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Avalanche Slope
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- Date
- 1955 – 1970
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- DgO.02.02
- Description
- tlc and along top is a cloudy sky, below that is a mountain face. The slope runs tr to bl. The mountain has a long expanse of white from tr to bl interspersed with trees and shadows. Stylized tree forms all along bottom edge.
1 image
- Title
- Avalanche Slope
- Date
- 1955 – 1970
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 120.0 x 120.00 cm
- Description
- tlc and along top is a cloudy sky, below that is a mountain face. The slope runs tr to bl. The mountain has a long expanse of white from tr to bl interspersed with trees and shadows. Stylized tree forms all along bottom edge.
- Subject
- Canadian Rockies
- landscape
- winter
- Credit
- Gift of John P. Crabb, Winnipeg, 1995
- Catalogue Number
- DgO.02.02
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Banff Indian Days posters
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 14 colour and b&w oversized promotional posters and information boards for Banff Indian Days celebrations, promoted by Canadian Pacific. Posters largely feature identified and unidentified Indigenous people, notably Chief Spotted Eagle and Blind Eagle. Art medium includes oil pain…
- Date Range
- [ca. 1930-1950]
- 1936
- 1937
- 1949
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / D3 / 1 - 14
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Poster
- Drawing
- Published record
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- I.D.3. Personal and professional : Organizations
- Sous-Fonds
- I. Norman Luxton sous-fonds
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / D3 / 1 - 14
- Responsibility
- Published and artwork attributed to Ernie Kehr, W.L. Kihn, G.H.W. Ashley, Crag & Canyon Press, Palenske, Canadian Pacific and Multi Color Poster
- Date Range
- [ca. 1930-1950]
- 1936
- 1937
- 1949
- Physical Description
- 14 posters : colour and b&w ; 35 x 56 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 14 colour and b&w oversized promotional posters and information boards for Banff Indian Days celebrations, promoted by Canadian Pacific. Posters largely feature identified and unidentified Indigenous people, notably Chief Spotted Eagle and Blind Eagle. Art medium includes oil paint process mounted on cardboard made in Canada and distributed by Exhibits Branch Canadian Pacific, lithographic prints, and a mounted drawing attributed to Palenske. Some have annotations or stamps on the back.
- Notes
- Possibly unassociated shipping packing material addressed to Norman Luxton at the Trading Post from E.A. Kehr found in box - this has not been assigned a number. D3-10, a lithographic promotional material from 1936 has an identical design to LUX / II / F1 / 47, an Indian Days poster from 1928 Items LUX / I / D3 / 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 were originally associated with LUX / I / D3a / 6, which contains brochures and a flyer from Banff Indian Days LUX / I / D3 / 8, Palenske may have potentionally used photograph LUX / I / D3a / PA-26 as reference
- Material Details
- Some posters have foldable cardboard stand at back to place upright on surface, adhesives, and perhaps mounting additives.
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Advertising
- Community events
- Banff Indian Days
- Indigenous Peoples
- Tourism
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Alberta
- Banff National Park
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Buffalo Stampede
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- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.581
1 image
- Title
- Buffalo Stampede
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 9.6 x 21.7 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.581
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- Date
- 1950 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.566
- Description
- A sketch or unfinished painting of a ring of nine teepees. The teepee in the foreground, viewer’s right, is the largest, has inside firelight and shadows visible. The teepee, in the foreground, viewer’s left, is partially visible, with shadows and light from within visible. There are two figures in…
1 image
- Title
- Camp at Dusk
- Date
- 1950 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 27.0 x 71.0 cm
- Description
- A sketch or unfinished painting of a ring of nine teepees. The teepee in the foreground, viewer’s right, is the largest, has inside firelight and shadows visible. The teepee, in the foreground, viewer’s left, is partially visible, with shadows and light from within visible. There are two figures in the foreground, one in red, and one in blue and yellow and suggestions of others in the background. There is a low blue sky dusk descending overhead.
- Subject
- landscape
- camp
- teepee
- figure
- group
- Peter Whyte
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.566
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- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.580
1 image
- Title
- Camp Scene
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 9.4 x 21.4 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.580
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- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.582
1 image
- Title
- Camp Scene
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 9.7 x 21.4 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.582
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- Date
- 1951 – 1959
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- TuJ.03.01
- Description
- TuJ.03.01 (1951) roadside church, pen & ink, signed brc J.D. Turner Xmas card sent to the Whytes.
1 image
- Title
- Card Sketches
- Date
- 1951 – 1959
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 17.0 cm
- Description
- TuJ.03.01 (1951) roadside church, pen & ink, signed brc J.D. Turner Xmas card sent to the Whytes.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- TuJ.03.01
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- Date
- 1951 – 1959
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- TuJ.03.02
- Description
- TuJ.03.02 (1955) fence and foothills, gouache, initialled JDT brc Xmas card sent to the Whytes.
1 image
- Title
- Card Sketches
- Date
- 1951 – 1959
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 17.0 cm
- Description
- TuJ.03.02 (1955) fence and foothills, gouache, initialled JDT brc Xmas card sent to the Whytes.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- TuJ.03.02
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- Date
- 1951 – 1959
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- TuJ.03.03
- Description
- TuJ.03.03 (1959) Sunfield on fencepost (artist's residence west of Calgary); gouache. Xmas card sent to the Whytes.
1 image
- Title
- Card Sketches
- Date
- 1951 – 1959
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 17.0 cm
- Description
- TuJ.03.03 (1959) Sunfield on fencepost (artist's residence west of Calgary); gouache. Xmas card sent to the Whytes.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- TuJ.03.03
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Chiefs on Horseback
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- Date
- 1954 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.570
1 image
- Title
- Chiefs on Horseback
- Date
- 1954 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 20.2 x 50.3 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.570
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Circle of Tents
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.571
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.571
1 image
- Title
- Circle of Tents
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 19.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.571
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Corral, Bow Lake
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.452
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.452
1 image
- Title
- Corral, Bow Lake
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 35.2 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- camp
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.452
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Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake
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- Date
- 1954
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.424
1 image
- Title
- Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake
- Date
- 1954
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.1 x 30.2 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- lake
- glacier
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.424
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Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.514
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.514
1 image
- Title
- Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 35.4 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- lake
- glacier
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.514
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Down Before the Storm
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdgo.02.03
- Date
- 1955 – 1970
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- DgO.02.03
- Description
- The foreground of snow covers approximately one quarter of the picture, slopes from cr to bl. Two skiers, one in a yellow jacket, stand on the edge of the slope looking inwards. The rest of the picture is mostly grey clouds, covering the slopes in the background.
1 image
- Title
- Down Before the Storm
- Date
- 1955 – 1970
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 120.0 x 120.0 cm
- Description
- The foreground of snow covers approximately one quarter of the picture, slopes from cr to bl. Two skiers, one in a yellow jacket, stand on the edge of the slope looking inwards. The rest of the picture is mostly grey clouds, covering the slopes in the background.
- Credit
- Gift of John P. Crabb, Winnipeg, 1995
- Catalogue Number
- DgO.02.03
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- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.551
- Description
- Three decorated tepees stand in a row, blue mountains in the background, green grass in foreground. People in various colours of dress are sitting around the teepees.
1 image
- Title
- Indian Days
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.3 x 40.1 cm
- Description
- Three decorated tepees stand in a row, blue mountains in the background, green grass in foreground. People in various colours of dress are sitting around the teepees.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.551
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Indian Life 1952
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- Artist
- R. L. Hunter
- Date
- 1952
- Medium
- felt maker; ink; graphite crayon on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HlR.03.01
- Description
- Four figures sitting in the centre left foreground, group of people centre of drawing around a green clump of bush and multi-coloured banners flying on the air centre. Tents and teepees set around the central banner area.
1 image
- Artist
- R. L. Hunter
- Title
- Indian Life 1952
- Date
- 1952
- Medium
- felt maker; ink; graphite crayon on paper
- Dimensions
- 45.0 x 56.0 cm
- Description
- Four figures sitting in the centre left foreground, group of people centre of drawing around a green clump of bush and multi-coloured banners flying on the air centre. Tents and teepees set around the central banner area.
- Subject
- figure
- group
- ceremonial
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- HlR.03.01
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Japanese Sketchbook
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- Part Of
- Alpine Club of Canada fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a sketchbook containing Japanese writing, hand-drawn maps, and illustrations. Many of the illustrations are done in either watercolour paint or crayon.
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950-1960]
- Reference Code
- M200 / AC 093M / 2
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Scrapbook
- Painting
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Alpine Club of Canada fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M200 / S6 / V14
- Series
- I.A.1.b. Administration: general
- Sous-Fonds
- AC 093M
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- M200 / AC 093M / 2
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950-1960]
- Physical Description
- 0.5 cm of textual records (30 pages ; 37.5 x 28.5 cm)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a sketchbook containing Japanese writing, hand-drawn maps, and illustrations. Many of the illustrations are done in either watercolour paint or crayon.
- Name Access
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Subject Access
- Art
- Arts and crafts
- Backpacking
- Calligraphy
- Climbing
- Club
- Environment and Nature
- Painting
- Map
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Language
- Japanese
- Title Source
- Title based on material
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Kananaskis Lakes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.404
- Date
- 1950 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.404
- Description
- A blue lake is centre foreground surrounded by mountains. Evergreen trees in both right and left foreground. Cloudy sky.
1 image
- Title
- Kananaskis Lakes
- Date
- 1950 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 12.7 x 17.7 cm
- Description
- A blue lake is centre foreground surrounded by mountains. Evergreen trees in both right and left foreground. Cloudy sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- lake
- forest
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.404
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- Date
- 1950 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.565
1 image
- Title
- Making Camp
- Date
- 1950 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 28.5 x 69.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.565
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