horizon.

Subject: beach; leisure; sunbathing; Hawaii; Honolulu

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.287

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Lily

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

Date: 1935 – 1940

Medium: engraving, wood on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.55

Description: A mostly black picture, with outline of lily pads floating in the water, one pad is blossoming.

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

Title: Lily

Date: 1935 – 1940

Medium: engraving, wood on paper

Dimensions: 7.5 x 13.4 cm

Description: A mostly black picture, with outline of lily pads floating in the water, one pad is blossoming.

Subject: botanical, water lilies

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

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.55

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Merry Christmas

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1939 – 1945

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.421

Description: Three men under an umbrella. Left man holds the umbrella, centre man holds a camera, and right man hold a FRAGILE suitcase labeled RCAF TOFINO

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Merry Christmas

Date: 1939 – 1945

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 25.2 x 17.5 cm

Description: Three men under an umbrella. Left man holds the umbrella, centre man holds a camera, and right man hold a FRAGILE suitcase labeled RCAF TOFINO

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.421

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A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.773

Description: Peter is taking a nap on three logs that have three squirrels on the top, three birds rest on his body. At his feet there is a stump with an axe in it, with three more birds watching Peter and beside the stump there is a bear. Peter has comic “z’s” coming up from his body where in a conversation bu…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 10.0 x 16.0 cm

Description: Peter is taking a nap on three logs that have three squirrels on the top, three birds rest on his body. At his feet there is a stump with an axe in it, with three more birds watching Peter and beside the stump there is a bear. Peter has comic “z’s” coming up from his body where in a conversation bubble he describes his dream of sitting at a table with Catharine around a meal. Written along the top edge “TO MOTHER ROBB FROM PETER” and along the bottom edge “A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR”

Subject: Christmas card; New year; logs; axe; stump; bear; birds; squirrels; man; sleeping; coupe; woman; mean; chair; table

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.773

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Mine Site No. 4

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Artist: Steven Dixon

Date: 2000

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: DiS.18.02

Description: This photogravure was taken at the mine in Nordegg. It has been printed on German Etching paper.

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Artist: Steven Dixon

Title: Mine Site No. 4

Date: 2000

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 19 3/4” x 23 3/4” cm

Description: This photogravure was taken at the mine in Nordegg. It has been printed on German Etching paper.

Subject: landscape; mines; pipes; industrial

Credit: Gift of Steven Dixon, Edmonton, 2014

Catalogue Number: DiS.18.02

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Mine Site No. 5

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Artist: Steven Dixon

Date: 2000

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: DiS.18.03

Description: This photogravure was taken at the mine in Nordegg. It has been printed on German Etching paper.

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Artist: Steven Dixon

Title: Mine Site No. 5

Date: 2000

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 19 3/4” x 23 3/4” cm

Description: This photogravure was taken at the mine in Nordegg. It has been printed on German Etching paper.

Subject: landscape; mines; industrial

Credit: Gift of Steven Dixon, Edmonton, 2014

Catalogue Number: DiS.18.03

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Mine Site No. 10

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Artist: Steven Dixon

Date: 2001

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: DiS.18.01

Description: This photogravure was taken at the Atlas Coal Mine in Drumheller. It has been printed on German Etching paper.

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Artist: Steven Dixon

Title: Mine Site No. 10

Date: 2001

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 19 3/4” x 23 3/4” cm

Description: This photogravure was taken at the Atlas Coal Mine in Drumheller. It has been printed on German Etching paper.

Subject: landscape; mines; still life; industrial

Credit: Gift of Steven Dixon, Edmonton, 2014

Catalogue Number: DiS.18.01

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Mistaya Valley, Peyto Lake

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

Date: 1937

Medium: engraving, wood on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.53

Description: The distinctive shape of Peyto Lake lies white in the foreground. The surrounding mountains are various shades of black and grey. The top right corner is white indicating sky.

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

Title: Mistaya Valley, Peyto Lake

Date: 1937

Medium: engraving, wood on paper

Dimensions: 12.1 x 17.7 cm

Description: The distinctive shape of Peyto Lake lies white in the foreground. The surrounding mountains are various shades of black and grey. The top right corner is white indicating sky.