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Klosters, Switzerland

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.003

Description: Colour: blue. A fence partly hidden by snow runs across the shadowed embankment half way up the picture. A row of brown buildings goes across the upper part. The forest and mountain peaks can be seen in the upper left corners.The sun comes from the right highlighting the areas not shadowed by the h…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Klosters, Switzerland

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue. A fence partly hidden by snow runs across the shadowed embankment half way up the picture. A row of brown buildings goes across the upper part. The forest and mountain peaks can be seen in the upper left corners.The sun comes from the right highlighting the areas not shadowed by the house.

Subject: landscape; mountain; winter; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.003

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Elizabeth Parker Hut, Contentment Meadows, Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.078

Description: Colour: green, purple. In the foreground is green grass and two boulders in the lower right corner. Trees fill the middle ground and right of center are three cabins. The mountains rise up behind the trees. There's a patch of blue sky in the upper left corner and a little right of center at the top.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Elizabeth Parker Hut, Contentment Meadows, Lake O'Hara

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.4 cm

Description: Colour: green, purple. In the foreground is green grass and two boulders in the lower right corner. Trees fill the middle ground and right of center are three cabins. The mountains rise up behind the trees. There's a patch of blue sky in the upper left corner and a little right of center at the top.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; architecture; rural; camp

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.078

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Norway

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

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.307

Description: White patch of snow lrc to centre with a grey rock in the middle of it, water (ice) (blue) llc and extends across lower quarter of painting, large brown (rock) centre with a water-fall to left, snow covered mountains behind and larger mountain also snow covered sweeps upwards to small area of blue …

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

Title: Norway

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: White patch of snow lrc to centre with a grey rock in the middle of it, water (ice) (blue) llc and extends across lower quarter of painting, large brown (rock) centre with a water-fall to left, snow covered mountains behind and larger mountain also snow covered sweeps upwards to small area of blue sky top centre.

Subject: landscape; mountain; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.307

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Norway

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

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.324

Description: Two structures in foreground, the one on the right has two chimneys and a green roof and a (log) leaned up against one side, the structure on the left has two trees to it's left, behind which is a large blue-green mountain brc four trees, light blue-green mountain range on the right, white and grey…

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

Title: Norway

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Two structures in foreground, the one on the right has two chimneys and a green roof and a (log) leaned up against one side, the structure on the left has two trees to it's left, behind which is a large blue-green mountain brc four trees, light blue-green mountain range on the right, white and grey clouds in a blue sky.

Subject: landscape; mountain; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.324

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Lake McArthur

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.253

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake McArthur

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.1 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.253

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Above Geiranger Fjord, Norway

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.261

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Above Geiranger Fjord, Norway

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.2 x 34.7 cm

Subject: landscape; mountain; camp

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.261

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Andalsnes, Norway

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.263

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Andalsnes, Norway

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.2 x 34.8 cm

Subject: landscape; Norway; mountain; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.263

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Skiers, Deception Pass

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.395

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Skiers, Deception Pass

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; snow; skiers

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.395

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

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Alpine Club Cabin, Assiniboine

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.061

Description: Colour: blue. A snow scene. Two trees stand center and left reaching to the top of the picture. Another two trees grow on the right side. Between these is a snow covered log cabin. Trees can be seen vaguely in the distance. The sky behind is warm blue and fills the upper third.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Alpine Club Cabin, Assiniboine

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue. A snow scene. Two trees stand center and left reaching to the top of the picture. Another two trees grow on the right side. Between these is a snow covered log cabin. Trees can be seen vaguely in the distance. The sky behind is warm blue and fills the upper third.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; winter; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.061

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

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Approaching Storm, Assiniboine

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.063

Description: Colour: greys, green, yellow. The foreground is green ground with a yellow larch at the right side and two dead tree stumps at the left side. The background is grey mountain sides and grey sky.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Approaching Storm, Assiniboine

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: greys, green, yellow. The foreground is green ground with a yellow larch at the right side and two dead tree stumps at the left side. The background is grey mountain sides and grey sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.063

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

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Ike Mills Bringing the Skoki Stove

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.032

Description: Colour: brown, blue, white. A team of seven dogs pulls a sled with a stove on it and a driver behind wearing snow shoes, coat and hat, brandishes a whip. It is moving to the right across white snow. The sky is blue and comes down to meet a white mountain peak of snow left of center in the upper hal…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Ike Mills Bringing the Skoki Stove

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 45.6 x 78.6 cm

Description: Colour: brown, blue, white. A team of seven dogs pulls a sled with a stove on it and a driver behind wearing snow shoes, coat and hat, brandishes a whip. It is moving to the right across white snow. The sky is blue and comes down to meet a white mountain peak of snow left of center in the upper half. Pete painted this to go over Ike's fireplace, where it hung for 30 years.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; transportation; figure, male; animal; dog; Ike Mills

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.032

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Mount Assiniboine

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.064

Description: Colour: purple blue, brown. Autumn grass, water and a far shore of evergreen and lach fill the lower half. Beyond, a mountain face rises up to central peak and another right of center in the distance. Sky has a few clouds.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mount Assiniboine

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: purple blue, brown. Autumn grass, water and a far shore of evergreen and lach fill the lower half. Beyond, a mountain face rises up to central peak and another right of center in the distance. Sky has a few clouds.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.064

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

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Cathedral Mountain, Lake O'Hara from Opabin

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.070

Description: Colour: blue, green, yellow. Looking down from a rocky perch, there are two yellow larch trees oon the left side and three evergreens and a dead tree on the right side. In the lower center is the lake. Mountains rise up from it to the right and into the distance left of center. Sky is grey storm cl…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain, Lake O'Hara from Opabin

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green, yellow. Looking down from a rocky perch, there are two yellow larch trees oon the left side and three evergreens and a dead tree on the right side. In the lower center is the lake. Mountains rise up from it to the right and into the distance left of center. Sky is grey storm clouds with some blue.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.070

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Mount Assiniboine in September Snow

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.060

Description: Colour: blue. Snow in the foreground. Seven snow laden evergreens in the middle ground with four bare larch trees on the right side. In the background are two peaks - one to each side - a cloud sits in the saddle between them. Blue sky beyond is to the right.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mount Assiniboine in September Snow

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.2 cm

Description: Colour: blue. Snow in the foreground. Seven snow laden evergreens in the middle ground with four bare larch trees on the right side. In the background are two peaks - one to each side - a cloud sits in the saddle between them. Blue sky beyond is to the right.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.060

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

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Near Assiniboine

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

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.135

Description: A big stone fence is in the immediate foreground. The rocky formations in the distance are displayed in soft, cool greyish blue tones. The mellow colours contrast so nicely with the yellow leaved trees in the foreground. A blue sky whispen with white clouds is visible beyond the mountains.

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

Title: Near Assiniboine

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: A big stone fence is in the immediate foreground. The rocky formations in the distance are displayed in soft, cool greyish blue tones. The mellow colours contrast so nicely with the yellow leaved trees in the foreground. A blue sky whispen with white clouds is visible beyond the mountains.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.135

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

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Mount Assiniboine

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

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.128

Description: Mt. Assiniboine stands erect in the distance. The slopes in front of it weave their way into the foreground. Lake Assiniboine can be seen in front. The immediate foreground depicts a yellow ochre shoreline.

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

Title: Mount Assiniboine

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Mt. Assiniboine stands erect in the distance. The slopes in front of it weave their way into the foreground. Lake Assiniboine can be seen in front. The immediate foreground depicts a yellow ochre shoreline.