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- Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian) 18
- Illingworth Holey Kerr (1905 – 1989, Canadian) 3
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- Clarence Ingwall Tillenius (1913 – 2012, Canadian) 2
- David Muskego 2
- Doug Klein 2
- Robert Muskego 2
- Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian) 2
- Susan Elkins 2
- (Sir) William Cornelius Van Horne (1843 – 1915, Canadian) 1
- Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British) 1
- Edward William Godwin (1933 – 2013, Canadian) 1
Lake Minnewanka and Mount Inglismaldie
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- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.02.01
- Description
- Colour: blue, green. The lower half is a lake with two people in a canoe right of center. A piece of land with evergreens comes out at the right side. The upper half is a mountain range. At the left side in the distance is another range. Above is clear blue sky.This painting was lent to the Winnipe…
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- Title
- Lake Minnewanka and Mount Inglismaldie
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 34.0 x 57.0 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, green. The lower half is a lake with two people in a canoe right of center. A piece of land with evergreens comes out at the right side. The upper half is a mountain range. At the left side in the distance is another range. Above is clear blue sky.This painting was lent to the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1975 to be included in the exhibition The Railway: A Patron of the Arts in Canada. The exhibition was circulated accross the country for two years.
- Credit
- Purchased from Red River Books, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.02.01
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- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- VhW.02.01
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- Title
- Okanagan Lake
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.5 x 75 cm
- Subject
- landscape, lake
- architecture, rural
- Credit
- Gift of Esso Resources Ltd., 1980
- Catalogue Number
- VhW.02.01
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- Date
- 1893
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.02.03
- Description
- Scene in a forest with a stream. Overall green value of the painting, - there is a herring standing in the steam just below center at the narrowest part where the stream seems to drop to a lower level. - dark green shadows across the top of the trees where they appear to canopy the scene. - dark br…
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- Title
- His Haunt
- Date
- 1893
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45.5 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- Scene in a forest with a stream. Overall green value of the painting, - there is a herring standing in the steam just below center at the narrowest part where the stream seems to drop to a lower level. - dark green shadows across the top of the trees where they appear to canopy the scene. - dark brown bank to the left of the steam, and a dark green/yellow to the right of the stream.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- heron
- stream
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.02.03
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Rockies in Moonlight
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- Date
- 1898
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- RuG.02.01
- Description
- Moonlit scene of the Canadian Rockies. The snowy peaks of a mountain are lit up by a crescent shaped moon in the top right corner. A wall of blue and grey mountain makes up most of the painting. The impression of trees is visible at the base of the mountain. The sky is a dark blue.
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- Title
- Rockies in Moonlight
- Date
- 1898
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Description
- Moonlit scene of the Canadian Rockies. The snowy peaks of a mountain are lit up by a crescent shaped moon in the top right corner. A wall of blue and grey mountain makes up most of the painting. The impression of trees is visible at the base of the mountain. The sky is a dark blue.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- night
- moonlight
- Credit
- Purchased from The Collector’s Gallery, Calgary, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- RuG.02.01
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.066
- Description
- Three men sitting on chairs.
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- Title
- Rankin
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- Three men sitting on chairs.
- Subject
- figure, group
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.066
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.067
- Description
- Small village on coast. Mountains on far right side of image.
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- Title
- Pangnirtung
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- Small village on coast. Mountains on far right side of image.
- Subject
- architecture
- rural
- landscape
- coastal
- Rankin
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.067
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Inuit Girl, Rankin Inlet
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.096
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.096
- Description
- Portrait of an Inuk girl.
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- Title
- Inuit Girl, Rankin Inlet
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- Portrait of an Inuk girl.
- Subject
- portrait, female
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.096
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View from Williamson Lake, Rankin Inlet Airstrip
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.205
- Description
- A roadway winds it's way up from the left hand corner onto the runway. A green blue field filled with weeds grow in front of the air strip. Several rough sketch are visible on the horizon. A light white blue sky takes up 2/3 of the sketch.
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- Title
- View from Williamson Lake, Rankin Inlet Airstrip
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- A roadway winds it's way up from the left hand corner onto the runway. A green blue field filled with weeds grow in front of the air strip. Several rough sketch are visible on the horizon. A light white blue sky takes up 2/3 of the sketch.
- Subject
- landscape
- transportation
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.205
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Inuit Girls Sleeping, Pangnirtung
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.213
- Description
- A small sketch of two girls lying in bed. The red blankets covering an imaginary bed are tucked underneath their necks. Their heads are turned to the side. Both of them have black hair. The background has been partially roughed in, in pencil on the bare canvas.
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- Title
- Inuit Girls Sleeping, Pangnirtung
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- A small sketch of two girls lying in bed. The red blankets covering an imaginary bed are tucked underneath their necks. Their heads are turned to the side. Both of them have black hair. The background has been partially roughed in, in pencil on the bare canvas.
- Subject
- figure, group
- female
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.213
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Rankin Inlet, North West Territories
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.247
- Description
- View of a coastal mining town. A light brown-grey road winds from the foreground to the processing plant in the background. The plant has many grey chutes and a black tower which rises on the left-hand side. A building with a bright green facade is located near the centre of the plant towards the e…
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- Title
- Rankin Inlet, North West Territories
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- View of a coastal mining town. A light brown-grey road winds from the foreground to the processing plant in the background. The plant has many grey chutes and a black tower which rises on the left-hand side. A building with a bright green facade is located near the centre of the plant towards the end of the road. The road is lined with buildings on both sides. A church with a grey steeple and a light blue roof is found on the right side. The sky contains horizontal layers of grey clouds which gradually become a medium blue near a strip of light blue water just above the church.
- Subject
- landscape
- architecture
- rural
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.247
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Northern Lake, near Rankin
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.278
- Description
- In the lower third of the picture is an expanse of land, coloured with touches of brown, ochre, red-brown and green. Three pools of water are visible: two are lines placed near the horizon, and the third, closer to the viewer, is shaped like an oval. The water is steel-grey blue. The sky above the …
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- Title
- Northern Lake, near Rankin
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- In the lower third of the picture is an expanse of land, coloured with touches of brown, ochre, red-brown and green. Three pools of water are visible: two are lines placed near the horizon, and the third, closer to the viewer, is shaped like an oval. The water is steel-grey blue. The sky above the horizon is light blue, while horizontal bands of violet-grey clouds hang above it.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.278
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Looking South from Inukshuk Hill, near Rankin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.279
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.279
- Description
- The foreground contains exposed rock, coloured violet-grey, with areas of ground (composed of touches of brown, red-brown and green). In the middleground, thin lines of exposed rock lie in light grey-blue water. The horizon is a line of violet-grey. The upper two-thirds of the composition contains …
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- Title
- Looking South from Inukshuk Hill, near Rankin
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- The foreground contains exposed rock, coloured violet-grey, with areas of ground (composed of touches of brown, red-brown and green). In the middleground, thin lines of exposed rock lie in light grey-blue water. The horizon is a line of violet-grey. The upper two-thirds of the composition contains a mass of grey and blue-grey clouds. This mass is partially divided in two by a horizontal edge of higher blue-grey cloud meeting some lower light grey clouds.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.279
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.280
- Description
- View of a village under vast clouds, with a stretch of water in the distance. In the left foreground is a rectangular home, whose walls are made up of ochre, yellow and red sections. A roughly sketched rise of brown, brown-grey and blue rock lies in the right foreground. A brown road swings between…
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- Title
- Frobisher Bay
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- View of a village under vast clouds, with a stretch of water in the distance. In the left foreground is a rectangular home, whose walls are made up of ochre, yellow and red sections. A roughly sketched rise of brown, brown-grey and blue rock lies in the right foreground. A brown road swings between the foreground house and rocks. Beyond this, is a line of green, red and blue houses. Tall black poles rise up from among the homes. Near the centre of the picture is a short stretch of white, indicating a body of water. Above the horizon are layers of violet-grey clouds (with touches of ochre and pink). Lighter violet-grey clouds extend upwards on the right-hand side, while pale grey-yellow clouds rise on the left-hand side. An area of blue sky stretches diagonally from the upper left corner towards the lower right section of the sketch.
- Subject
- architecture, rural
- seascape
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.280
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Rankin Inlet, North West Territories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.381
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.381
- Description
- The shapes that are recognizable depict a type of factory with a couple of buildings in the foreground on the right side of the center. There is some green grass on the left and the sky is clear white.
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- Title
- Rankin Inlet, North West Territories
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 30.0 cm
- Description
- The shapes that are recognizable depict a type of factory with a couple of buildings in the foreground on the right side of the center. There is some green grass on the left and the sky is clear white.
- Subject
- architecture
- factory
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.381
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- Artist
- Sasa
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- SaS.02.01
- Description
- General colour: greys. One inch up from bottom in the center is a black pool of water. Above that to the left is a group of trees. The pale blue sky comes down at the top center in a wide U shape. The rocks are reaching to the top of the picture on either side.
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- Artist
- Sasa
- Title
- Sentinal Pass
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 20.4 cm
- Description
- General colour: greys. One inch up from bottom in the center is a black pool of water. Above that to the left is a group of trees. The pale blue sky comes down at the top center in a wide U shape. The rocks are reaching to the top of the picture on either side.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
- Catalogue Number
- SaS.02.01
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- Artist
- Robert Muskego
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- MuR.02.03
- Description
- Three abstract geese in flight; signed Robert Muskego/71 blc. Imagery is derived from cover painting for I Am An Indian ed. Kent Carpenter, published 1967 (approx.).
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- Artist
- Robert Muskego
- Title
- Three Geese
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 39.6 x 54.6 cm
- Description
- Three abstract geese in flight; signed Robert Muskego/71 blc. Imagery is derived from cover painting for I Am An Indian ed. Kent Carpenter, published 1967 (approx.).
- Subject
- animal, geese
- symbolism
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MuR.02.03
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Deep in the Woods
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- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.06
- Description
- Close up painting of conifer trees in varying shades of green. Green slope under trees at left and sliver of grey mountains seen in background through trees. Fluffy white clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” at lower right corner. On back “Deep in the Woods. Fr. Kaquitts (Sitting Wind) Indian N…
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- Title
- Deep in the Woods
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- Close up painting of conifer trees in varying shades of green. Green slope under trees at left and sliver of grey mountains seen in background through trees. Fluffy white clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” at lower right corner. On back “Deep in the Woods. Fr. Kaquitts (Sitting Wind) Indian Name. Sept 1971.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.06
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- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.09
- Description
- Painting of blue lake with trees on shore in middle of a green meadow. Rocks in foreground. Rolling hills and grey mountains in background. Gradient blue sky with white clouds. “SITTING WIND” lower right corner. On back: “By the Lake. F. Kaquitts (Sitting Wind) Indian name” Sept. 1971.”
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- Title
- By The Lake
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Painting of blue lake with trees on shore in middle of a green meadow. Rocks in foreground. Rolling hills and grey mountains in background. Gradient blue sky with white clouds. “SITTING WIND” lower right corner. On back: “By the Lake. F. Kaquitts (Sitting Wind) Indian name” Sept. 1971.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.09
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How the Beaver got His Tail
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- Artist
- Wayne Matchatis
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on canvas on cardboard
- Catalogue Number
- MtW.02.01
- Description
- Symbolic s-curve drawing of the evolution of how the beaver got his tail, black on white, some of the forms are filled in solid.
- Artist
- Wayne Matchatis
- Title
- How the Beaver got His Tail
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on canvas on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 30 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Symbolic s-curve drawing of the evolution of how the beaver got his tail, black on white, some of the forms are filled in solid.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MtW.02.01
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- Artist
- Doug Klein
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- KlD.02.01
- Description
- A large, red grain elevator is in the center right of picture, another white elevator is down the line to the left. A white railway crossing sign is in the left center. Tall green grass in the foreground, blue sky, streaked with white and yellows. The red elevator is Pioneer.
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- Artist
- Doug Klein
- Title
- Waka, Sask.
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45.3 x 60.2 cm
- Description
- A large, red grain elevator is in the center right of picture, another white elevator is down the line to the left. A white railway crossing sign is in the left center. Tall green grass in the foreground, blue sky, streaked with white and yellows. The red elevator is Pioneer.
- Subject
- landscape, rural
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- KlD.02.01
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