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Clouds

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.429

Description: A brown coloured mountain range is in the immediate foreground. The rest of the picture is of billowy clouds in a blue sky.

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

Title: Clouds

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.2 x 32.2 cm

Description: A brown coloured mountain range is in the immediate foreground. The rest of the picture is of billowy clouds in a blue sky.

Subject: skyscape; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.429

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Clouds and Mountain

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.336

Description: Two horizontal (shades of green) lines across bottom of sketch, blue mountains with green strokes, in centre of sketch, dark grey to light grey sky, one fluffy white cloud top centre, three patches of blue sky top.

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

Title: Clouds and Mountain

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.9 x 18.0 cm

Description: Two horizontal (shades of green) lines across bottom of sketch, blue mountains with green strokes, in centre of sketch, dark grey to light grey sky, one fluffy white cloud top centre, three patches of blue sky top.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.336

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Clouds and Mountains

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

Date: 1935 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.354

Description: Two little trees brc one third of the page, three little trees blc, dramatic rock juts from the right side of the painting, very weak pale brown (mountain) in the distance blc, upper half of the painting is filled with grey clouds and a little blue sky, the clouds are a darker shade on the bottom a…

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

Title: Clouds and Mountains

Date: 1935 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 23.0 x 28.0 cm

Description: Two little trees brc one third of the page, three little trees blc, dramatic rock juts from the right side of the painting, very weak pale brown (mountain) in the distance blc, upper half of the painting is filled with grey clouds and a little blue sky, the clouds are a darker shade on the bottom and lighter on the top.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.354

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Clouds and Peaks

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.337

Description: Blc tip of a mountain with three peaks, from centre peak the grey clouds begin and end trc, this mass of grey cloud is surrounded by smaller and lighter clouds and blue sky.

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

Title: Clouds and Peaks

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.8 cm

Description: Blc tip of a mountain with three peaks, from centre peak the grey clouds begin and end trc, this mass of grey cloud is surrounded by smaller and lighter clouds and blue sky.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.337

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Clouds and Peaks

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.494

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Clouds and Peaks

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; skyscape

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.494

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Cloudscape

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

Date: 1930 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.314

Description: The peaks of Mount Temple are centred in the lower third of the painting, a grey-white cloud in brc, large sweeping cloud (white and grey tones) move from left to right over Temple, surrounded by blue sky and a smaller section of a grey cloud tlc.

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

Title: Cloudscape

Date: 1930 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: The peaks of Mount Temple are centred in the lower third of the painting, a grey-white cloud in brc, large sweeping cloud (white and grey tones) move from left to right over Temple, surrounded by blue sky and a smaller section of a grey cloud tlc.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.314

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Clump of Birches

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Artist: Edmee Moore (1908 – 1971, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: MoE.02.09

Description: Oil painting showing birch trees with mountains in the background. The painting is in a gilt wood frame.

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Artist: Edmee Moore (1908 – 1971, Canadian)

Title: Clump of Birches

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 19 x 24 cm

Description: Oil painting showing birch trees with mountains in the background. The painting is in a gilt wood frame.

Subject: landscape; mountain; forest

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: MoE.02.09

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Coming to Call

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Date: 1937

Medium: etching on paper

Catalogue Number: RuC.04.38

Description: Same as RuC.04.03. Colour: black on white. A bull moose stands, facing viewer’s right, in long grass by the edge of the water showing in the lower right corner. Behind him on viewer’s left are three leafless trees; in front are low bushes. In the upper left and right corners blurred and hazy conife…

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Title: Coming to Call

Date: 1937

Medium: etching on paper

Dimensions: 21.0 x 29.0 cm

Description: Same as RuC.04.03. Colour: black on white. A bull moose stands, facing viewer’s right, in long grass by the edge of the water showing in the lower right corner. Behind him on viewer’s left are three leafless trees; in front are low bushes. In the upper left and right corners blurred and hazy coniferous trees are visible. Signed brhc: C. Rungius in pencilled script.

Subject: animal, moose

Credit: Gift of Margaret Reid (Estate), 2008

Catalogue Number: RuC.04.38

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Crowfoot Peak, Bow Lake

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

Date: 1931 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.053

Description: Crowfoot Mountain above Bow Lake in foreground.

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

Title: Crowfoot Peak, Bow Lake

Date: 1931 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.8 x 28.0 cm

Description: Crowfoot Mountain above Bow Lake in foreground.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; Crowfoot Mountain; Bow Lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.053

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Deception Pass

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.007

Description: Colour: blue. The lower five sixths of the canvas is blue snow with a ski trail going up from the lower right corner up and across left to the center of the crest where three figures are trudging. The sky beyond is streaked with a long horizontal cloud. In the upper left corner in the distance are …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Deception Pass

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 63.5 x 70.6 cm

Description: Colour: blue. The lower five sixths of the canvas is blue snow with a ski trail going up from the lower right corner up and across left to the center of the crest where three figures are trudging. The sky beyond is streaked with a long horizontal cloud. In the upper left corner in the distance are snowy peaks.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; activity; skiing; figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.007

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Early Snow, Mount Assiniboine

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.009

Description: Colour: blue, white. The lower third is snow with a trail going up from the bottom center to the right then left to the center where on either side there are snow laden trees. Four evergreens and one larch on the left and two evergreens and four larch on the right. Beyond is a mountain peak on the …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Early Snow, Mount Assiniboine

Date: 1938 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 76.6 x 64.0 cm

Description: Colour: blue, white. The lower third is snow with a trail going up from the bottom center to the right then left to the center where on either side there are snow laden trees. Four evergreens and one larch on the left and two evergreens and four larch on the right. Beyond is a mountain peak on the left side - the saddle being right of center. There is a cloud resting on the saddle between the two rises. The sky is blue.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.009

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Elizabeth Parker Hut, Contentment Meadows, Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.078

Description: Colour: green, purple. In the foreground is green grass and two boulders in the lower right corner. Trees fill the middle ground and right of center are three cabins. The mountains rise up behind the trees. There's a patch of blue sky in the upper left corner and a little right of center at the top.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Elizabeth Parker Hut, Contentment Meadows, Lake O'Hara

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.4 cm

Description: Colour: green, purple. In the foreground is green grass and two boulders in the lower right corner. Trees fill the middle ground and right of center are three cabins. The mountains rise up behind the trees. There's a patch of blue sky in the upper left corner and a little right of center at the top.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; architecture; rural; camp

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.078

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The Family

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Date: 1937

Medium: etching on paper

Catalogue Number: RuC.04.06

Description: colour: black on white. One mother bear, one cub in front of her come down towards the right. Another cub is coming up from behind at the right. There are rocks in the lower left corner, trees at the right side and mountains in the background.

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Title: The Family

Date: 1937

Medium: etching on paper

Dimensions: 27.0 x 36.0 cm

Description: colour: black on white. One mother bear, one cub in front of her come down towards the right. Another cub is coming up from behind at the right. There are rocks in the lower left corner, trees at the right side and mountains in the background.

Subject: landscape; mountain; animal, bears, grizzly

Credit: Gift of James (Mrs.) Brewster, Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: RuC.04.06

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Field Workers, Hawaii

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.575

Description: A painting depicting people working in a brown field. Mountains in the background. One in a set of 7 paintings of Hawaii.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Field Workers, Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.6 cm

Description: A painting depicting people working in a brown field. Mountains in the background. One in a set of 7 paintings of Hawaii.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Pacific; Hawaii; figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.575

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Fields and Mountain, Hawaii

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.578

Description: Painting showing green fields in front of tall mountains. One in a set of 7 paintings of Hawaii.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Fields and Mountain, Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.6 cm

Description: Painting showing green fields in front of tall mountains. One in a set of 7 paintings of Hawaii.

Subject: landscape; mountain; fields; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.578

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Filling in the Bathtubs

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.029

Description: Colour: orange, green and blue on yellow and blue. Yellow slope covered with figures all carrying shovels. There are two paths coming down from the upper ridge at left. Both skiers at the end of the path are buried in snow. Two figures at the lower end of the right path are measuring the width of t…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Filling in the Bathtubs

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 100.1 x 74.6 cm

Description: Colour: orange, green and blue on yellow and blue. Yellow slope covered with figures all carrying shovels. There are two paths coming down from the upper ridge at left. Both skiers at the end of the path are buried in snow. Two figures at the lower end of the right path are measuring the width of the path. The sky is clear blue above where seven skiers stand waiting their turn.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; figure; group; activity; skiing; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.029

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Flight Woodcock

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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.