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The Dog and the Hare

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Artist: Arthur Rackham (1867 – 1939, British)

Date: 1912

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: RaA.03.01

Description: Dog has pipe and walking stick and plaid cap and topcoat, hare has purple bonnet and purse. Signed and dated A. Rackham 1912 brc, signed on mat The Dog & the Hare, Aesop's Fables p.145.

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Artist: Arthur Rackham (1867 – 1939, British)

Title: The Dog and the Hare

Date: 1912

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 20.8 x 25.2 cm

Description: Dog has pipe and walking stick and plaid cap and topcoat, hare has purple bonnet and purse. Signed and dated A. Rackham 1912 brc, signed on mat The Dog & the Hare, Aesop's Fables p.145.

Subject: animal; dog; hare; mythological

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

Catalogue Number: RaA.03.01

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The Cock and the Jewel

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Artist: Arthur Rackham (1867 – 1939, British)

Date: 1912

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: RaA.03.02

Description: One cock and three hens in landscape. Beige, blue, black, red colour washes dominant. Signed blc A. Rackham 1912. Pencilled note to engraver at bottom of picture says 6 high with an arrow indicating up. Written on discard backing board said Aesop's Fables-1912 The Cock and the Jewel p. 121

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Artist: Arthur Rackham (1867 – 1939, British)

Title: The Cock and the Jewel

Date: 1912

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 26.6 x 18.3 cm

Description: One cock and three hens in landscape. Beige, blue, black, red colour washes dominant. Signed blc A. Rackham 1912. Pencilled note to engraver at bottom of picture says 6 high with an arrow indicating up. Written on discard backing board said Aesop's Fables-1912 The Cock and the Jewel p. 121

Subject: animal; chicken; mythological

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

Catalogue Number: RaA.03.02

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.841

Description: A woman standing barefoot, wearing a head wrap and a dress. She is looking out to the right and her left hand is on her hip, while the right is gesturing to objects behind her.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 21.2 cm

Description: A woman standing barefoot, wearing a head wrap and a dress. She is looking out to the right and her left hand is on her hip, while the right is gesturing to objects behind her.

Subject: person; woman; dress; head wrap

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.841

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Untitled [Saddle Horse]

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.01

Description: A sketch of a saddled and bridled horse. The horse is facing to right of picture, his tail is tied up, he is standing in snow. A faint drawing of a log house is in centre background, a buffalo skull is over the door. A circle resembling a compass is in bottom right of picture. The reverse of this d…

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [Saddle Horse]

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 19.5 x 36.5 cm

Description: A sketch of a saddled and bridled horse. The horse is facing to right of picture, his tail is tied up, he is standing in snow. A faint drawing of a log house is in centre background, a buffalo skull is over the door. A circle resembling a compass is in bottom right of picture. The reverse of this drawing has a pen and ink sketch of an airplane, of WW I vintage, the pilot can be seen in the cockpit.

Subject: animal; horse; architecture; rural; log cabin

Credit: Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.01

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Bill Neish's Horse 1936

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

Date: 1936

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.01

Description: General colour: brown on white. A horse saddled and carrying a rifle, saddle bags, and another case. Stands facing left. His ears are perked. Around the edges are notes by the artist regarding colouration.

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

Title: Bill Neish's Horse 1936

Date: 1936

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 28.0 x 38.0 cm

Description: General colour: brown on white. A horse saddled and carrying a rifle, saddle bags, and another case. Stands facing left. His ears are perked. Around the edges are notes by the artist regarding colouration.

Subject: animal; horse

Credit: Gift of Helen Collinson, Edmonton, 1974

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.01

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Alpine Ibex

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

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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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

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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Head of a Caribou

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Date: 1944

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: ThM.03.01

Description: Colour: grey on white. A caribou head looking left.

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Title: Head of a Caribou

Date: 1944

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.5 cm

Description: Colour: grey on white. A caribou head looking left.

Subject: animal; caribou

Credit: Gift of Forrest (Pat) Oliver Brewster, Banff, 1967

Catalogue Number: ThM.03.01

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Caribou

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Date: 1944

Medium: charcoal on paper

Catalogue Number: ThM.03.03

Description: General colour: white and black on grey. The left profile of a caribou drawn in the centre of the picture.

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Title: Caribou

Date: 1944

Medium: charcoal on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.0 cm

Description: General colour: white and black on grey. The left profile of a caribou drawn in the centre of the picture.

Subject: animal; caribou

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: ThM.03.03

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Miners' Homes, Canmore

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1944

Medium: wax crayon on paper

Catalogue Number: DaK.03.24

Description: A boy on a horse in bottom right foreground is riding down a street, houses lined along the street centre right. Mountains in the background. Bottom left of picture is blank.

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Miners' Homes, Canmore

Date: 1944

Medium: wax crayon on paper

Dimensions: 29.3 x 37.0 cm

Description: A boy on a horse in bottom right foreground is riding down a street, houses lined along the street centre right. Mountains in the background. Bottom left of picture is blank.

Subject: architecture; urban; figure; boy; animal; horse; landscape; The Three Sisters

Credit: Purchased from Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper, 1989

Catalogue Number: DaK.03.24

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Mountain Goat

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Date: 1946

Medium: charcoal on paper

Catalogue Number: ThM.03.02

Description: General colour: black and white on grey. The head and shoulders of a mountain goat. His two black horns reaching up into the top of the picture and his head turned out.

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Title: Mountain Goat

Date: 1946

Medium: charcoal on paper

Dimensions: 45.5 x 28.8 cm

Description: General colour: black and white on grey. The head and shoulders of a mountain goat. His two black horns reaching up into the top of the picture and his head turned out.

Subject: animal; mountain goat

Credit: Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1969

Catalogue Number: ThM.03.02

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Best Wishes Peter

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1951

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.772

Description: Christmas card sketch, resembling the final version of the 1951 card. Animals gather around Catharine and Peter’s vehicle waiting for Catharine to finish cooking. Peter sits on the roof reading. One of the bears is sitting by a stool with a fork in hand. Near the middle of the bottom edge of the pa…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Best Wishes Peter

Date: 1951

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 28.0 cm

Description: Christmas card sketch, resembling the final version of the 1951 card. Animals gather around Catharine and Peter’s vehicle waiting for Catharine to finish cooking. Peter sits on the roof reading. One of the bears is sitting by a stool with a fork in hand. Near the middle of the bottom edge of the paper it says “BEST WISHES PETER”verso: rectangular box drawn that is blank, that could have been used for another sketch.

Subject: bears; stool; fork; moose; birds; squirrel; rabbit; tree; cooking; pot; woman; man; reading; vehicle; Christmas card

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.772

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Seasons Greetings Peter and Catharine 1954

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1954

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.799

Description: Peter and Catharine are sitting on stools at their easels painting a mountain landscape in front of them. There is a group of animals sitting around them watching them paint. On the bottom edge of the drawing it says “SEASONS GREETINGS 1954 PETER AND CATHARINE”verso: rough sketch of the same drawin…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Seasons Greetings Peter and Catharine 1954

Date: 1954

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 21.1 x 27.6 cm

Description: Peter and Catharine are sitting on stools at their easels painting a mountain landscape in front of them. There is a group of animals sitting around them watching them paint. On the bottom edge of the drawing it says “SEASONS GREETINGS 1954 PETER AND CATHARINE”verso: rough sketch of the same drawing that is on the front side. This image though is only of Peter painting, a rough idea of where Catharine would be sitting, and the moose.

Subject: Christmas card; painting; paint; brushes; hat; easel; canvas; birds; mountain range; mountain; grass; stump; moose; bear; deer; squirrel; wolf; stool; man; woman

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.799

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.804

Description: Ten small drawings of different activities occurring. 1) three people are walking over a hill with a couple of animals, 2) a group of people appear to be travelling in a convoy with a horse dragging goods behind it, 3) a group of people on horses moving across the land, 4) a person on a horse that …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1955

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 21.3 x 27.7 cm

Description: Ten small drawings of different activities occurring. 1) three people are walking over a hill with a couple of animals, 2) a group of people appear to be travelling in a convoy with a horse dragging goods behind it, 3) a group of people on horses moving across the land, 4) a person on a horse that is pulling supplies are coming up over a hill, there are tipis off in the background, 5) a group in a wagon follow behind another heading towards the mountains, 6) possibly a small hut with a person, and there is a hide stretched out on poles, 7) a group of people have assembled in an open area outdoors, 8) a person who appears to have a some sort of head ornament on is preparing to shoot an arrow with their bow, 9) a wooden drying rack with meat hanging from it, in front of it there looks like two people are sitting on the ground, and 10) a group of huts lined up near trees, there appears to be smoke coming out of ventilation areas on the roof. verso: a sketch of the 1955 Christmas card, another boxed off drawing of a person appearing to be playing a drum, a drawing that has some similarities to “Seven Teepees” (though completed about 20 years earlier, and a final boxed off drawing of a native man wearing a headdress.

Subject: tanning; hide; meat; meat drying; wagon; horse; people; hut; bow and arrow; tipi; headdress; Christmas card; moose; bear; deer; squirrel; man; woman; painting; easel; canvas; paint brush; music; drum

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.804

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A Hunter of Peace

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Artist: Alex Emond (1950 – , Canadian)

Date: 1980

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: EmA.03.02

Description: The back of the mane and ears of a horse is in the foreground bottom left. A trail from bottom left swings to the right. On the trail are two mounted horsemen. Standing to the left of the trail is a woman with hat in hand looking to the right. A ridge runs from bottom left to top right. There is a …

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Artist: Alex Emond (1950 – , Canadian)

Title: A Hunter of Peace

Date: 1980

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 24.9 x 65.7 cm

Description: The back of the mane and ears of a horse is in the foreground bottom left. A trail from bottom left swings to the right. On the trail are two mounted horsemen. Standing to the left of the trail is a woman with hat in hand looking to the right. A ridge runs from bottom left to top right. There is a mountain range to the left in the distance and one mountain in top right hand corner. Clouds along the horizon.

Subject: figure; Mary Schaffer; cowboys; animal; horse; landscape; Canadian Rockies; Alex Emond

Credit: Gift of Unknown, 1968

Catalogue Number: EmA.03.02

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Tea at the Whyte

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Artist: Therese Boyle (1952 – , Canadian)

Date: 1983

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BoT.03.01

Description: Alice in Wonderland tea with Alice, the rabbit and a moose sitting around a table. Alice is sitting in a high backed chair to left of picture, she has yellow hair, a blue ribbon and blue dress, the rabbit is to her left, he has a blue cap, purple bow tie, yellow shirt, the moose head and horns domi…

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Artist: Therese Boyle (1952 – , Canadian)

Title: Tea at the Whyte

Date: 1983

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 57.3 x 76.6 cm

Description: Alice in Wonderland tea with Alice, the rabbit and a moose sitting around a table. Alice is sitting in a high backed chair to left of picture, she has yellow hair, a blue ribbon and blue dress, the rabbit is to her left, he has a blue cap, purple bow tie, yellow shirt, the moose head and horns dominate top right centre of picture, he has a blue and yellow bow tie. The tea service is red, the background is blue the table cloth is white on top and yellow sides.

Subject: figure; female; character, Alice in Wonderland; animal; rabbit; moose; whimsical; teddy bear; Therese (Terri) Boyle

Credit: Purchased from Therese Boyle, Edmonton, 1983

Catalogue Number: BoT.03.01

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Warden’s Wife Hoisting Pack Box

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Artist: Peggy Dixon

Date: 1985

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: DiP.03.01

Description: At the centre of the image a woman stands with her back to the viewer, adjusting a pack box onto the side of a horse. The horse faces to the right. The legs and hat of a person is visible behind the horse. At the bottom corner “IP 39 Cover.”

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Artist: Peggy Dixon

Title: Warden’s Wife Hoisting Pack Box

Date: 1985

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 30.3 x 38 cm

Description: At the centre of the image a woman stands with her back to the viewer, adjusting a pack box onto the side of a horse. The horse faces to the right. The legs and hat of a person is visible behind the horse. At the bottom corner “IP 39 Cover.”