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- Byron Harmon (Banff, Alberta) 6128
- Bruno Engler 4127
- Vaux family (Philadelphia USA) 2730
- Harmon, Byron 1979
- Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian) 1842
- Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian) 773
- Alpine Club of Canada 743
- Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British) 617
- Elliott Barnes 593
- Gadd, Ben 423
- Whyte, Catharine 370
- [Edmee Moore created the album] 349
- Date
- 1922
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ThM.05.02
- Description
- Colour: white, blue, pink, green. Looking from a glacier across a wide plain.Blowing snow obscures a distant snowy peak.
- Title
- Mount Barnard
- Date
- 1922
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 13.5 x 22.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: white, blue, pink, green. Looking from a glacier across a wide plain.Blowing snow obscures a distant snowy peak.
- Credit
- Gift of anonymous, 1971
- Catalogue Number
- ThM.05.02
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Freshfield Group
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactthm.05.01
- Date
- 1922
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ThM.05.01
- Description
- General colour: white, blue, purple. A distant mountain skyline with dotted routes marked on the right and at center. The name of each peak is marked at the end of a line which comes down perpendicular to the mountains, from the sky which is blue except for couds hanging just above the peaks.
- Title
- Freshfield Group
- Date
- 1922
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 37.5 x 24.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: white, blue, purple. A distant mountain skyline with dotted routes marked on the right and at center. The name of each peak is marked at the end of a line which comes down perpendicular to the mountains, from the sky which is blue except for couds hanging just above the peaks.
- Credit
- Gift of anonymous, 1971
- Catalogue Number
- ThM.05.01
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Cathedral Mountain
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlac.04.02
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.04.02
- Description
- General colour: green, grey. Foreground rocks and shrubs give way to trees and steep hills up either side. In the upper center is a mountain peak. Grey sky fills the upper right corner and across the top to near the left side.
- Title
- Cathedral Mountain
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 49.0 x 34.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: green, grey. Foreground rocks and shrubs give way to trees and steep hills up either side. In the upper center is a mountain peak. Grey sky fills the upper right corner and across the top to near the left side.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.04.02
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- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.11.02
- Description
- General colour: blue, yellow, orange. The lower third is a lake - left of center surrounded on all sides by hills of trees, evergreens and bright yellow and orange autumn leaves. From the trees rise slopes of snow to a rock pinnacle at center. The ridge moves off to the right where clouds meet snow…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 72.5 x 73.8 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue, yellow, orange. The lower third is a lake - left of center surrounded on all sides by hills of trees, evergreens and bright yellow and orange autumn leaves. From the trees rise slopes of snow to a rock pinnacle at center. The ridge moves off to the right where clouds meet snow. At the left side halfway up in the distance is another peak.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.11.02
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Old Saints, Church Street
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlac.05.26
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.26
- Description
- blc is a woman in a long red dress and white apron and green shawl. She is carrying something and going to meet a young girl on a sidewalk. Crossing the street lower mid-centre is a man in brown and young girl in pink. There are buildings to the left and right of street, trees at the end. Most of t…
- Title
- Old Saints, Church Street
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.5 x 35.6 cm
- Description
- blc is a woman in a long red dress and white apron and green shawl. She is carrying something and going to meet a young girl on a sidewalk. Crossing the street lower mid-centre is a man in brown and young girl in pink. There are buildings to the left and right of street, trees at the end. Most of the buildings appear to be homes but you can see a square castle or church spire poking out mid-centre. Cloudy sky. Street is in shadow from the right.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.26
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- Date
- 1927
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.09
- Description
- The mountains dominate the picture, of blue/purple tones. Left foreground is a small lake with reflections of the mountains, immediate right foreground has yellow/brown tones, treed shoreline. Little sky showing, cloudy. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition publica…
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- Title
- Moraine Lake
- Date
- 1927
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 42.2 x 57.0 cm
- Description
- The mountains dominate the picture, of blue/purple tones. Left foreground is a small lake with reflections of the mountains, immediate right foreground has yellow/brown tones, treed shoreline. Little sky showing, cloudy. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Centre catalogue numbers: 81 0334 A; 20687.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountains
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.09
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- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.11.01
- Description
- General colour: green, blue. Mountain face rises up behind a speeding train - the engine of which fills the cover two thirds of the picture. In the lower right corner a few trees and the other track can be seen. At the lower left side stands one telegraph pole.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 58.5 x 73.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: green, blue. Mountain face rises up behind a speeding train - the engine of which fills the cover two thirds of the picture. In the lower right corner a few trees and the other track can be seen. At the lower left side stands one telegraph pole.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- train
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.11.01
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- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.02.04
- Description
- Mountain scene with large prominent peak [Mt. Edith] at right centre. brown rocky slopes with sparse trees on either side, forming a large canyon. a river is in the foreground at the bottom of the canyon. blue sky with pink showing underneath sparsely applied paint. signed “A.C. Leighton bottom” ri…
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- Title
- Mount Edith
- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60.0 x 76.0 cm
- Description
- Mountain scene with large prominent peak [Mt. Edith] at right centre. brown rocky slopes with sparse trees on either side, forming a large canyon. a river is in the foreground at the bottom of the canyon. blue sky with pink showing underneath sparsely applied paint. signed “A.C. Leighton bottom” right corner. plaque on back of frame reads “Mount Edith, 1928 by A. C. Leighton” and a paper label adds “Banff” to the above.
- Subject
- mount edith
- mountains
- banff
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Fulton, Calgary, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.02.04
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.09
- Description
- General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of …
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- Title
- Molar Pass
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 34.2 x 41.8 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of blue at the upper left of center edge.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.09
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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- Date
- 1929
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.01
- Description
- General colour: blue. The lake at the bottom is banked on the right by trees and on the left in the distance by a mountain face rising out of the water. Glacier is center with five peaks visible: The central one being left of center at the very top. Sky is yellow grey and mostly in the upper right …
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- Title
- Moraine Lake
- Date
- 1929
- Dimensions
- 40.3 x 51.9 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue. The lake at the bottom is banked on the right by trees and on the left in the distance by a mountain face rising out of the water. Glacier is center with five peaks visible: The central one being left of center at the very top. Sky is yellow grey and mostly in the upper right corner.
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.01
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.02
- Description
- General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There …
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 55.0 x 43.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There is also a patch of blue in the upper right corner.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountains
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.02
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- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.17
- Description
- General colour: teal green lake, purple tan mountains, grey clouds. Lower right corner there is a group of scraggly trees on rock. The lake fills the lower third. Two bars of sand and grass come in from either side. The mountains sweep up to bluestery clouds which come down over the peeks.
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- Title
- Bow Lake
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 33.9 x 44.1 cm
- Description
- General colour: teal green lake, purple tan mountains, grey clouds. Lower right corner there is a group of scraggly trees on rock. The lake fills the lower third. Two bars of sand and grass come in from either side. The mountains sweep up to bluestery clouds which come down over the peeks.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.17
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Untitled [Sonia de Grandmaison]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdgn.03.13
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- drawing on paper
- Catalogue Number
- Dgn.03.13
- Description
- A charcoal drawing of a woman lying on a bed with bent knees and her head on a pillow. On viewer’s left the woman has her right arm raised with her hand on her cheek. The drawing is done on a piece of hotel stationery: stamped logo hotel left-hand corner with “COVERS AN ENTIRE BLOCK” printed undern…
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- Title
- Untitled [Sonia de Grandmaison]
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- drawing on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.7 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- A charcoal drawing of a woman lying on a bed with bent knees and her head on a pillow. On viewer’s left the woman has her right arm raised with her hand on her cheek. The drawing is done on a piece of hotel stationery: stamped logo hotel left-hand corner with “COVERS AN ENTIRE BLOCK” printed underneath, right-hand corner “ONE OF AMERICA’S EXCEPTIONAL HOTELS, DAVENPORT HOTEL, LOUIE M. DAVENPORT, PRESIDENT” underneath “SPOKANE, WASHINGTON”. Written in pen mid-to-right hand side under drawing “1931 Spokane, Wash. Sketch by Nicholas de Grandmaison on our honeymoon in Spokane Wash.”
- Subject
- portrait
- woman
- Sonia de Grandmaison
- Credit
- Gift of Nicolas Jr. de Grandmaison, Vancouver, 2018
- Catalogue Number
- Dgn.03.13
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Deception Pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlac.05.22
- Date
- 1934
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.22
- Description
- General colour: brown, blue. Lower two thirds is filled with the dry rock slopes of a mountain which peaks in the upper enter. Blue sky comes down from both upper corners. One large cloud sits upper center.
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- Title
- Deception Pass
- Date
- 1934
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.2 x 36.8 cm
- Description
- General colour: brown, blue. Lower two thirds is filled with the dry rock slopes of a mountain which peaks in the upper enter. Blue sky comes down from both upper corners. One large cloud sits upper center.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.22
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Indian Village Of Koksilah
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlac.03.04
- Date
- 1935
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.04
- Description
- General colour: brown ink on white. A pencil grid of three quarter inch squares has been laid over a birds eye view of an indian village. Left of center is a church. A road goes up and right from it. There are buildings here and there. Tree branches in the lower left corner and trees spaced across …
- Title
- Indian Village Of Koksilah
- Date
- 1935
- Dimensions
- 26.6 x 28.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: brown ink on white. A pencil grid of three quarter inch squares has been laid over a birds eye view of an indian village. Left of center is a church. A road goes up and right from it. There are buildings here and there. Tree branches in the lower left corner and trees spaced across the upper area.
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.04
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Goodsir Plateau
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlac.05.11
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.11
- Description
- General colour: grey, blue, beige, white. There is a lake in the lower left foreground; a cloudy sky in the upper right corner; a glacier rises from the lake left of center; the peaks run off the picture at the left but appear in the distance down towards the right of the picture.
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- Title
- Goodsir Plateau
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 38.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: grey, blue, beige, white. There is a lake in the lower left foreground; a cloudy sky in the upper right corner; a glacier rises from the lake left of center; the peaks run off the picture at the left but appear in the distance down towards the right of the picture.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.11
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- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.16
- Description
- General colour: blue, brown. Central image is a man standing in a cart drawn by two horses. Behind this are two elevators. To the left is a fence and in the background another elevator. To the right is a tower and a train steaming by to the right. The sky is blue with a few clouds.
- Title
- Tinder Den
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.0 x 38.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue, brown. Central image is a man standing in a cart drawn by two horses. Behind this are two elevators. To the left is a fence and in the background another elevator. To the right is a tower and a train steaming by to the right. The sky is blue with a few clouds.
- Subject
- landscape
- rural
- animal, horse
- figure, male
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.16
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Long Time Squirrel
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- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- print on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.04.02
- Description
- A print reproduction of a pastel drawing. The drawing is a portrait of an aboriginal man. The man’s black hair is tied into multiple braids and there are feathers at the top of his head. He is wearing many beaded/ braided necklaces. The background is brown and the artist signature and a copyright s…
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- Title
- Long Time Squirrel
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- print on paper
- Dimensions
- 47.0 x 34.5 cm
- Description
- A print reproduction of a pastel drawing. The drawing is a portrait of an aboriginal man. The man’s black hair is tied into multiple braids and there are feathers at the top of his head. He is wearing many beaded/ braided necklaces. The background is brown and the artist signature and a copyright symbol is about 6 cm up from the bottom on the left hand side. Under the image in the bottom left corner, written in pencil, “100/1000”. There is a write up that accompanies the print, see narrative.
- Subject
- aboriginal
- man
- Nicolas De Grandmaison
- Credit
- Gift of Nicolas Jr. de Grandmaison, Vancouver, 2011
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.04.02
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Long Time Squirrel
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- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- print on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.04.03
- Description
- A print reproduction of a pastel drawing in a folder. The drawing is a portrait of an aboriginal man. The man’s black hair is tied into multiple braids and there are feathers at the top of his head. He is wearing many beaded/ braided necklaces. The background is brown and the artist signature and a…
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- Title
- Long Time Squirrel
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- print on paper
- Dimensions
- 47.0 x 34.5 cm
- Description
- A print reproduction of a pastel drawing in a folder. The drawing is a portrait of an aboriginal man. The man’s black hair is tied into multiple braids and there are feathers at the top of his head. He is wearing many beaded/ braided necklaces. The background is brown and the artist signature and a copyright symbol is about 6 cm up from the bottom on the left hand side. Under the image in the bottom left corner, written in pencil, “99/1000”. Along the bottom left edge of the paper in black print, “© 1979 Bank of Montreal. “LONG TIME SQUIRREL, BLOOD”, Cardston, Alberta, 1938 by N. de Grandmaison”. There is a write up that accompanies the print, see Narrative.
- Subject
- portrait
- Indigenous
- man
- Nicolas de Grandmaison
- Credit
- Gift of Nicolas Jr. de Grandmaison, Vancouver, 2011
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.04.03
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- Date
- 1940
- Medium
- charcoal on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ThM.03.04
- Description
- A charcoal drawing from the chest up of an alpine ibex. The ibex is facing to his right, long horns curve gracefully back.
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- Title
- Alpine Ibex
- Date
- 1940
- Medium
- charcoal on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 20.5 cm
- Description
- A charcoal drawing from the chest up of an alpine ibex. The ibex is facing to his right, long horns curve gracefully back.
- Subject
- animal
- alpine ibex
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- ThM.03.04
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