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Old Saints, Church Street

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

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…

Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

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.

Subject: urban; building; church; figure; people

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.26

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Moraine Lake

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

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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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

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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Girl, School Portrait

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.042

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Girl, School Portrait

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 53.5 x 43.5 cm

Subject: portrait; female

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.042

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Student Portrait, Woman

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.047

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Student Portrait, Woman

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 53.5 x 43.5 cm

Subject: portrait; female

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.047

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Molar Pass

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

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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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

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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Untitled

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

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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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

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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Park Range

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.539

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Park Range

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.2 x 27.7 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.539

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Castleguard Meadows

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.594

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Castleguard Meadows

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 27.8 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; camp; tent; figure; male

Credit: Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.594

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Teepee

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.071

Description: Oil painting of a beige and brown tepee and tall dark green pine tree with more smaller same-coloured trees in the background. Vague shapes behind those could either be mountains or clouds done in shades of blue and seafoam green. Signed “Peter Whyte -29” in bottom right corner.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Teepee

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 14.3 x 13.2 cm

Description: Oil painting of a beige and brown tepee and tall dark green pine tree with more smaller same-coloured trees in the background. Vague shapes behind those could either be mountains or clouds done in shades of blue and seafoam green. Signed “Peter Whyte -29” in bottom right corner.

Subject: teepee; landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; forest; camp

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.071

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: ink; watercolour; on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.235

Description: Drawing of two men standing beside a teepee, one smoking a pipe, as two figures on horses approach. “Greetings” written in black ink below image. Coloured in with watercolour. Left figure wears yellow, green and red striped coat (Hudson’s Bay blanket?), brimmed hat with red feather, has a yellow …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1929

Medium: ink; watercolour; on paper

Dimensions: 15.3 x 9.3 cm

Description: Drawing of two men standing beside a teepee, one smoking a pipe, as two figures on horses approach. “Greetings” written in black ink below image. Coloured in with watercolour. Left figure wears yellow, green and red striped coat (Hudson’s Bay blanket?), brimmed hat with red feather, has a yellow face(?). Figure at right wears green brimmed hat and gray waistcoat and pants, hands are yellow and face is black.

Subject: horse; teepee; card

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.235

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

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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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

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.