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Storm Clouds Above Victoria Glacier, Pipestone River

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.133

Description: Colour: green, yellow, grey. In the foreground are bright purple and pink shrubs in the green grass. Three yellow larches stand left of center. A sliver of blue water can be seen across the picture and the far shore starts an inch up from the bottom. Trees and green hills fill the rest of the lower…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Storm Clouds Above Victoria Glacier, Pipestone River

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 11 x 9 cm

Description: Colour: green, yellow, grey. In the foreground are bright purple and pink shrubs in the green grass. Three yellow larches stand left of center. A sliver of blue water can be seen across the picture and the far shore starts an inch up from the bottom. Trees and green hills fill the rest of the lower half. Grey sky with hints of purple mountains fill the top.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; glacier; Victoria Glacier; river; Pipestone River

Credit: Gift of Margaret White, Kamloops, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.133

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Columbia Icefield

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.277

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Columbia Icefield

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 13.7 x 15.0 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.277

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Assiniboine Glacier

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

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.038

Description: White glacier in beige mountain.

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

Title: Assiniboine Glacier

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16.0 x 22.2 cm

Description: White glacier in beige mountain.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.038

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Ice Blocks, Toe, Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1942

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.012

Description: Colour: blue. Huge chunks of ice fill the lower three quarters of the picture. Behind to the left is a dark ridge of rock. Behind at center is a purple ridge of mountain with sky in the upper right corner and across the upper edge to left of center.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Ice Blocks, Toe, Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1942

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 63 x 76 cm

Description: Colour: blue. Huge chunks of ice fill the lower three quarters of the picture. Behind to the left is a dark ridge of rock. Behind at center is a purple ridge of mountain with sky in the upper right corner and across the upper edge to left of center.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.012

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

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Lake Louise, Mount Lefroy and Mount Victoria

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.079

Description: Colour: white, blue, brown. The lower edge is rocks with a tree standing on the left side and a dead bush on the right. The lake is frozen to a third the way up. Snow and treed mountain slopes rise up beyond. The glacier can be seen on the right. A patch of blue sky is at the upper edge in the cent…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake Louise, Mount Lefroy and Mount Victoria

Date: 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: white, blue, brown. The lower edge is rocks with a tree standing on the left side and a dead bush on the right. The lake is frozen to a third the way up. Snow and treed mountain slopes rise up beyond. The glacier can be seen on the right. A patch of blue sky is at the upper edge in the center.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.079

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

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Pilot Mountain

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Artist: Robert M. Dingwall

Date: 1961

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DnR.02.01

Description: In the bottom third of painting is thirteen single trees and a river with islands in it. The purple shadowed mountain rises up from there. A glacier on the left, the main peak left of center and two distant peaks to the right. Skin tone and yellow tinted clouds fill the top third. The signature in …

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Artist: Robert M. Dingwall

Title: Pilot Mountain

Date: 1961

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 54.9 x 70.3 cm

Description: In the bottom third of painting is thirteen single trees and a river with islands in it. The purple shadowed mountain rises up from there. A glacier on the left, the main peak left of center and two distant peaks to the right. Skin tone and yellow tinted clouds fill the top third. The signature in the lower left is signed in orange red.

Subject: landscape; mountain; glacier

Credit: Gift of eisler, Edmonton, 1972

Catalogue Number: DnR.02.01

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.07

Description: Blue green lake along lower edge. Large brown-grey mountains with strip of trees at lakeshore in background. Glacier at centre left with waterfall. Fluffy clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner. On back “Bow Lake. $25.00. July, 1969. Frank Kaquitts Morley Alberta. Indian nam…

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1969

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 30.5 x 40.5 cm

Description: Blue green lake along lower edge. Large brown-grey mountains with strip of trees at lakeshore in background. Glacier at centre left with waterfall. Fluffy clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner. On back “Bow Lake. $25.00. July, 1969. Frank Kaquitts Morley Alberta. Indian name Sitting Wind.”

Subject: Bow Lake; lake; mountains; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.07

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Glacier Study #1

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Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Date: 2006 – 2006

Medium: oil on masonite board

Catalogue Number: GrL.01.46

Description: An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are blue, green, purple and beige. The sky is a solid wash of blue, and the remainder of the work is a mixture of shades, prominently green on the left, beige closer to the sky, and purple mixed with green on the right. One of the moun…

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Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Title: Glacier Study #1

Date: 2006 – 2006

Medium: oil on masonite board

Dimensions: 35.6 x 45.7 cm

Description: An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are blue, green, purple and beige. The sky is a solid wash of blue, and the remainder of the work is a mixture of shades, prominently green on the left, beige closer to the sky, and purple mixed with green on the right. One of the mountains on the left is highlighted with a stroke of orange. The glacier is in the centre right of the image. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in blue paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “50/A-3”.

Subject: landscape; mountain; glacier

Credit: Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2008

Catalogue Number: GrL.01.46

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Opabin Lake and Pass

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.076

Description: Colour: green, brown, white. In the foreground along the lower edge are trees and rocks and grass. Three trees stand right of center. Behind is a flat green lake. The far shore starts a third the way up and becomes a glacier at two thirds up. There is brown scree at the top with a patch of blue sky…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Opabin Lake and Pass

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35.0 cm

Description: Colour: green, brown, white. In the foreground along the lower edge are trees and rocks and grass. Three trees stand right of center. Behind is a flat green lake. The far shore starts a third the way up and becomes a glacier at two thirds up. There is brown scree at the top with a patch of blue sky at the upper right of center edge.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.076

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Columbia Icefield

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.102

Description: Colour: brown, white, yellow, green. The foreground is green and yellow grass with one bare tree left of center. The middleground is brown slopes. A rocky peak reaches up the left side. The upper half is a snow covered slope with a rocky point sticking out a few places.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Columbia Icefield

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: brown, white, yellow, green. The foreground is green and yellow grass with one bare tree left of center. The middleground is brown slopes. A rocky peak reaches up the left side. The upper half is a snow covered slope with a rocky point sticking out a few places.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.102

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.103

Description: Colour: blue greys. The central image is a mass of blue grey ice which takes up the middle two quarters. The upper and lower quarters being white patches of snow on a brown grey ground.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: blue greys. The central image is a mass of blue grey ice which takes up the middle two quarters. The upper and lower quarters being white patches of snow on a brown grey ground.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake; ice; snow; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.103

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Lake Louise, Fall

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.116

Description: Colour: light blue, brown, black. The lower area is lake. From the center on each side rise black mountain slopes. The blue glacier sits in the middle. Above that are brown mountain slopes and blue tops. Some sky visible in te upper left and along the edge.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake Louise, Fall

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: light blue, brown, black. The lower area is lake. From the center on each side rise black mountain slopes. The blue glacier sits in the middle. Above that are brown mountain slopes and blue tops. Some sky visible in te upper left and along the edge.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.116

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Lake Louise

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.117

Description: Colour: Warm blues, black, grey. A lake crosses the lower edge. Two black strips of trees go up each side from the center at the bottom of the glacier. Behind the glacier is a rock fall leading to a snow ridge and to the left a rock peak. The sky is the same colour as the snow-grey.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake Louise

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: Warm blues, black, grey. A lake crosses the lower edge. Two black strips of trees go up each side from the center at the bottom of the glacier. Behind the glacier is a rock fall leading to a snow ridge and to the left a rock peak. The sky is the same colour as the snow-grey.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.117

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

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.089

Description: Colour: blue, green. Central image is a fan shaped glacier emptying into a pool of warm blue water surrounded by green grass along the bottom and a third the way up. Beyond the glacier to the left is rock mountain side which goes off the left side. In the upper right corner is sky which meets dista…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green. Central image is a fan shaped glacier emptying into a pool of warm blue water surrounded by green grass along the bottom and a third the way up. Beyond the glacier to the left is rock mountain side which goes off the left side. In the upper right corner is sky which meets distant slopes.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.089

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.002

Description: Colour: blue, grey, yellow, red brown. A dead gnarled tree leans up the left side from a ground cover of yellow and red-brown bushes. At the right side are four evergreens. Behind and central is a huge glacier banked on either side by rock face. Across the top is clouds and blue sky.See sketches Wy…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1940 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 63.5 x 76.0 cm

Description: Colour: blue, grey, yellow, red brown. A dead gnarled tree leans up the left side from a ground cover of yellow and red-brown bushes. At the right side are four evergreens. Behind and central is a huge glacier banked on either side by rock face. Across the top is clouds and blue sky.See sketches WyP.01.537 and WyP.01.158

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.002

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

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Peyto Glacier and Lateral Moraine

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Artist: R. C. Riley

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: RiR.02.01

Description: Overall colour is light blue and white indicating snow, ice and clouds, a glacier runs from near top right to near bottom left, rocks in foreground, green trees behind the rocks, one lone evergreen tree near left edge.

Artist: R. C. Riley

Title: Peyto Glacier and Lateral Moraine

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 40.0 x 50.5 cm

Description: Overall colour is light blue and white indicating snow, ice and clouds, a glacier runs from near top right to near bottom left, rocks in foreground, green trees behind the rocks, one lone evergreen tree near left edge.

Subject: landscape; mountain; glacier

Credit: Gift of Alpine Club of Canada, Canmore, 1973

Catalogue Number: RiR.02.01

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Lake Oesa

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

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.063

Description: Lake Oesa at the base of Glacier Peak.

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

Title: Lake Oesa

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.8 x 28.0 cm

Description: Lake Oesa at the base of Glacier Peak.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Lake Oesa; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.063

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Toe of Athabasca Glacier, Columbia Icefield

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

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.286

Description: View of the edge of a glacier. In the foreground (the lower third of the picture) are areas of grey interlocking with areas of light grey-yellow green. In the background is a rounded rise of ice with its surface coloured pale yellow and white, and crevasses of light-blue, grey-green and green-blue …

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

Title: Toe of Athabasca Glacier, Columbia Icefield

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas on masonite

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: View of the edge of a glacier. In the foreground (the lower third of the picture) are areas of grey interlocking with areas of light grey-yellow green. In the background is a rounded rise of ice with its surface coloured pale yellow and white, and crevasses of light-blue, grey-green and green-blue (with some outlines of dark blue). The bottom edge of the glacier is a cliff of ice, which extends from the righthand side of the picture and almost reaches the lefthand side. At the top of the sketch, a strip of blue sky is found on the left and an area of brown wash is on the right.