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Athabasca Valley and River, B.C.

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Artist: William Hutchinson (1874 – 1918, Canadian)

Date: 1914

Medium: oil on paperboard

Catalogue Number: HuW.02.03

Description: Mountain range dominates top half of the picture, small glacier on one mountain. Foreground is a dark blue river with white currents. Forest at centre right and centre left. Yellow tinged river valley.

Artist: William Hutchinson (1874 – 1918, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Valley and River, B.C.

Date: 1914

Medium: oil on paperboard

Dimensions: 90.6 x 103.5 cm

Description: Mountain range dominates top half of the picture, small glacier on one mountain. Foreground is a dark blue river with white currents. Forest at centre right and centre left. Yellow tinged river valley.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; river; valley; Athabasca

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Hutchinson, Winnipeg, 1994

Catalogue Number: HuW.02.03

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Athabaska Glacier

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Artist: Florence M Mortimer (1879 – 1959, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: MoF.02.01

Description: Colour: green, brown, purple, yellow. A large tree grows up the left side. The branches hang down from the upper edge. Behind, looking down over a forest is a body of water and mountains. Sky is yellow.

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Artist: Florence M Mortimer (1879 – 1959, Canadian)

Title: Athabaska Glacier

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 84.2 x 74.3 cm

Description: Colour: green, brown, purple, yellow. A large tree grows up the left side. The branches hang down from the upper edge. Behind, looking down over a forest is a body of water and mountains. Sky is yellow.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of eisler, Edmonton, 1972

Catalogue Number: MoF.02.01

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Autumn, Sawback Range

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

Date: 1935 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.227

Description: A row of yellow and lime green leaved trees create a line of colour behind an open field. The Sawbacks are located behind the treeline. The vein-like sculptural rock forms, rise high above the field. A cobalt blue sky creates a solid colour behind the mountains.

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

Title: Autumn, Sawback Range

Date: 1935 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: A row of yellow and lime green leaved trees create a line of colour behind an open field. The Sawbacks are located behind the treeline. The vein-like sculptural rock forms, rise high above the field. A cobalt blue sky creates a solid colour behind the mountains.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.227

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Autumn, Vermilion Lakes

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

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.258

Description: The foreground contains a bank of grass (coloured tan, ochre, green and brick-red), and a row of eleven tall trees with yellow foliage. On the left are three small black and green pine trees, and two are the right. The middleground contains stretches of bright blue water, and areas of ochre and gre…

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

Title: Autumn, Vermilion Lakes

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: The foreground contains a bank of grass (coloured tan, ochre, green and brick-red), and a row of eleven tall trees with yellow foliage. On the left are three small black and green pine trees, and two are the right. The middleground contains stretches of bright blue water, and areas of ochre and green grass. Black is used to outline the base of the separate areas. Two blue mountains are hidden by the foreground trees. Their lower slopes are green, and a thin line of yellow forest is found at their base. The sky is light blue.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.258

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Baker Creek

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.01

Description: General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. …

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Baker Creek

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 90.2 x 100.2 cm

Description: General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. Clear sky and a distant hill in the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; winter; Baker Creek

Credit: Gift of Evelyn Browne, Durham, USA, 1968

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.01

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Bali

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

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas on board

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.146

Description: Valley floor and mountains in Bali.

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

Title: Bali

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas on board

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Valley floor and mountains in Bali.

Subject: landscape; Bali

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.146

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Balinese Hills

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

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.156

Description: Hills in Bali seen through palm trees in foreground.

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

Title: Balinese Hills

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Hills in Bali seen through palm trees in foreground.

Subject: landscape; Bali

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.156

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Banff

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.156

Description: Dark evergreens in right foreground, ochre and yellow meadow to the left and directly above trees, town of Banff is in middle far right. Snow-covered Mount Rundle upper right. The treeline cuts through the centre of the painting, grey brown flank of Tunnel Mountain to the left.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Banff

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.2 cm

Description: Dark evergreens in right foreground, ochre and yellow meadow to the left and directly above trees, town of Banff is in middle far right. Snow-covered Mount Rundle upper right. The treeline cuts through the centre of the painting, grey brown flank of Tunnel Mountain to the left.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; town, Banff

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.156

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Banff 1962

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: GyH.02.01

Description: General colour: greens, pink, blue, mauve and purple. Mount Rundle in broad impressionistic strokes. “GLYDE 62” aigned in black in the brhc.

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Banff 1962

Date: 1962

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 26.1 x 33.6 cm

Description: General colour: greens, pink, blue, mauve and purple. Mount Rundle in broad impressionistic strokes. “GLYDE 62” aigned in black in the brhc.

Subject: landscape; Mount Rundle; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of eisler, Edmonton, 1972

Catalogue Number: GyH.02.01

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Banff from the Green Spot

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.379

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Banff from the Green Spot

Date: 1933 – 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.7 x 27.8 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; buildings

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.379

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

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Banff from Tunnel Mountain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.055

Description: Colour: blue, green, orange red. At the lower left corner is a green slope. Looking down on a town of bright buildings. Half way up are trees and a plain going off into the distance until mountain slopes take over the upper third.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Banff from Tunnel Mountain

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green, orange red. At the lower left corner is a green slope. Looking down on a town of bright buildings. Half way up are trees and a plain going off into the distance until mountain slopes take over the upper third.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.055

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

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Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928

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Artist: Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: JkR.02.03

Description: A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of …

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Artist: Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)

Title: Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.5 x 60.3 cm

Description: A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of an open space where the men in kilts are standing. Mount Rundle rises up behind the Hotel. A flagpole, trees and coloured tents are dispersed through the crowd in the middle of the painting.

Subject: architecture; Banff Springs Hotel; landscape; Canadian Rockies; activity; Highland Gathering

Credit: Gift of Joan Fitt, Calgary, 2001

Catalogue Number: JkR.02.03

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Banff Morning

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Artist: Lynn Malin

Date: 2012

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: MaY.02.01

Description: au verso “Wintered Banff Morning” oil/canvas

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Artist: Lynn Malin

Title: Banff Morning

Date: 2012

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 102.0 x 130.5 cm

Description: au verso “Wintered Banff Morning” oil/canvas

Subject: landscape; mountain; town, Banff; winter, morning

Credit: Gift of Lynn Malin, 2013

Catalogue Number: MaY.02.01

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Bankhead Foundations

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

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas on aluminum

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.223

Description: The great rock formation juts out of the lime coloured grass in the middle centre. Some large blue green evergreens create a natural barrier between the foreground and background. A smeared array of greens implies a deep forest beyond the rise in the foreground. The blue mountains stretch across th…

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

Title: Bankhead Foundations

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas on aluminum

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: The great rock formation juts out of the lime coloured grass in the middle centre. Some large blue green evergreens create a natural barrier between the foreground and background. A smeared array of greens implies a deep forest beyond the rise in the foreground. The blue mountains stretch across the horizon line. Pale blue sky with low lying cloud cover dominates the top 1/3 of the sketch.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; architecture

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.223

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Banyan Tree, Bali

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.023

Description: Colour: brown, green. Two banyon trees fill the outer edges of the picture and the foreground. Behind n the distance are a few figures and a building to the left. Bits of sky can be seen through the branches of the trees.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Banyan Tree, Bali

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35 x 27.5 cm

Description: Colour: brown, green. Two banyon trees fill the outer edges of the picture and the foreground. Behind n the distance are a few figures and a building to the left. Bits of sky can be seen through the branches of the trees.

Subject: landscape; architecture; figure; group; Pacific

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.023

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Barracks near Calgary

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1944

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.232

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Barracks near Calgary

Date: 1944

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; urban; architecture, barracks; military

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.232

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The Bear Street Alley, Banff

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1931 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.344

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: The Bear Street Alley, Banff

Date: 1931 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; town; building; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.344

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Bear Street Alley, Banff

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.054

Description: Colour: blue, green, brown, grey, mauve. The lower half is buildngs, rooftops and four telephone poles. The upper half is distant hills sloping up to blue and white mountains left of center near the top. There is cloudy sky across the top.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bear Street Alley, Banff

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35.2 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green, brown, grey, mauve. The lower half is buildngs, rooftops and four telephone poles. The upper half is distant hills sloping up to blue and white mountains left of center near the top. There is cloudy sky across the top.