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Around the World in One Month
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.746
- Date
- 1925 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.746
- Description
- A simple sketch of a man in a fancy vehicle wearing a mask driving off. There appears to be a sign erased to the left of the car. The hood ornament looks like a little man with giant hands. In the TRC it says “AROUND THE WORLD IN ONE MONTH,” on the vehicle is says “WHITE CAR,” and it is signed in t…
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- Title
- Around the World in One Month
- Date
- 1925 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 22.8 cm
- Description
- A simple sketch of a man in a fancy vehicle wearing a mask driving off. There appears to be a sign erased to the left of the car. The hood ornament looks like a little man with giant hands. In the TRC it says “AROUND THE WORLD IN ONE MONTH,” on the vehicle is says “WHITE CAR,” and it is signed in the BLC
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.746
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- Date
- 1917 – 1929
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.557
- Description
- Pencil drawing of a stump with an axe left in it in the foreground. A squirrel aits on the blunt edge of the axe blade and another sits on a branch in the trees of the background. AXE AND STUMP [tlc, with STUMP underlined]
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- Title
- Axe and Stump
- Date
- 1917 – 1929
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.1 x 22.5 cm
- Description
- Pencil drawing of a stump with an axe left in it in the foreground. A squirrel aits on the blunt edge of the axe blade and another sits on a branch in the trees of the background. AXE AND STUMP [tlc, with STUMP underlined]
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.557
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Best Wishes Peter
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.772
- Date
- 1951
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.772
- Description
- Christmas card sketch, resembling the final version of the 1951 card. Animals gather around Catharine and Peter’s vehicle waiting for Catharine to finish cooking. Peter sits on the roof reading. One of the bears is sitting by a stool with a fork in hand. Near the middle of the bottom edge of the pa…
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- Title
- Best Wishes Peter
- Date
- 1951
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Christmas card sketch, resembling the final version of the 1951 card. Animals gather around Catharine and Peter’s vehicle waiting for Catharine to finish cooking. Peter sits on the roof reading. One of the bears is sitting by a stool with a fork in hand. Near the middle of the bottom edge of the paper it says “BEST WISHES PETER”verso: rectangular box drawn that is blank, that could have been used for another sketch.
- Subject
- bears
- stool
- fork
- moose
- birds
- squirrel
- rabbit
- tree
- cooking
- pot
- woman
- man
- reading
- vehicle
- Christmas card
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.772
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Building and Tree
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.516
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on board
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.516
- Description
- Drawing of a building in the background, framed by trees in the foreground.
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- Title
- Building and Tree
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on board
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 38.0 cm
- Description
- Drawing of a building in the background, framed by trees in the foreground.
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.516
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- Date
- 1916 – 1927
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.084
- Description
- Full figure rough sketch of man sitting with right elbow on knee and chin on right fist.
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- Title
- Charlie
- Date
- 1916 – 1927
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 23 cm
- Description
- Full figure rough sketch of man sitting with right elbow on knee and chin on right fist.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.084
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Fallen Tree Stump and Mountain
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.145
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.145
- Description
- Foliage or tree stump centre foreground. Tree along right side, more trees extend into background, dominated by mountain on the horizon. More bare trees to the left of the drawing.
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- Title
- Fallen Tree Stump and Mountain
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20 x 15.5 cm
- Description
- Foliage or tree stump centre foreground. Tree along right side, more trees extend into background, dominated by mountain on the horizon. More bare trees to the left of the drawing.
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.145
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First Shack at Cave + Basin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.835
- Date
- 1910 – 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.835
- Description
- A simple log cabin that is shaped in a simple square is in the foreground. Just in front of the structure there is some logs on on the ground, off to the side is a wooden fence, and behind the building there is a tree without leaves (suggesting that the drawing is later in the year). In the backgro…
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- Title
- First Shack at Cave + Basin
- Date
- 1910 – 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.4 x 25.3 cm
- Description
- A simple log cabin that is shaped in a simple square is in the foreground. Just in front of the structure there is some logs on on the ground, off to the side is a wooden fence, and behind the building there is a tree without leaves (suggesting that the drawing is later in the year). In the background there is pine trees, and the Rocky Mountains. In the sky their is a couple clouds. On the door of the building says “HOTEL”, and on the bottom edge is says “FIRST SHACK AT CAVE + BASIN”. Peter signed the drawing in the BRC “PETE WHiTE”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 0
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.835
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- Date
- 1916 – 1928
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.083
- Description
- Full figure sketch of man standing in suit with hands in pants pockets.
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- Title
- Gordon
- Date
- 1916 – 1928
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 23 cm
- Description
- Full figure sketch of man standing in suit with hands in pants pockets.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.083
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House Amongst Trees
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.522
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- graphite on board
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.522
- Description
- A drawing of a view of a building through screening trees in the foreground. It appears to be in a rural environment.
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- Title
- House Amongst Trees
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- graphite on board
- Dimensions
- 27 x 30 cm
- Description
- A drawing of a view of a building through screening trees in the foreground. It appears to be in a rural environment.
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.522
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- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- graphite on board
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.245
- Description
- Line of houses in mid-foreground, one in centre of drawing has a fence infront of it, and a window, two chimneys. Four trees along left side, flat area in foreground at bottom.“One of Collings’ recurrent themes-- buildings viewed through a screen of branches.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” …
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- Title
- Houses
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- graphite on board
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 20.2 cm
- Description
- Line of houses in mid-foreground, one in centre of drawing has a fence infront of it, and a window, two chimneys. Four trees along left side, flat area in foreground at bottom.“One of Collings’ recurrent themes-- buildings viewed through a screen of branches.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heathblc.-Shorton (next word scribbled out). brc.-Farm (next three words scribbled out).
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.245
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- Date
- 1917 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.518
- Description
- A pencil drawing on paper of the profile of a bald, mustached man in a tuxedo. The title, JEFF is located in the centre of top edge.
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- Title
- Jeff
- Date
- 1917 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite
- Dimensions
- 22.5 x 15.1 cm
- Description
- A pencil drawing on paper of the profile of a bald, mustached man in a tuxedo. The title, JEFF is located in the centre of top edge.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.518
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- Date
- 1917 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.522
- Description
- A pencil drawing on paper of the profile of a bald, mustached man in a tuxedo. The title, JEFF is located in the brc .Verso: multiplication and division calculations
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- Title
- Jeff
- Date
- 1917 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.5 x 15.1 cm
- Description
- A pencil drawing on paper of the profile of a bald, mustached man in a tuxedo. The title, JEFF is located in the brc .Verso: multiplication and division calculations
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.522
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Kootenay Plains / Study #2
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgrl.03.14
- Date
- 2002 – 2002
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.03.14
- Description
- A pencil sketch of a landscape on paper with intact sketchbook binding holes at the top. Three mountain shapes dominate the top section of this image, with a suggestion of trees in the foreground. The artist’s signature is in the brhc. Au verso, written in pencil in the tlhc, “46/y-6”.
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- Title
- Kootenay Plains / Study #2
- Date
- 2002 – 2002
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 17.6 cm
- Description
- A pencil sketch of a landscape on paper with intact sketchbook binding holes at the top. Three mountain shapes dominate the top section of this image, with a suggestion of trees in the foreground. The artist’s signature is in the brhc. Au verso, written in pencil in the tlhc, “46/y-6”.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.03.14
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Kootenay Plains / Study #3
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgrl.03.09
- Date
- 2001 – 2001
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.03.09
- Description
- A pencil sketch of a landscape on paper with intact sketchbook binding holes at the top. Trees dominate the foreground, with a shaded mountain range in the background. The artist’s signature is in the brhc. Au verso, written in pencil in the tlhc, “45/I-7”.
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- Title
- Kootenay Plains / Study #3
- Date
- 2001 – 2001
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 17.6 cm
- Description
- A pencil sketch of a landscape on paper with intact sketchbook binding holes at the top. Trees dominate the foreground, with a shaded mountain range in the background. The artist’s signature is in the brhc. Au verso, written in pencil in the tlhc, “45/I-7”.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.03.09
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Lower Valleys Glacier Bed, Lake Louise
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.233
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.233
- Description
- Valley area centre with mountains on either side, rocks in foreground right, four trees on mountain side right, one large tree on same plane as other trees left, mountains from a V in distance, valley continues at the base of the V.“Sketching Lake Louise was de rigour for artists in Canada in the f…
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- Title
- Lower Valleys Glacier Bed, Lake Louise
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.8 x 25.7 cm
- Description
- Valley area centre with mountains on either side, rocks in foreground right, four trees on mountain side right, one large tree on same plane as other trees left, mountains from a V in distance, valley continues at the base of the V.“Sketching Lake Louise was de rigour for artists in Canada in the first decades of the twentieth century. Collings chose an unusual view looking down towards the lake through a narrow, sinuous valley. The resulting “starburst” composition is contained by uncompromisingly vertical trees on either side.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- Lake Louise
- trees
- valley
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.233
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A Merry Christmas to Mother Robb from Peter
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.707
- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.707
- Description
- Sketch of the Whyte’s home during winter with a loosely drawn version of Cascade mountain behind it. Various animals walking up to and from the house. Under BLC of the border it says “A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO MOTHER ROBB FROM PETER”, and in BRC the the suggested dimensions of “6 1/2 x 8”
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- Title
- A Merry Christmas to Mother Robb from Peter
- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.6 x 27.4 cm
- Description
- Sketch of the Whyte’s home during winter with a loosely drawn version of Cascade mountain behind it. Various animals walking up to and from the house. Under BLC of the border it says “A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO MOTHER ROBB FROM PETER”, and in BRC the the suggested dimensions of “6 1/2 x 8”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.707
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- Artist
- Gennadiy Ivanov
- Date
- ca. 2022 – 2022
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- IvG.03.04
- Description
- Landscape drawing of Mount Robson composed of a colour palette of varying of blues, purples, white and brown. The background has a blue sky, with clouds rendered in white and purple. The focal point is the large mountain decorated with white, purple and brown vertical lines. The middle ground us a …
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- Artist
- Gennadiy Ivanov
- Title
- Mount Robson
- Date
- ca. 2022 – 2022
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 49.0 x 35.0 cm
- Description
- Landscape drawing of Mount Robson composed of a colour palette of varying of blues, purples, white and brown. The background has a blue sky, with clouds rendered in white and purple. The focal point is the large mountain decorated with white, purple and brown vertical lines. The middle ground us a forest of green trees, and the foreground is a flat area of green grass.
- Credit
- Gift of Gennadiy Ivanov, Norwich, Norfolk , UK, 2023
- Catalogue Number
- IvG.03.04
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Mt. Sir Donald
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.283
- Date
- 1921
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.283
- Description
- Pencil drawing of a mountain capped with snow. The silhouette of trees act as a screen in the foreground. A hand drawn frame in pencil encircles the drawing.MT. SIR DONALD [centre bottom] CANADIAN ROCKIES [brc]appears to have an erased signature in bottom right corner, with “Pete...” Peter White 1…
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- Title
- Mt. Sir Donald
- Date
- 1921
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 29.5 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- Pencil drawing of a mountain capped with snow. The silhouette of trees act as a screen in the foreground. A hand drawn frame in pencil encircles the drawing.MT. SIR DONALD [centre bottom] CANADIAN ROCKIES [brc]appears to have an erased signature in bottom right corner, with “Pete...” Peter White 1921 [brc, above CANADIAN ROCKIES]
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.283
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Orest Dournovo
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdgn.03.12
- Date
- c. 1930
- Medium
- drawing on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.12
- Description
- A pastel drawing portrait of a man. The bust of an older man dominates the drawing. The man is bald and has blue eyes and a long beard that is greying at the bottom. The background is dark grey and brown, with lines visible from the loose drawing strokes. The artist signature is in the bottom rhc, …
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- Title
- Orest Dournovo
- Date
- c. 1930
- Medium
- drawing on paper
- Dimensions
- 47.0 x 36.5 cm
- Description
- A pastel drawing portrait of a man. The bust of an older man dominates the drawing. The man is bald and has blue eyes and a long beard that is greying at the bottom. The background is dark grey and brown, with lines visible from the loose drawing strokes. The artist signature is in the bottom rhc, written in black, “N de Grandmaison”. Au verso, there is an illegible purple ink stamp in the centre near the bottom. The stamp is a rectangle with print inside.
- Subject
- portrait
- man
- Nicolas de Grandmaison
- Credit
- Gift of Nicolas Jr. de Grandmaison, Vancouver, 2011
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.12
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- Date
- 1914 – 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.656
- Description
- Pencil drawing of an owl, perched on a stand, with rough trees and mountains in the background. Enclosed in a rectangle. Below rectangle is the word OWL, circled. Signed Pete W. in cursive in brc within the rectangle; Signed P.R. WHiTE in brc outside rectangle.
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- Title
- Owl
- Date
- 1914 – 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.0 x 21.8 cm
- Description
- Pencil drawing of an owl, perched on a stand, with rough trees and mountains in the background. Enclosed in a rectangle. Below rectangle is the word OWL, circled. Signed Pete W. in cursive in brc within the rectangle; Signed P.R. WHiTE in brc outside rectangle.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.656
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