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- Doris Cormie 2
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Icefield Series – B
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmib.03.02
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- charcoal; chalk on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.03.02
- Description
- Mountain dominates almost full frame, icefield centred top, foreground dark with hint of colours green and brown. Sky blue with tinge of green.
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- Title
- Icefield Series – B
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- charcoal; chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- 52.5 x 72.4 cm
- Description
- Mountain dominates almost full frame, icefield centred top, foreground dark with hint of colours green and brown. Sky blue with tinge of green.
- Credit
- Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 1994
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.03.02
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Icefield Series – A
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmib.03.01
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- charcoal; chalk on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.03.01
- Description
- Icefield fans out from centre near top to the foreground. Mountain frames the foreground and both sides with shades of green, yellow and brown. Blue sky has long dark streaks.
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- Title
- Icefield Series – A
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- charcoal; chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- 52.5 x 72.4 cm
- Description
- Icefield fans out from centre near top to the foreground. Mountain frames the foreground and both sides with shades of green, yellow and brown. Blue sky has long dark streaks.
- Credit
- Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 1994
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.03.01
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Icefield Series - C
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmib.03.03
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- charcoal; chalk on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.03.03
- Description
- The mountain dominates to almost top of picture. Icefield at top right and down to right foreground. Mountain is mostly black with contours of light and dark with shades of green, brown and yellow. The sky is lightly streaked blue.
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- Title
- Icefield Series - C
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- charcoal; chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- 52.5 x 72.5 cm
- Description
- The mountain dominates to almost top of picture. Icefield at top right and down to right foreground. Mountain is mostly black with contours of light and dark with shades of green, brown and yellow. The sky is lightly streaked blue.
- Credit
- Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 1994
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.03.03
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Mountain Scene
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmip.03.02
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- oil pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiP.03.02
- Description
- Bottom left edge to past centre is the top edge of evergreen trees, behind that is a mountain range spanning the bottom third from edge to edge, the rest of the drawing is a cloudy sky, the mountains and clouds are blue and white
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- Title
- Mountain Scene
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- oil pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 42.8 x 53.0 cm
- Description
- Bottom left edge to past centre is the top edge of evergreen trees, behind that is a mountain range spanning the bottom third from edge to edge, the rest of the drawing is a cloudy sky, the mountains and clouds are blue and white
- Credit
- Gift of Phil Michaud, Banff, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- MiP.03.02
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View of Assiniboine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmtm.03.01
- Date
- 1988
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MtM.03.01
- Description
- A line drawing; Mount Assiniboine dominates centre left; the sky is tinged with orangel foreground has mountain slopes with grasses and flowers in the foreground; colour highlights are added with pastel and a blue watercolour wash;
- Title
- View of Assiniboine
- Date
- 1988
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- A line drawing; Mount Assiniboine dominates centre left; the sky is tinged with orangel foreground has mountain slopes with grasses and flowers in the foreground; colour highlights are added with pastel and a blue watercolour wash;
- Credit
- Purchased from Sunshine Village, Banff, 1989
- Catalogue Number
- MtM.03.01
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- Date
- 1983
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- AsH.03.01
- Description
- Portrait of Jimmy Simpson.
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- Title
- Jimmy Simpson
- Date
- 1983
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 65.0 x 50.0 cm
- Description
- Portrait of Jimmy Simpson.
- Subject
- characters
- Jimmy Simpson
- portrait
- male
- Credit
- Gift of G. H. W Ashley, Salmon Arm, 1992
- Catalogue Number
- AsH.03.01
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Banff Revisited IV
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactris.03.01
- Artist
- Sylvia Richman
- Date
- 1982
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RiS.03.01
- Description
- Mountain shapes in foreground, blue/purple, reds, green, brown, black outlines, top half of picture is multicoloured - red left center with yellows, browns and greens. Top right corner is very muted.
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- Artist
- Sylvia Richman
- Title
- Banff Revisited IV
- Date
- 1982
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 18.3 cm
- Description
- Mountain shapes in foreground, blue/purple, reds, green, brown, black outlines, top half of picture is multicoloured - red left center with yellows, browns and greens. Top right corner is very muted.
- Credit
- Gift of Sylvia Richman, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- RiS.03.01
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Untitled [Jimmy Simpson]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactunk.03.16
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.03.16
- Description
- Pastel portrait of Jimmy Simpson on pale green papaer. He wears a wide-brimmed, brown hat, yellow shirt, and blue tie.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled [Jimmy Simpson]
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Description
- Pastel portrait of Jimmy Simpson on pale green papaer. He wears a wide-brimmed, brown hat, yellow shirt, and blue tie.
- Subject
- portrait
- male
- Jimmy Simpson
- Credit
- Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.03.16
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Untitled (First Nations child)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactchg.03.04
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ChG.03.04
- Description
- A portrait of a young Indigenous girl. It shows head and neck only, black hair in a braids; one braid hanging down the front on viewer’s right. She has dark skin, very pink cheeks and lips and is wearing a pink and blue top. Signed, between the end of the braid and mat, viewer’s right, printed with…
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- Title
- Untitled (First Nations child)
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.0 x 14.2 cm
- Description
- A portrait of a young Indigenous girl. It shows head and neck only, black hair in a braids; one braid hanging down the front on viewer’s right. She has dark skin, very pink cheeks and lips and is wearing a pink and blue top. Signed, between the end of the braid and mat, viewer’s right, printed with brown pastel “Christoffersen”.
- Subject
- portrait
- child
- girl
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Margaret Reid (Estate), 2008
- Catalogue Number
- ChG.03.04
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Untitled (First Nations child)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactchg.03.05
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ChG.03.05
- Description
- A pastel portrait from chest upwards, of a very young Indigenous boy. He has black hair in short braids tied with red fabric. He is wearing what could be a buckskin jacket/shirt and has two beaded necklaces around his neck: a red and green necklace and a diamond-shaped necklace connected by purple …
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- Title
- Untitled (First Nations child)
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 24.0 x 20.0 cm
- Description
- A pastel portrait from chest upwards, of a very young Indigenous boy. He has black hair in short braids tied with red fabric. He is wearing what could be a buckskin jacket/shirt and has two beaded necklaces around his neck: a red and green necklace and a diamond-shaped necklace connected by purple and red beads. Signed, between the end of the diamond-shaped necklace and mat, viewer’s right, printed with black pastel “Christoffersen”.
- Subject
- portrait
- child
- boy
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Margaret Reid (Estate), 2008
- Catalogue Number
- ChG.03.05
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Mount Rundle from Canmore
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactplj.03.02
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PlJ.03.02
- Description
- General colour: brown, black on grey, minimum of colour in sky. Lower half - mountains. Upper half - clouds and sky. Yellow, white, peach, sand colours on grey.
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- Title
- Mount Rundle from Canmore
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 49.7 x 65.9 cm
- Description
- General colour: brown, black on grey, minimum of colour in sky. Lower half - mountains. Upper half - clouds and sky. Yellow, white, peach, sand colours on grey.
- Credit
- Purchased from Joseph Francis Plaskett, 1972
- Catalogue Number
- PlJ.03.02
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Rocky Mountain Drawing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsir.03.01
- Date
- 1966
- Medium
- graphite; coloured graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.01
- Description
- Pencil sketch of overlapping mountains at centre leading to viewer’s right; a blue pencil crayon has been used to shade a few mountain tops. Artist signature in bottom brhc corner “Sinclair”.Rocky Mountain Drawing is a precursor to Sinclair’s long career in landscape drawing and painting.
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- Title
- Rocky Mountain Drawing
- Date
- 1966
- Medium
- graphite; coloured graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.9 x 29.7 cm
- Description
- Pencil sketch of overlapping mountains at centre leading to viewer’s right; a blue pencil crayon has been used to shade a few mountain tops. Artist signature in bottom brhc corner “Sinclair”.Rocky Mountain Drawing is a precursor to Sinclair’s long career in landscape drawing and painting.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.01
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- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.782
- Description
- Boxed off there is a quick sketch of a Christmas card that was potentially used during 1962. There is a helicopter lifting a group of animals up on a stretcher and flying them out of a mountain range. verso: Another boxed off sketch of the helicopter flying a group of animals out on a stretcher, wi…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.6 x 21.3 cm
- Description
- Boxed off there is a quick sketch of a Christmas card that was potentially used during 1962. There is a helicopter lifting a group of animals up on a stretcher and flying them out of a mountain range. verso: Another boxed off sketch of the helicopter flying a group of animals out on a stretcher, with a mountain range below them. Written by the bottom edge of the paper “Howard O’Hagan. Parks Need Protection - Nove 11 Colonist read Wild America Page 57”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.782
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- Date
- 1959
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.07
- Description
- A head and shoulders portrait of Fred Brewster; an almost full face portrait, ruddy complexion, black hair, moustache, blue eyes; wearing an open necked plaid shirt; highlights behind head and ear to right.
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- Title
- Fred Brewster
- Date
- 1959
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 61.0 x 45.7 cm
- Description
- A head and shoulders portrait of Fred Brewster; an almost full face portrait, ruddy complexion, black hair, moustache, blue eyes; wearing an open necked plaid shirt; highlights behind head and ear to right.
- Subject
- portrait
- portrait, Fred Brewster
- Credit
- Gift of Sonia de Grandmaison, West Vancouver, 1987
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.07
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Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.938
- Date
- 1956
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.938
- Description
- A Christmas card design of a group of vehicles in a convoy travelling down a road to the mountains. The last car is filled with a group of animals, and beside this vehicle there is a post with a bunch of signs pointing to directions to different cities. These signs say “HOMER, FAIRBANKS, EDMONTON, …
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- Title
- Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter
- Date
- 1956
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 18.2 x 28.6 cm
- Description
- A Christmas card design of a group of vehicles in a convoy travelling down a road to the mountains. The last car is filled with a group of animals, and beside this vehicle there is a post with a bunch of signs pointing to directions to different cities. These signs say “HOMER, FAIRBANKS, EDMONTON, DAWSON CITY, BANFF, ANCHORAGE, VALDEZ, WHITEHORSE, FORT ST. JOHN, AND SEWARD”. The licence plate on the last vehicle says “B.N.P. 1956 CANADA”. While below the drawing it says “SEASONS GREETINGS CATHARINE AND PETER”. Around the edges of the drawing it says “6 inches” and “3 3/4”
- Subject
- travel
- driving
- vehicle
- car
- Christmas card
- sign
- mountain
- Rocky Mountain
- animal
- moose
- bird
- bear
- deer
- wolf
- rabbit
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.938
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Season’s Greetings Catharine and Peter
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.936
- Date
- 1955
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.936
- Description
- The 1955 Christmas card design. Peter is standing beside Catharine who is sitting on a tree stump. They are watching a group of animals paint the mountain scene in the background. Below the drawing it says “SEASON’S GREETINGS 1955 CATHARINE AND PETER”verso: ink marks along the left edge
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- Title
- Season’s Greetings Catharine and Peter
- Date
- 1955
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 18.4 x 28.8 cm
- Description
- The 1955 Christmas card design. Peter is standing beside Catharine who is sitting on a tree stump. They are watching a group of animals paint the mountain scene in the background. Below the drawing it says “SEASON’S GREETINGS 1955 CATHARINE AND PETER”verso: ink marks along the left edge
- Subject
- Christmas card
- people
- man
- woman
- animal
- moose
- deer
- bear
- squirrel
- bird
- rabbit
- wolf
- landscape
- mountain
- Rocky Mountains
- painting
- canvas
- brush
- paint
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.936
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- Date
- 1954
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HrB.03.01
- Description
- An abstract pastel drawing of what looks to be the skull of a cow or bison. The skull is surrounded by loosely concentric rings.
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1954
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Description
- An abstract pastel drawing of what looks to be the skull of a cow or bison. The skull is surrounded by loosely concentric rings.
- Credit
- Gift of George K.K. (Tommy) Link, Tucson, USA, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- HrB.03.01
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Season’s Greetings Peter and Catharine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.937
- Date
- 1954
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.937
- Description
- The 1954 Christmas card. Peter and Catharine sit on stools at their easels painting the mountain landscape in front of them. There is a group of animals standing around watching them. Written below the drawing it says “SEASON’S GREETINGS 1954 PETER AND CATHARINE”.
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- Title
- Season’s Greetings Peter and Catharine
- Date
- 1954
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.8 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- The 1954 Christmas card. Peter and Catharine sit on stools at their easels painting the mountain landscape in front of them. There is a group of animals standing around watching them. Written below the drawing it says “SEASON’S GREETINGS 1954 PETER AND CATHARINE”.
- Subject
- people
- man
- woman
- animal
- moose
- rabbit
- wolf
- squirrel
- bird
- bear
- deer
- mountain
- Rocky Mountains
- painting
- pain
- furniture
- stool
- paint
- canvas
- easel
- Christmas card
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.937
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- Date
- 1954
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.952 p
- Description
- Left: blue ink map drawing “300 yds” Right: in pencil person sitting on stool wearing hate holding paintbrush facing away from viewer.Verso: drawings of person holding paintbrush facing away from viewer. Math equations. Type written: “Banff Alberta. Sunday Sept. 19, 1954 Dear Dorothy, How awfully”
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1954
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 16.5 x 25.0 cm
- Description
- Left: blue ink map drawing “300 yds” Right: in pencil person sitting on stool wearing hate holding paintbrush facing away from viewer.Verso: drawings of person holding paintbrush facing away from viewer. Math equations. Type written: “Banff Alberta. Sunday Sept. 19, 1954 Dear Dorothy, How awfully”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.952 p
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Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.713
- Date
- 1951
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.713
- Description
- Detailed sketch for final version of the 1951 Christmas card. Several animals can be seen surrounding Catharine and Peter’s vehicle, there is a tree in the foreground, and two mountains in the background. “SEASONS GREETINS CATHARINE AND PETER” are written on the TL and BL hand side of the drawing, …
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- Title
- Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter
- Date
- 1951
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 18.0 x 27.7 cm
- Description
- Detailed sketch for final version of the 1951 Christmas card. Several animals can be seen surrounding Catharine and Peter’s vehicle, there is a tree in the foreground, and two mountains in the background. “SEASONS GREETINS CATHARINE AND PETER” are written on the TL and BL hand side of the drawing, with Peter’s signature and date in the BRC of the drawing. Some coloured pencil markings in the BRC starting 4.5cm to the left with a circled no. 3 written in pen and 8cm up more coloured pencil. verso: written in coloured pencil “not over 4”x6””, “3 colors Cragg & Canyon Banff”, and “mountain”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.713
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