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Warden’s Wife Hoisting Pack Box
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdip.03.01
- 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.”
- Credit
- Gift of Peggy Dixon, Milk River, 2012
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.01
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Stove Pipe Oven
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdip.03.02
- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.02
- Description
- A stove pipe oven sits on a wood floor. Two pans and a long metal tube hang on the right wall. A kettle sits on the stove. At the bottom right “IP 32.”
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- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Title
- Stove Pipe Oven
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 24 x 22 cm
- Description
- A stove pipe oven sits on a wood floor. Two pans and a long metal tube hang on the right wall. A kettle sits on the stove. At the bottom right “IP 32.”
- Subject
- stove pipe oven
- kettle
- Credit
- Gift of Peggy Dixon, Milk River, 2012
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.02
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Grizzly on Elk Carcass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdip.03.03
- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.03
- Description
- A grizzly leans into the left side of the image, with a paw on an elk carcass.
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- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Title
- Grizzly on Elk Carcass
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 24.5 x 29 cm
- Description
- A grizzly leans into the left side of the image, with a paw on an elk carcass.
- Credit
- Gift of Peggy Dixon, Milk River, 2012
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.03
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- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.04
- Description
- An antelope faces to the right in fully body profile. Grass lines the bottom of the image. At the lower right corner of the matt “IP 33.” On the back of the image is an erased sketch of a person riding a horse on the right, and a person holding a rope on the left.
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- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Title
- Antelope Buck
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 20.3 cm
- Description
- An antelope faces to the right in fully body profile. Grass lines the bottom of the image. At the lower right corner of the matt “IP 33.” On the back of the image is an erased sketch of a person riding a horse on the right, and a person holding a rope on the left.
- Credit
- Gift of Peggy Dixon, Milk River, 2012
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.04
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- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.05
- Description
- A person in a ball cap sits in the foreground on a log, holding on to a branch. The lower body is nude, the upper body covered with a flowered blanket. In the background a person sits on horseback, holding a second horse. Foliage sits in the foreground. Rain is presented diagonally across the entir…
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- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Title
- Potty Break
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 22 x 24 cm
- Description
- A person in a ball cap sits in the foreground on a log, holding on to a branch. The lower body is nude, the upper body covered with a flowered blanket. In the background a person sits on horseback, holding a second horse. Foliage sits in the foreground. Rain is presented diagonally across the entirety of the image.
- Credit
- Gift of Peggy Dixon, Milk River, 2012
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.05
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Packhorse with Pram
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdip.03.06
- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.06
- Description
- A horse walks in full body profile across the centre of the image. A rock is in the bottom right of the corner. A pram is upside down on the back of the horse, with the wheels in the hair, and the handle facing towards the back of the horse. Written at the bottom right “IP 40.”
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- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Title
- Packhorse with Pram
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.3 x 32.3 cm
- Description
- A horse walks in full body profile across the centre of the image. A rock is in the bottom right of the corner. A pram is upside down on the back of the horse, with the wheels in the hair, and the handle facing towards the back of the horse. Written at the bottom right “IP 40.”
- Credit
- Gift of Peggy Dixon, Milk River, 2012
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.06
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Mice by Pack Box
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdip.03.07
- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.07
- Description
- A wood box marked with “National Parks Canada” logo with a beaver. Two mice sit in the lower left.
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- Artist
- Peggy Dixon
- Title
- Mice by Pack Box
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 23.3 x 27 cm
- Description
- A wood box marked with “National Parks Canada” logo with a beaver. Two mice sit in the lower left.
- Subject
- woodbox
- National Parks Canada
- beaver
- mice
- Credit
- Gift of Peggy Dixon, Milk River, 2012
- Catalogue Number
- DiP.03.07
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Untitled [Mountains]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactunk.03.17
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1982
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.03.17
- Description
- Graphite drawing of mountains. Dark rounded shapes at bottom. Lighter, vertical peaks at the top. Beginning of drawing on verso.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled [Mountains]
- Date
- 1982
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Description
- Graphite drawing of mountains. Dark rounded shapes at bottom. Lighter, vertical peaks at the top. Beginning of drawing on verso.
- Credit
- Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.03.17
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Untitled (weaving patterns)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactanm.03.01
- Date
- 1982
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.03.01
- Description
- A framed piece of graph paper with six patterns of different sizes. There are notations on the bottom and side for each one. The work is done with India ink and pencil; six different ways of threading with one tie-up (the same tie-ups on the six examples) woven as drawn in. Measurements: top left a…
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- Title
- Untitled (weaving patterns)
- Date
- 1982
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 39.0 x 56.5 cm
- Description
- A framed piece of graph paper with six patterns of different sizes. There are notations on the bottom and side for each one. The work is done with India ink and pencil; six different ways of threading with one tie-up (the same tie-ups on the six examples) woven as drawn in. Measurements: top left and bottom left (14.8cmx14.8cm wide), middle top (14.5cm square), middle bottom(14.2cm square), top right (14.4cmx14.4cm wide) and bottom right (14.2cmx14.4cm wide).
- Subject
- weaving
- pattern
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.03.01
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Ruins at Bankhead
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgyh.03.38
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.03.38
- Description
- Mountain peaks on left and right top of work. Suggestion of a building or dam dominates the centre of the work. On back: “Ruins at Bankhead, August 1949.”
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- Title
- Ruins at Bankhead
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Description
- Mountain peaks on left and right top of work. Suggestion of a building or dam dominates the centre of the work. On back: “Ruins at Bankhead, August 1949.”
- Credit
- Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.03.38
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Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter 1949
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.722
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.722
- Description
- Rough sketch of the 1949 Christmas card. Scene depicts what looks like Norquay in the background, their home, and animals coming to and from the cabin. There is a rabbit watching the animals visiting and leaving the house, and a figure is slipping in a chair by the chimney stack. On the top edge “S…
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- Title
- Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter 1949
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.4 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Rough sketch of the 1949 Christmas card. Scene depicts what looks like Norquay in the background, their home, and animals coming to and from the cabin. There is a rabbit watching the animals visiting and leaving the house, and a figure is slipping in a chair by the chimney stack. On the top edge “SEASONS GREETINGS 1949” and on the bottom edge “CATHARINE AND PETER,” and “Peter Whyte” can be read. Near the TLC different dimensions are written out: “4 3/8 x 6 3/4” (above 6 3/4 there is a faint 6/8 written), “2 4 1/2 3 3/8,” “4 3/8 x 1 1/2.”verso: there is another rough sketch of the same scene seen on the the front side of the paper. In this image though there is no mountains in the background or the tree in front of the house.
- Subject
- Christmas card
- mountains
- tree
- house
- cabin
- rabbit
- mouse
- wolf
- deer
- bird
- figure
- sleeping
- chimney
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.722
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Untitled [War at Sea]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbxc.03.02
- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- graphite; crayon on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BxC.03.02
- Description
- General colour: blue and red pencil on yellowing pape. Lower center is a ship. Above it to the left is a plane being blown up by two rocket guns at the right side. There is another ship in the distance lower right and another plane in the distance upper right of enter.Montgomery, Son of Beverly Bax…
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- Title
- Untitled [War at Sea]
- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- graphite; crayon on paper
- Dimensions
- 11.0 x 18.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue and red pencil on yellowing pape. Lower center is a ship. Above it to the left is a plane being blown up by two rocket guns at the right side. There is another ship in the distance lower right and another plane in the distance upper right of enter.Montgomery, Son of Beverly Baxter, British Statesman.
- Subject
- transportation
- airplane
- war
- Credit
- Gift of H. (Mrs.) T. Montgomery, Banff, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- BxC.03.02
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A Merry Christmas to Mother Robb from Peter
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.707
- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.707
- Description
- Sketch of the Whyte’s home during winter with a loosely drawn version of Cascade mountain behind it. Various animals walking up to and from the house. Under BLC of the border it says “A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO MOTHER ROBB FROM PETER”, and in BRC the the suggested dimensions of “6 1/2 x 8”
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- Title
- A Merry Christmas to Mother Robb from Peter
- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.6 x 27.4 cm
- Description
- Sketch of the Whyte’s home during winter with a loosely drawn version of Cascade mountain behind it. Various animals walking up to and from the house. Under BLC of the border it says “A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO MOTHER ROBB FROM PETER”, and in BRC the the suggested dimensions of “6 1/2 x 8”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.707
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- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.708
- Description
- Loose sketch of 1948 Christmas card with two larger versions of the moose being practiced. In TR section there are two ink scribbles, while in BLC there is a blue watercolour marks.Verso: loose sketch of a moose head and a jeep, more black ink scribbles, BRC there is a small box, and two practice s…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.8 x 27.7 cm
- Description
- Loose sketch of 1948 Christmas card with two larger versions of the moose being practiced. In TR section there are two ink scribbles, while in BLC there is a blue watercolour marks.Verso: loose sketch of a moose head and a jeep, more black ink scribbles, BRC there is a small box, and two practice signatures near TRC
- Subject
- Christmas card
- jeep
- moose
- mountains
- people
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.708
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Andre and A.Y. at Sunshine
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- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.03.04
- Description
- General colour: pencil on white. Two men in suits sitting at a table. The one in front faces right and is writing. The one behind faces more out and is reading. He wears glasses. Behind them in the upper left corner are book shelves. In the upper right corner is a lamp.
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- Title
- Andre and A.Y. at Sunshine
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 29.0 x 36.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: pencil on white. Two men in suits sitting at a table. The one in front faces right and is writing. The one behind faces more out and is reading. He wears glasses. Behind them in the upper left corner are book shelves. In the upper right corner is a lamp.
- Credit
- Purchased from Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.03.04
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.696
- Description
- Man sitting on mountain ledge painting on a canvas and easel setup, with his skis off to the side. “P.W.” is initialed below the skis
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 23.0 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- Man sitting on mountain ledge painting on a canvas and easel setup, with his skis off to the side. “P.W.” is initialed below the skis
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.696
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Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter 1947
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.718
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.718
- Description
- A detailed sketch of the 1947 Christmas card. Animals join Catharine at the Dutch door of her home where she is serving them some food. On the top edge of drawing is reads “SEASONS GREETINGS” and along the bottom of the page “CATHARINE AND PETER” and “Peter Whyte 47 BANFF.” In the BLC “Catharine” i…
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- Title
- Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter 1947
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 21.3 cm
- Description
- A detailed sketch of the 1947 Christmas card. Animals join Catharine at the Dutch door of her home where she is serving them some food. On the top edge of drawing is reads “SEASONS GREETINGS” and along the bottom of the page “CATHARINE AND PETER” and “Peter Whyte 47 BANFF.” In the BLC “Catharine” is written.Inside the fold of the paper you can see a simple sketch of the floor plan of their cabin (main level), and inside one room it reads “kitchen.” On the bottom half of the page there is multiple squirrels drawn out. verso: there is a rough sketch of what looks like a landscape, with multiple birds drawn around it.
- Subject
- Christmas card
- cabin
- winter
- food
- moose
- deer
- bird
- squirrel
- floor plan
- kitchen
- wolf
- bear
- Banff
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.718
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Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.719
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.719
- Description
- A rough sketch of the 1947 Christmas card. A figure stands in the opening of the Dutch door while the animals surround the cabin. Written on the top edge “SEASONS GREETINGS,” along the bottom edge “CATHARINE AND PETER,” “Peter Whyte BANFF.” Near the BRC “6 1/2” and close to the TRC “3 1/2,” besides…
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- Title
- Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 10.0 x 15.9 cm
- Description
- A rough sketch of the 1947 Christmas card. A figure stands in the opening of the Dutch door while the animals surround the cabin. Written on the top edge “SEASONS GREETINGS,” along the bottom edge “CATHARINE AND PETER,” “Peter Whyte BANFF.” Near the BRC “6 1/2” and close to the TRC “3 1/2,” besides both numbers it appears to say “inches.”verso: landscape with an artist sitting at the top of the hill painting, there is a plane and a mountain in the background. In the BLC there are ink scribbles and “Peter Whyte” as a practice signature and the initials “P.W.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.719
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- Date
- 1944
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.667
- Description
- pencil drawing of 2 figures on action, in to TRC is a small crash site with the words “BAGPIPES BAGPIPES”
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1944
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.5 x 24.0 cm
- Description
- pencil drawing of 2 figures on action, in to TRC is a small crash site with the words “BAGPIPES BAGPIPES”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.667
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- Date
- 1944
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.668
- Description
- men marching to the right of the page with dog leading the way
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1944
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 24 x 31.5 cm
- Description
- men marching to the right of the page with dog leading the way
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.668
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