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Bow Lake, Mount Hector

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955 – 1965

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.238

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake, Mount Hector

Date: 1955 – 1965

Medium: oil on canvas

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.238

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Bow Lake, St. Nicholas Peak

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.250

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake, St. Nicholas Peak

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.250

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Bow Lake Study #1

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Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Date: 2001 – 2001

Medium: oil on masonite board

Catalogue Number: GrL.01.20

Description: An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are green, blue, yellow and purple. The top section of the image represents the mountains, rendered with intersecting horizontal and vertical lines. The bottom third of the image represents the water, which is also intersected with ver…

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Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake Study #1

Date: 2001 – 2001

Medium: oil on masonite board

Dimensions: 40.5 x 40.5 cm

Description: An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are green, blue, yellow and purple. The top section of the image represents the mountains, rendered with intersecting horizontal and vertical lines. The bottom third of the image represents the water, which is also intersected with vertical lines on the right of the piece. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in red paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “45/P”.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Bow Lake

Credit: Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006

Catalogue Number: GrL.01.20

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Bow Lake Study #5

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Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Date: 2001 – 2001

Medium: oil on masonite board

Catalogue Number: GrL.01.18

Description: An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours are white, blue, purple and green. The top of the image is blue, with grey clouds. The mountains are represented in the centre of the image in tones of purple, white and blue. The bottom third of the image is a mixture of purple and green. …

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Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake Study #5

Date: 2001 – 2001

Medium: oil on masonite board

Dimensions: 35.6 x 45.7 cm

Description: An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours are white, blue, purple and green. The top of the image is blue, with grey clouds. The mountains are represented in the centre of the image in tones of purple, white and blue. The bottom third of the image is a mixture of purple and green. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in grey paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “45/T”.

Subject: landscape; mountain; forest; Bow Lake

Credit: Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006

Catalogue Number: GrL.01.18

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The Brewster Homestead (Banff)

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Artist: Ella May Walker (1892 – 1960, Canadian)

Date: 1951

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WaE.02.01

Description: A log house dominates the pictures, out buildings to the left of the house, wood fencing both sides; green/brown grasses foreground, evergreen trees behind house; mountains to left and right top of picture; some clouds in blue sky.

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Artist: Ella May Walker (1892 – 1960, Canadian)

Title: The Brewster Homestead (Banff)

Date: 1951

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 56.3 x 71.5 cm

Description: A log house dominates the pictures, out buildings to the left of the house, wood fencing both sides; green/brown grasses foreground, evergreen trees behind house; mountains to left and right top of picture; some clouds in blue sky.

Subject: architecture, rural; Mount Rundle; landscape, mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WaE.02.01

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Buffalo Hunt

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.06

Description: Two jumping bison, facing left are being chased by an man on a brown horse, he has a bow and arrow ready to shoot at the bison. The horizon runs across page just below centre line. The plain is brown, the sky is blue to the right and white/yellow the left half of picture.

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Title: Buffalo Hunt

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 23.0 x 30.0 cm

Description: Two jumping bison, facing left are being chased by an man on a brown horse, he has a bow and arrow ready to shoot at the bison. The horizon runs across page just below centre line. The plain is brown, the sky is blue to the right and white/yellow the left half of picture.

Subject: landscape, prairie; animal, buffalo, horse; figure, male; hunting; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.06

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Buffalo Jump

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.01

Description: Three people on horseback, one waving a bright red flag, are chasing some bison over a cliff. The cliff, right foreground is green, the valley below is light green with two brownish hills. The sky is blue with two white clouds.

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Title: Buffalo Jump

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 23 x 30.0 cm

Description: Three people on horseback, one waving a bright red flag, are chasing some bison over a cliff. The cliff, right foreground is green, the valley below is light green with two brownish hills. The sky is blue with two white clouds.

Subject: landscape; animal, buffalo, horse; figure, male; hunting; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.01

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Burial of Chief David Bearspaw

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.030

Description: Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Burial of Chief David Bearspaw

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 61.8 x 74.5 cm

Description: Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; figure; group; religious; funeral; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.030

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Cascade Mountain, Bear Street

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.362

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cascade Mountain, Bear Street

Date: 1955 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.1 x 34.6 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; town, Banff; buildings

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.362

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Cathedral Mountain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.364

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1955 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.3 x 25.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.364

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Cathedral Mountain, Yoho Valley

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.220

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain, Yoho Valley

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.4 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.220

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[Christmas Card and Photograph Album]

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Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album containing some photographs of various Alpine Club of Canada, American Alpine Club, Sky-Line Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, and personal trips. Photographs primarily depict mountain views, buildings, lakes, and people, some of whom are identified. The bulk…

Date Range: 1949-1958

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / b / PD - 12

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Photograph print; Postcard

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Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M67 / S36 / V225

Series: II.C. Activities / photography

Sous-Fonds: V225

Sub-Series: ii.b. Photographic material / photograph album

Accession Number: 5142

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / b / PD - 12

GMD: Album; Photograph print; Postcard

Date Range: 1949-1958

Physical Description: 1 album (173 prints : b&w and col. ; 25 x 22.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album containing some photographs of various Alpine Club of Canada, American Alpine Club, Sky-Line Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, and personal trips. Photographs primarily depict mountain views, buildings, lakes, and people, some of whom are identified. The bulk of the album is dedicated to Christmas cards sent to Lillian Gest by various people from 1949-1958. Inserts pertain to two photographs of a group of people sitting on the front porch of a cabin in Lake O'Hara. Ernest Feuz is seated far right.

Name Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Gest, Lillian; Feuz, Ernest; Whyte, Peter; Whyte, Catharine

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Activities; Buildings; Camps; Christmas; Climbing; Correspondence; Exploration; Family and personal life; First Nations; Glaciers; Huts; Horses; Horse packing; Indigenous Peoples; Lake O'Hara region; Mountains; Mountaineering; Mountain Goat; Postcards; Portrait; Scenery; Travel

Geographic Access: Jasper National Park; Banff National Park; Yoho National Park; Mount Assiniboine; British Columbia; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Conservation: Rehoused with acid-free paper and flat string - flat string tied around book to hold pages together.

Creator: Gest, Lillian

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Court of the Patriarchs

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of the Court of the Patriarchs clifs in Zion National Park, Utah

Date Range: [ca. 1929-1972]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 76

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 15 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Collected Photographs

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 76

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1929-1972]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print (front and back) ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of the Court of the Patriarchs clifs in Zion National Park, Utah

Subject Access: Mountains

Geographic Access: Utah

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.352

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Crowfoot Glacier

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.2 cm

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.352

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Dawn on the Ten Peaks, Moraine Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.328

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Dawn on the Ten Peaks, Moraine Lake

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.3 x 30.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.328

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Eagle Feeding Young

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: UnK.02.10

Description: A brownish eagle with yellow beak and feet is in the center of the picture, he is feeding a young eagle. The foreground is dark brownish hills, the sky is blue with white clouds.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Eagle Feeding Young

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 45.7 x 65.5 cm

Description: A brownish eagle with yellow beak and feet is in the center of the picture, he is feeding a young eagle. The foreground is dark brownish hills, the sky is blue with white clouds.