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Chilcotin Road

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: graphite; coloured graphite on curfew paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.03.03

Description: Small sketch of a road with foothills rolling off on either side of the road. The road leads to a mountain range; blue coloured pencil is used to accent the mountain peaks as well as blue spot rain/snow drops centre under image. Artist signature: centre under image Sinclair ‘69.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Chilcotin Road

Date: 1969

Medium: graphite; coloured graphite on curfew paper

Dimensions: 26.5 x 31.6 cm

Description: Small sketch of a road with foothills rolling off on either side of the road. The road leads to a mountain range; blue coloured pencil is used to accent the mountain peaks as well as blue spot rain/snow drops centre under image. Artist signature: centre under image Sinclair ‘69.

Subject: landscape; mountains; road; blue

Credit: Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010

Catalogue Number: SiR.03.03

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Clouded Road

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: graphite; crayon on curfew paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.03.08

Description: A road runs through the centre of the piece. Above the road is a cloud coloured in crayon in shades of purple and pink.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Clouded Road

Date: 1969

Medium: graphite; crayon on curfew paper

Dimensions: 26.1 x 31.5 cm

Description: A road runs through the centre of the piece. Above the road is a cloud coloured in crayon in shades of purple and pink.

Subject: landscape; road; mountain; pink; purple

Credit: Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010

Catalogue Number: SiR.03.08

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Textured Pass

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1968

Medium: graphite on curfew paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.03.07

Description: A road runs vertically down the bottom centre of the work. The top section of the piece is filled with sketchy suggestions of a mountain.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Textured Pass

Date: 1968

Medium: graphite on curfew paper

Dimensions: 26.5 x 31.8 cm

Description: A road runs vertically down the bottom centre of the work. The top section of the piece is filled with sketchy suggestions of a mountain.

Subject: landscape; road; mountain

Credit: Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010

Catalogue Number: SiR.03.07

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Road Fog

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1967

Medium: graphite; crayon on curfew paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.03.06

Description: A lot of curvy lines made by pencil that look like clouds or mountains. On the upper right there is a very small triangle with two black lines and a white stripe in the middle of the two which resembles a road. Signature bottom centre: “Sinclair ‘70”.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Road Fog

Date: 1967

Medium: graphite; crayon on curfew paper

Dimensions: 26.6 x 31.4 cm

Description: A lot of curvy lines made by pencil that look like clouds or mountains. On the upper right there is a very small triangle with two black lines and a white stripe in the middle of the two which resembles a road. Signature bottom centre: “Sinclair ‘70”.

Subject: landscape; road; mountain

Credit: Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010

Catalogue Number: SiR.03.06

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Peopled Road

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1967

Medium: graphite on curfew paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.03.02

Description: Impressionistic female face with clouds behind. Signature in the bottom rhc: SinclairPeopled Road is one of his early works to feature the road, in an evolutionary move to his Road Series.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Peopled Road

Date: 1967

Medium: graphite on curfew paper

Dimensions: 31.2 x 26.1 cm

Description: Impressionistic female face with clouds behind. Signature in the bottom rhc: SinclairPeopled Road is one of his early works to feature the road, in an evolutionary move to his Road Series.

Subject: landscape; cloud; road; person

Credit: Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010

Catalogue Number: SiR.03.02

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Elk Lake

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Part Of: Bob Hind fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to Elk Lake area in Kananaskis region of Alberta and BC. Includes landscape views, and photographs of group hiking and camps

Date Range: 1964

Reference Code: V46 / I / A / 42 / NS - 1 to 73

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

73 images 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Bob Hind fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M7; V46

Series: I.A. Mountain travel and recreation, western Canada : Trips and activities

Sous-Fonds: V46

Accession Number: 7181

Reference Code: V46 / I / A / 42 / NS - 1 to 73

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

Date Range: 1964

Physical Description: 73 photographs : transparencies, 35mm, col

Scope & Content: File pertains to Elk Lake area in Kananaskis region of Alberta and BC. Includes landscape views, and photographs of group hiking and camps

Geographic Access: Alberta; British Columbia

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.777

Description: a: A helicopter is rescuing a group of animals that are being held up by a stretcher that is tied to the bottom of the helicopter. The stretcher is tilted up in the left, and the scarves of the animals are blowing in the wind, suggesting that the helicopter is moving. There are birds flying around …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25.4 x 17.7 cm

Description: a: A helicopter is rescuing a group of animals that are being held up by a stretcher that is tied to the bottom of the helicopter. The stretcher is tilted up in the left, and the scarves of the animals are blowing in the wind, suggesting that the helicopter is moving. There are birds flying around with them. Down below and in the background there is a idyllic mountain range, and below it is says, “SEASONS GREETINGS CATHARINE AND PETER” b: As supplement to the drawing seen in a, b is a newspaper clipping of a helicopter rescuing a man from his plane. In the bottom portion of the clipping is states, “RESCUES AT SEA. The two pictures tell two...the Atlantic at the weekend. On the left, a U.S. navy...single-engine plane after he was forced to ditch today...harbor. Two young girls and another passenger were....a French trawler, is hauled ashore by breeches buoy fro...England Sunday...” verso: an article discussing a game played by the Calgary Stampeders against the Regina Roughriders. The writes: “Sandhogs Stampeder Blitz... Keys 25-0 Win. By Gorde Hunter [Herald Sports Editor]. A brilliant defence that allowed the Regina Rough-riders a total offence of a mere 32 years, powered the Calgary Stampeders to a one-sided 25-0 win over the Roughriders Saturday afternoon at McMahon in the first game of the Western Conference total point semi-final series. With a crowd of 17,780 sitting in bright sunshine, the Cowboys completely dominated proceedings from flag to finish as the sandhogs made a shambles of the Regina attack by putting a tremendous rush on quarterback Bob Ptacek, a thorn in Stampeder sides all season. He managed to complete but five passes in 17 attempts for 47 yeard and the ground attack had less success. Meanwhile EAgle Day guided the Stamps to three touch-downs, a field goal, two converts and a pair of singles to add up to the 25 points they will take into tonights’s second game...”

Subject: Christmas card; helicopter; mountains; mountain range; birds; rope; stretcher; squirrel; moose; bear; rabbit; wolf; deer; scarves; flying; rescue

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.777

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.779

Description: Rough sketch of a Christmas card idea boxed off on the paper. There is a mountain range on the bottom half with squiggly lines near the bottom edge referencing where the writing might go. Above in the TL quadrant there is a helicopter airlifting the animals out on a stretcher.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.6 x 21.3 cm

Description: Rough sketch of a Christmas card idea boxed off on the paper. There is a mountain range on the bottom half with squiggly lines near the bottom edge referencing where the writing might go. Above in the TL quadrant there is a helicopter airlifting the animals out on a stretcher.

Subject: helicopter; mountain; mountain range; stretcher; airlift; rescue; animals; flying; Christmas card

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.779

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.780

Description: A rough sketch of a group of animals on a sketcher that is tethered to a helicopter. There are birds flying around them, and their scarves are blowing in the wind suggesting that the helicopter is moving. Below the animals there is a mountain range.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 21.5 cm

Description: A rough sketch of a group of animals on a sketcher that is tethered to a helicopter. There are birds flying around them, and their scarves are blowing in the wind suggesting that the helicopter is moving. Below the animals there is a mountain range.

Subject: helicopter; flying; rescue; stretcher; birds; rope; moose; deer; wolf; squirrel; rabbit; bear; mountains; mountain range; scarf

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.780

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.783

Description: Four sketches that are close-ups of the Christmas card concept of 1962. The one on the top has the bear, deer, rabbit, moose and squirrel, below these two there are two singular drawings one of the deer on the right side of the stretcher and then an animal that is not easily defined, and on the bot…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.4 cm

Description: Four sketches that are close-ups of the Christmas card concept of 1962. The one on the top has the bear, deer, rabbit, moose and squirrel, below these two there are two singular drawings one of the deer on the right side of the stretcher and then an animal that is not easily defined, and on the bottom there is the left side of the stretcher with just the moose drawn.

Subject: rope; squirrel; moose; deer; bear; rabbit; stretcher; scarf; Christmas card

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.783

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.784

Description: A rough sketch for the 1962 Christmas card, the viewer is looking up at the bottom of the stretcher that is carrying six identifiable animals. The stretcher is tethered to a helicopter that can be seen above, and below the animals you can see an mountain range.verso: a loose boxed off sketch of a h…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.6 x 21.3 cm

Description: A rough sketch for the 1962 Christmas card, the viewer is looking up at the bottom of the stretcher that is carrying six identifiable animals. The stretcher is tethered to a helicopter that can be seen above, and below the animals you can see an mountain range.verso: a loose boxed off sketch of a helicopter lifting gestural drawings of figures on a surface attached to the helicopter.

Subject: helicopter; rescue; rope; stretcher; moose; rabbit; squirrel; bear; deer; mountains; mountain range; Christmas card

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.784

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.785

Description: Boxed off there is a rough sketch of the 1962 Christmas card. There is the mountain range in the bottom area of the drawing, and above you can make out five gestural drawings of animals that are sitting on a stretcher that is being airlifted out by a helicopter.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.6 x 21.3 cm

Description: Boxed off there is a rough sketch of the 1962 Christmas card. There is the mountain range in the bottom area of the drawing, and above you can make out five gestural drawings of animals that are sitting on a stretcher that is being airlifted out by a helicopter.

Subject: helicopter; mountains; mountain range; rope; stretcher; animals; moose; bear; deer; Christmas card

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.785

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.788

Description: A quick Christmas card sketch of a helicopter airlifting a group of animals out on a stretcher. There is a mountain range and clouds below them. In the BRC of the drawing there appears to be markings that could be Peter’s signature.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 21.3 cm

Description: A quick Christmas card sketch of a helicopter airlifting a group of animals out on a stretcher. There is a mountain range and clouds below them. In the BRC of the drawing there appears to be markings that could be Peter’s signature.

Subject: Christmas card; helicopter; flying; mountains; mountain range; clouds; stretcher; rope; rescue; animals; moose; deer; bear; squirrel; rabbit

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.788

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.789

Description: A boxed-off sketch for the 1962 Christmas card. A helicopter is airlifting a group of animals out of the mountains. The animals are on a stretcher of sorts with their scarves blowing in the wind.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.4 cm

Description: A boxed-off sketch for the 1962 Christmas card. A helicopter is airlifting a group of animals out of the mountains. The animals are on a stretcher of sorts with their scarves blowing in the wind.

Subject: Christmas card; helicopter; flying; rescue; rope; stretcher; mountains; mountain range; animals; moose; deer; bear; squirrel; scarves

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.789

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.790

Description: Quick sketch of a helicopter airlifting a group of animals out of the mountains. There is a mountain range below them, and birds flying around. verso: quick sketch of the same drawing, though it is just of the moose being airlifted out by the helicopter, with the mountains below.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25.3 x 17.7 cm

Description: Quick sketch of a helicopter airlifting a group of animals out of the mountains. There is a mountain range below them, and birds flying around. verso: quick sketch of the same drawing, though it is just of the moose being airlifted out by the helicopter, with the mountains below.

Subject: Christmas card; helicopter; rescue; stretcher; birds; squirrel; moose; deer; bear; rabbit; rope; mountains; mountain range

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.790

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Peter and Catharine Whyte Colour Transparencies

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 205, 35mm, colour transparencies. Transparencies pertain to Waterton Park, Red Rock Canyon (Waterton), Cameron Lake, Bert and Alma Newbury at Lake Louise, Peter painting at Columbia Icefield, Banff Administration building during Banff Indian Days, Penhold Air Show, scuba divers at …

Date Range: 1961

Reference Code: V683 / III / B / NS - 4687 to 4892

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / B : Peter and Catharine Whyte Transparencies Sub Series

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / B / NS - 4687 to 4892

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

Date Range: 1961

Physical Description: Transparencies: 205 transparencies, 35mm, colour --

Scope & Content: File consists of 205, 35mm, colour transparencies. Transparencies pertain to Waterton Park, Red Rock Canyon (Waterton), Cameron Lake, Bert and Alma Newbury at Lake Louise, Peter painting at Columbia Icefield, Banff Administration building during Banff Indian Days, Penhold Air Show, scuba divers at Moraine Lake, Kootenay Plains, Mount Temple, Field, Mount Norquay Chairlift, Mountain sheep, Town of Banff from Sulphur Mountain, the Whyte home, Vermilion Lakes, Lake Louise, and Frances Roddy.