topic:" glacier" found 58 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.520

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.520

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Bow Lake

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

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.087

Description: Bow Lake with Crowfoot Glacier beyond.

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

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: Bow Lake with Crowfoot Glacier beyond.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Bow Lake; Crowfoot Glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.087

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Columbia Icefield

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.102

Description: Colour: brown, white, yellow, green. The foreground is green and yellow grass with one bare tree left of center. The middleground is brown slopes. A rocky peak reaches up the left side. The upper half is a snow covered slope with a rocky point sticking out a few places.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Columbia Icefield

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: brown, white, yellow, green. The foreground is green and yellow grass with one bare tree left of center. The middleground is brown slopes. A rocky peak reaches up the left side. The upper half is a snow covered slope with a rocky point sticking out a few places.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.102

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Columbia Icefield, Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.158

Description: A large gnarled, dead grey and brown tree with long brances is centre leaning left. Fall vegetation, rust-coloured, is in the immediate foreground, evergeens to the right. The icefield dominates the painting spilling to moraine lower and right, grey-blue flanks to each side and a cloudy white sky.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Columbia Icefield, Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1940 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.8 x 35.5 cm

Description: A large gnarled, dead grey and brown tree with long brances is centre leaning left. Fall vegetation, rust-coloured, is in the immediate foreground, evergeens to the right. The icefield dominates the painting spilling to moraine lower and right, grey-blue flanks to each side and a cloudy white sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; icefield, Columbia; glacier, Athabasca

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.158

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

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CPR Advertising Posters and Glacier House Blueprints

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 3 printed posters and 2 pages with blueprints/illustrations. Content pertains to colour advertisements for the Canadian Pacific Railroad (one promoting a new route to Thunder Bay via Winnipeg on the CPR, one advertising 'The Red Letter Day' in 1986 as the CPR opened up a direct lin…

Date Range: [ca. 1900 to ca. 1925]; 1926; [ca. 1940 to ca. 1970]; [ca. 1980 to ca. 1990]; 1986

Reference Code: V500 / II / C / 6 / PA - 9 to 13 O.S.

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Blueprint; Poster

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Sous-Fonds: V500

Sub-Series: V500 / II / C / 6 : Promotional Items, Awards and Correspondence

Accession Number: 7784

Reference Code: V500 / II / C / 6 / PA - 9 to 13 O.S.

GMD: Textual record; Blueprint; Poster

Responsibility: Nichols Morant

Date Range: [ca. 1900 to ca. 1925]; 1926; [ca. 1940 to ca. 1970]; [ca. 1980 to ca. 1990]; 1986

Physical Description: 6 Prints: posters and blueprints/illustrations; colour and b&w

History / Biographical: The Glacier House was originally built in 1886 to remove the burden of heavy dining cars by acting as one of multiple attractive pit stops for CPR passengers to take their meals. The building was expanded multiple times over the following 3 decades to accommodate a growing demand for overnight accommodation and increased railway traffic. Glacier House became less marketable by the 20's as dining service improved onboard trains, and the building closed in 1925. Plans were made for new extensions in 1926, but these were never realized.

Scope & Content: File consists of 3 printed posters and 2 pages with blueprints/illustrations. Content pertains to colour advertisements for the Canadian Pacific Railroad (one promoting a new route to Thunder Bay via Winnipeg on the CPR, one advertising 'The Red Letter Day' in 1986 as the CPR opened up a direct line from the Atlantic to Pacific coasts, and one reprint of a poster, date unknown, which originally promoted the CPR in the early 20th century). Also consists of a blueprint design for a proposed extension to the original Glacier House building in the Selkirks (dated 1926) and one print copy of a painted illustration depicting another proposed building design for the Glacier House, date unknown. The blueprint and illustration are possibly more recent copies of older items, and therefore a later date range of [ca. 1940 to ca. 1970] has been added to this file description.

Storage Range: In oversize storage as V500 / II / C / 6 / PA - 9 O.S. to V500 / II / C / 6 / PA - 13 O.S.

Subject Access: Travel; tourism; Hotels; Canadian Pacific Railway; Glacier House

Geographic Access: Canada; Canadian Rocky Mountains; British Columbia; Selkirks

Access Restrictions: Items in this file are not to be accessed or distributed without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.

Reproduction Restrictions: Items in this file are not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.

Language: English

Conservation: Items in this file must be stored in mylar to prevent further surface damage while in storage.

Creator: Nicholas Morant

Biographical Source Notes: https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/bc/rogers/decouvrir-discover/natcul6.aspx http://www.geog.uvic.ca/dept2/faculty/smithd/477/2010/2010_05_paper.pdf http://doug56.net/CPRMS1887/glacier-house.html

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Crest

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Date: prior to 1960

Material: fibre

Catalogue Number: 105.02.1035

Description: Glacier National Park, yellow, "Glacier National Park" in white lettering on yellow outside border, portrait of man in full head dress, blue, yellow, white and red feathers on light blue background in the centre.

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Title: Crest

Date: prior to 1960

Material: fibre

Description: Glacier National Park, yellow, "Glacier National Park" in white lettering on yellow outside border, portrait of man in full head dress, blue, yellow, white and red feathers on light blue background in the centre.