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Lake McArthur and Mount Biddle

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.130

Description: Colour: blue, purple, green, cream. The bottom edge is blue water. Brown and green shore gives way to snow patch which is partly shadowed. In the upper half is purple mountain rock face. Sky in the upper right corner is cloudless.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake McArthur and Mount Biddle

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 10.75 x 8.5 cm

Description: Colour: blue, purple, green, cream. The bottom edge is blue water. Brown and green shore gives way to snow patch which is partly shadowed. In the upper half is purple mountain rock face. Sky in the upper right corner is cloudless.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; Mount Biddle; lake; Lake McArthur

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.130

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Goat Mountain, Spray Valley

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.131

Description: Colour: blue, green, grey. At the lower left corner is a purple rock slope with three short trees on it. Behind on either side are green shores sloping down to a snowy river which goes from the lower right corner to the center. In the upper third in the distance are blue mountains three peaks and b…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Goat Mountain, Spray Valley

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.5 x 27.7 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green, grey. At the lower left corner is a purple rock slope with three short trees on it. Behind on either side are green shores sloping down to a snowy river which goes from the lower right corner to the center. In the upper third in the distance are blue mountains three peaks and blue sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; Goat Mountain; valley; Spray

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.131

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

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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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Mount Saskatchewan from Castleguard Meadows

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.281

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mount Saskatchewan from Castleguard Meadows

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.6 x 27.8 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.281

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Mount Rundle

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.47

Description: Gold, red and green bank with evergreens to the left foreground. Green and blue lake with moonlight shining on it mid foreground reaching back to the treed shoreline. On the right is the dark flank of Sulphur Mountain and midcentre and left are dominated by moonlit Mount Rundle. The sky is bright w…

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Mount Rundle

Date: 1929

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 18.6 x 22.6 cm

Description: Gold, red and green bank with evergreens to the left foreground. Green and blue lake with moonlight shining on it mid foreground reaching back to the treed shoreline. On the right is the dark flank of Sulphur Mountain and midcentre and left are dominated by moonlit Mount Rundle. The sky is bright with a full moon.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; mountain

Credit: Gift of Audrey Campbell, Banff, 1991

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.47

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Teepee

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.358

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Teepee

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.7 x 26.8 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; structure, teepee

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.358

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Yoho Valley

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.384

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Yoho Valley

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.2 x 27.8 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.384

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Yoho Valley

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.385

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Yoho Valley

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.6 x 27.9 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.385

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Yoho Valley

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.386

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Yoho Valley

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.5 x 27.7 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.386

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Park Range

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.539

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Park Range

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.2 x 27.7 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.539

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Castleguard Meadows

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.594

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Castleguard Meadows

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 27.8 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; camp; tent; figure; male

Credit: Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.594

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Teepee

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.071

Description: Oil painting of a beige and brown tepee and tall dark green pine tree with more smaller same-coloured trees in the background. Vague shapes behind those could either be mountains or clouds done in shades of blue and seafoam green. Signed “Peter Whyte -29” in bottom right corner.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Teepee

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 14.3 x 13.2 cm

Description: Oil painting of a beige and brown tepee and tall dark green pine tree with more smaller same-coloured trees in the background. Vague shapes behind those could either be mountains or clouds done in shades of blue and seafoam green. Signed “Peter Whyte -29” in bottom right corner.

Subject: teepee; landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; forest; camp

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.071

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.291

Description: An ink drawing of two figures in the foreground with mountaisn in the background. A figure of a boy appears to be throwing something into a lake. A female figure on the right has her left arm out and is pointing at the boy. She wears a long skirt and a hat with a feather in it. There is a tree fram…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1929

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 30.5 x 23.0 cm

Description: An ink drawing of two figures in the foreground with mountaisn in the background. A figure of a boy appears to be throwing something into a lake. A female figure on the right has her left arm out and is pointing at the boy. She wears a long skirt and a hat with a feather in it. There is a tree framing the left side of the image. There is a hand drawn frame around the drawing.[brc, outside the hand-drawn frame]: GEORGIE, STOP THROWING STONES RIGHT THIS INSTANT OR BE BREAKING SOMETHING AROUND HERE -[blc, in cursive] Peter Whyte -29

Subject: boy; woman; lake; mountain

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.291

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Bow Glacier

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.04

Description: Colour: blue, green. The lower half is green grass with evergreens along the shore of the lake which appears at left of center. The upper half is blue and purple and white mountains. Sky goes along the top.

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Bow Glacier

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 29.0 x 40.0 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green. The lower half is green grass with evergreens along the shore of the lake which appears at left of center. The upper half is blue and purple and white mountains. Sky goes along the top.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Rocky Mountains; glacier; Bow Glacier

Credit: Gift of Mary Hallock, Fort St. James, 1981

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.04

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

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Umagaesh, from the series Ten Views of Mount Fuji

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Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)

Date: 1928

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: YoH.04.01

Description: Colour: charcoal grey, brown, purple. A dark slope slanting down from left to right. Has figures and horses dispersed across the bottom and up the left side. It fills the lower two thirds Behind and beyond is a mountain peak and pink clouded blue sky.

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Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)

Title: Umagaesh, from the series Ten Views of Mount Fuji

Date: 1928

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 37.4 x 24.7 cm

Description: Colour: charcoal grey, brown, purple. A dark slope slanting down from left to right. Has figures and horses dispersed across the bottom and up the left side. It fills the lower two thirds Behind and beyond is a mountain peak and pink clouded blue sky.

Subject: landscape; mountain; figure; group; animal; horse

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971

Catalogue Number: YoH.04.01

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Fujiyama - Early Morning

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Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)

Date: 1928

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: YoH.04.06

Description: Colour: mauve grey, orange. Looking down from a great height, on cloud cover over distant mountains. A few peaks can be seen. In the lower corner is a rock cliff with eleven climbers on it. The early morning light is bursting onto the horizon at the top of the picture.

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Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)

Title: Fujiyama - Early Morning

Date: 1928

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 24.8 x 37.5 cm

Description: Colour: mauve grey, orange. Looking down from a great height, on cloud cover over distant mountains. A few peaks can be seen. In the lower corner is a rock cliff with eleven climbers on it. The early morning light is bursting onto the horizon at the top of the picture.

Subject: skyscape; mountain; figure; group

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971

Catalogue Number: YoH.04.06

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Danger

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

Date: 1928

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.04.30

Description: A horse is standing right center on a hill, he stands alert, tail up, looking to his left. two other horses are lightly sketched in just over the hill. A small tree is on the hill, left center. The background shows a faint line of mountains.

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

Title: Danger

Date: 1928

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 12.5 x 17.6 cm

Description: A horse is standing right center on a hill, he stands alert, tail up, looking to his left. two other horses are lightly sketched in just over the hill. A small tree is on the hill, left center. The background shows a faint line of mountains.

Subject: landscape; mountain; animal; horse

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

Catalogue Number: BeC.04.30

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Monarch of the Past

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

Date: 1928

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.04.31

Description: A large bull bison stands center left, facing to the right, looking at a skull and rib bones of a buffalo. A long line of bison are sketched going over the hill and into the distance. The bottom half of the picture is a grassy knoll. A faint line of mountain in the background.

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

Title: Monarch of the Past

Date: 1928

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 12.5 x 17.6 cm

Description: A large bull bison stands center left, facing to the right, looking at a skull and rib bones of a buffalo. A long line of bison are sketched going over the hill and into the distance. The bottom half of the picture is a grassy knoll. A faint line of mountain in the background.