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Aloha Tower, Hawaii

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.047

Description: Colour: blue, white, grey. At the right side is a dock. Two boats are tied up at the end of it. Across the picture on the other side of the lake are low buildings and to the left a buildng with a tower on the corner of it. Dark green slopes rise up to the right from behind. Mountains can be seen ju…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Aloha Tower, Hawaii

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, white, grey. At the right side is a dock. Two boats are tied up at the end of it. Across the picture on the other side of the lake are low buildings and to the left a buildng with a tower on the corner of it. Dark green slopes rise up to the right from behind. Mountains can be seen just behind them. The sky is layers of grey and fills the upper half.

Subject: landscape; architecture; urban; mountain; seascape; transportation; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.047

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

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Beach at Makapu'u Point, Hawaii

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1936

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.042

Description: Colour: yellow, grey, green. The lower half is sand and rocks. There is green water to the right and a large dark mountain side to the left. Above the horizon are two mountain islands and grey and green sky beyond.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Beach at Makapu'u Point, Hawaii

Date: 1936

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: yellow, grey, green. The lower half is sand and rocks. There is green water to the right and a large dark mountain side to the left. Above the horizon are two mountain islands and grey and green sky beyond.

Subject: seascape; mountain; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.042

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Building Sampans at Kewalo Basin, Hawaii

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.030

Description: Colour: brown, blue. A building with vague outlines of boats and figures in front of it, fills the left side of the picture. To the right is a large boat and hills and sky beyond.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Building Sampans at Kewalo Basin, Hawaii

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: brown, blue. A building with vague outlines of boats and figures in front of it, fills the left side of the picture. To the right is a large boat and hills and sky beyond.

Subject: landscape; Pacific; architecture; transportation; Hawaii

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.030

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Burning Cane Sugar, Hawaii

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.050

Description: Colour: green, grey blue. The lower third is a green field with a dark stream running zigzag through it from the lower right to the left. Vague buildings and trees can be seen on the horizon and at the right, a brown slope. The other two thirds is grey clouds with a patch of blue in the upper left …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Burning Cane Sugar, Hawaii

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: green, grey blue. The lower third is a green field with a dark stream running zigzag through it from the lower right to the left. Vague buildings and trees can be seen on the horizon and at the right, a brown slope. The other two thirds is grey clouds with a patch of blue in the upper left corner.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.050

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

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Chief Dan Wildman

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.075

Description: Dan Wildman is facing toward the left side of the image and takes up most of the right side of the image. The left half of the painting is a grey-green colour. Dan Wildman is wearing traditional Stoney clothing and head dress. He wears a bear tooth necklace and extensive beadwork is visible on h…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Chief Dan Wildman

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.0 x 62.3 cm

Description: Dan Wildman is facing toward the left side of the image and takes up most of the right side of the image. The left half of the painting is a grey-green colour. Dan Wildman is wearing traditional Stoney clothing and head dress. He wears a bear tooth necklace and extensive beadwork is visible on his shirt. His eyes appear as if they are slightly closed.

Subject: portrait; male; Stoney; Dan Wildman

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.075

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Chief David Bearspaw

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.120

Description: Colour: white, brown, red, orange. A man looks to the right, wearing a feather headress which runs off the picture at the upper left. While ermine streamers come down either side of his face. He wears a red neckerchief. There is blue, orange and red trim on the headress.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Chief David Bearspaw

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: white, brown, red, orange. A man looks to the right, wearing a feather headress which runs off the picture at the upper left. While ermine streamers come down either side of his face. He wears a red neckerchief. There is blue, orange and red trim on the headress.

Subject: portrait; male; Chief David Bearspaw

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.120

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Commodore in Dry Dock, Honolulu, Hawaii

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.041

Description: Colour: blue, brown. Central image is the frontal view of a large ship. Masts fill the upper center area. Across the middle is a dark beam of iron that joins up with another on the right side. Down the left side is one of the supports for the beam. Near the bottom surrounding the boat are ladder sh…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Commodore in Dry Dock, Honolulu, Hawaii

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, brown. Central image is the frontal view of a large ship. Masts fill the upper center area. Across the middle is a dark beam of iron that joins up with another on the right side. Down the left side is one of the supports for the beam. Near the bottom surrounding the boat are ladder shaped structures and to the right, a small building on a sort of ramp which goes from the side of the ship to the right. The sky is blue.

Subject: transportation; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.041

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Dole Pineapple Factory, Honolulu

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.031

Description: Colour: dark grey, green. The upper half is dark grey sky. In the center are a group of buildings way in the distance and water beyond. The foreground is green slopes - a few trees and a building to the left.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Dole Pineapple Factory, Honolulu

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: dark grey, green. The upper half is dark grey sky. In the center are a group of buildings way in the distance and water beyond. The foreground is green slopes - a few trees and a building to the left.

Subject: landscape; Pacific; architecture; Hawaii

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.031

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Dorothy Carleton

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Artist: Bev Tosh (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 2014

Medium: oil on plywood

Catalogue Number: TsB.02.01 a,b

Description: (a) portrait of Dorothy Carleton facing the viewer, her face in the top 1/3 and shoulders fade into the prominent wood grain, the bottom 2/3 is lightly painted white dress on wood grain. There is ar rainbow in top left corner to represent Dorothy’s statement of “living at the end of the rainbow”, t…

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Artist: Bev Tosh (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Dorothy Carleton

Date: 2014

Medium: oil on plywood

Dimensions: 121.92 x 31.43 cm

Description: (a) portrait of Dorothy Carleton facing the viewer, her face in the top 1/3 and shoulders fade into the prominent wood grain, the bottom 2/3 is lightly painted white dress on wood grain. There is ar rainbow in top left corner to represent Dorothy’s statement of “living at the end of the rainbow”, the street she lived on in Banff with her family according to painter Tosh.(b) 142 x 30 cm white silk panel with black typed inscription

Subject: war bride; Carleton; Tosh; portrait; bride; war

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Carleton, Banff, 2016

Catalogue Number: TsB.02.01 a,b

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Elizabeth Bearspaw

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Artist: Vera Louise Drysdale (1921 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1974

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DyV.02.01

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Artist: Vera Louise Drysdale (1921 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Elizabeth Bearspaw

Date: 1974

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.5 x 31.5 cm

Subject: portrait; female; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: DyV.02.01

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Ernest Grant, Chief of the Ravens

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Artist: Sir Aubrey Alexander Creed (1912 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on fibre

Catalogue Number: CrA.02.01

Description: General Colour: pale blue, rust and white on black velvet. A man's face, looking to the right is placed left of center. Behind him filling the right side of the picture looms a large black raven. At the bottom of the painting is a mask with the profile of a bird hinged to both sides of it. The left…

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Artist: Sir Aubrey Alexander Creed (1912 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Ernest Grant, Chief of the Ravens

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on fibre

Dimensions: 39.2 x 49.2 cm

Description: General Colour: pale blue, rust and white on black velvet. A man's face, looking to the right is placed left of center. Behind him filling the right side of the picture looms a large black raven. At the bottom of the painting is a mask with the profile of a bird hinged to both sides of it. The left and right sides of the frame represent the two sides of a bird.

Subject: portrait; male; Ernest Grant

Credit: Gift of Sir Aubrey Alexander Creed, Kitimat, 1971

Catalogue Number: CrA.02.01

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Eskimo Children II, Resolute Bay, N.W.T.

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.01

Description: The faces of three children look out from parka hoods. Behind in the distance are mountains.

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Eskimo Children II, Resolute Bay, N.W.T.

Date: 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.0 x 62.3 cm

Description: The faces of three children look out from parka hoods. Behind in the distance are mountains.

Subject: portrait; child; group; Inuit

Credit: Purchased from Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper, 1969

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.01

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

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Father Jean Louis Levern

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Date: 1945

Medium: painting on board

Catalogue Number: DgN.02.04

Description: An oil painting portrait of a man. An elderly man dominates the painting. The man has grey hair and is wearing a black high-necked coat with a large gold cross hanging on a black string around his neck. The background is a yellow-brown. The primary colours used are black, brown, yellow and red. The…

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Title: Father Jean Louis Levern

Date: 1945

Medium: painting on board

Dimensions: 59.0 x 41.7 cm

Description: An oil painting portrait of a man. An elderly man dominates the painting. The man has grey hair and is wearing a black high-necked coat with a large gold cross hanging on a black string around his neck. The background is a yellow-brown. The primary colours used are black, brown, yellow and red. The bottom of the canvas is unfinished/ left blank except for the artist signature in pencil in the blhc and in the brhc, “F. J. Levern, A.M.I - 1945 Cardston, Alberta”. Au verso, in black ink in the top lhc, “# 47”. And left of centre near the bottom is a piece of white paper with black text taped onto the board, see Narrative.

Subject: portrait; man; priest; Nicolas de Grandmaison

Credit: Gift of Nicolas Jr. de Grandmaison, Vancouver, 2011

Catalogue Number: DgN.02.04

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George McLean

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.024

Description: Colour: blue, brown, red. The head and shoulders on a man facing left. He has short hair and wears a hat. There is a red scarf around his neck. The background is blue.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: George McLean

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.5 x 51 cm

Description: Colour: blue, brown, red. The head and shoulders on a man facing left. He has short hair and wears a hat. There is a red scarf around his neck. The background is blue.

Subject: portrait; male; George McLean; Walking Buffalo; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.024

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Georgia Engelhard

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Artist: Edward Forn

Date: 1946

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: FoE.02.01

Description: A woman, Georgia Engelhard, stands in the centre of the picture, her legs cut off at centre thigh at bottom of picture, she is wearing blue pants and red checkered shirt, a blue/green hat in her right hand at her waist, she is looking straight forward, short blond hair, blue eyes and rosy cheeks, …

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Artist: Edward Forn

Title: Georgia Engelhard

Date: 1946

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 81.0 x 66.0 cm

Description: A woman, Georgia Engelhard, stands in the centre of the picture, her legs cut off at centre thigh at bottom of picture, she is wearing blue pants and red checkered shirt, a blue/green hat in her right hand at her waist, she is looking straight forward, short blond hair, blue eyes and rosy cheeks, the background top quarter is a cloudy sky, centre a range of mountains (Mount Assiniboine), a line of green and yellow trees, the bottom of the picture behind the lady is a lake

Subject: portrait; female; Georgia Engelhard

Credit: Gift of Eaton Cromwell, Bryn Mawr, USA, 1988

Catalogue Number: FoE.02.01

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Hanalai - Kauai

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.168

Description: Golden sandy beach in the immediate foreground becoming larger to the right and extending right to meet a dark coastline that reaches around past mid-centre of the painting. White, grey, blue and green ocean waves, froth and surf meet a dark blue, grey sky with long white storm clouds.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Hanalai - Kauai

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.5 cm

Description: Golden sandy beach in the immediate foreground becoming larger to the right and extending right to meet a dark coastline that reaches around past mid-centre of the painting. White, grey, blue and green ocean waves, froth and surf meet a dark blue, grey sky with long white storm clouds.

Subject: seascape; Pacific; Hawaii; ocean; beach

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.168

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Hanalei Bay, Hawaii

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.035

Description: Colour: teal blue, black, grey. Across the bottom and up the right side are rocks and cliffs. The water sits center becoming white and frothy near the rocks. The far shore is dark a single purple mountain can be seen behind right of center. Layers of grey clouds fill the upper third.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Hanalei Bay, Hawaii

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: teal blue, black, grey. Across the bottom and up the right side are rocks and cliffs. The water sits center becoming white and frothy near the rocks. The far shore is dark a single purple mountain can be seen behind right of center. Layers of grey clouds fill the upper third.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.035

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Hawaii

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.005

Description: Three trees dot the immediate foreground on the middle to right corner. Behind the trees is the ocean with it's colours of blues and greenish yellow tints of colour. The upper half of the canvas depicts a sky of royal and cobalt bluish tints meeting the horizon line.

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Three trees dot the immediate foreground on the middle to right corner. Behind the trees is the ocean with it's colours of blues and greenish yellow tints of colour. The upper half of the canvas depicts a sky of royal and cobalt bluish tints meeting the horizon line.