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Untitled [Mountains]

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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.

Subject: abstract; landscape; mountains

Credit: Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2003

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.17

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Small lake in Mountains

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1978

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.13

Description: A pencil drawing of a small lake in the foreground, the immediate foreground is marshy and some trees, this surrounds the lake; mountains in background; a few clouds indicated. A small brass plaque with the drawing reads: To Lillian Gest In Appreciation The Lake O'Hara Trails Club 1979.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Small lake in Mountains

Date: 1978

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 22.5; 26.7 x 26.7; 32.1 cm

Description: A pencil drawing of a small lake in the foreground, the immediate foreground is marshy and some trees, this surrounds the lake; mountains in background; a few clouds indicated. A small brass plaque with the drawing reads: To Lillian Gest In Appreciation The Lake O'Hara Trails Club 1979.

Subject: landscape; mountains; lake

Credit: Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1986

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.13

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Rocks, Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1961

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.011

Description: Colour: grey, green, brown, blue, white. Foreground is grey and brown slabs of rock. At the right side is a dark rock cliff and behind a grey mountain peak.Clouds come down in swirls of white revealing two patches of clear blue.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Rocks, Lake O'Hara

Date: 1961

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 76.5 x 63.5 cm

Description: Colour: grey, green, brown, blue, white. Foreground is grey and brown slabs of rock. At the right side is a dark rock cliff and behind a grey mountain peak.Clouds come down in swirls of white revealing two patches of clear blue.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.011

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

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Going to the Sundance

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.021

Description: Colour: green, blue, black, white. A wagon pulled by horses, a rider and horse and aother wagon move from left to right on a trail through green prairie grass. The blue sky above has three large clouds.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Going to the Sundance

Date: 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 91.8 x 181.2 cm

Description: Colour: green, blue, black, white. A wagon pulled by horses, a rider and horse and aother wagon move from left to right on a trail through green prairie grass. The blue sky above has three large clouds.

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.021

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The Yukon River, Dawson City

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.100

Description: Colour: green, purple, red, yellow. The lower canvas is a town. Beyond that is a pale green river which goes across, upright and then left a bit. On either side as it goes into the distance are green hills becoming purple in the distance. A grey yellow sky fills the upper area.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: The Yukon River, Dawson City

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: green, purple, red, yellow. The lower canvas is a town. Beyond that is a pale green river which goes across, upright and then left a bit. On either side as it goes into the distance are green hills becoming purple in the distance. A grey yellow sky fills the upper area.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; river; architecture; urban

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.100

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

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Funeral of Chief David Bearspaw

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.033

Description: Colour: multi colours on white. In the lower left corner is the backside of a sled pulled by two horses. There are figures sitting in the sled and walking beside it, also two dogs. Many figures are making their way from the right to the left of centre where there is a huge circle of figures. Ac…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Funeral of Chief David Bearspaw

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 90.5 x 100.8 cm

Description: Colour: multi colours on white. In the lower left corner is the backside of a sled pulled by two horses. There are figures sitting in the sled and walking beside it, also two dogs. Many figures are making their way from the right to the left of centre where there is a huge circle of figures. Across the right side in front of a fence is a row of eleven sleds. The hills beyond meet the lake up centre and the far shore of blue mountains two thirds up. The sky is streaked grey.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; transportation; figure; group; religious

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.033

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Burial of Chief David Bearspaw

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.030

Description: Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Burial of Chief David Bearspaw

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 61.8 x 74.5 cm

Description: Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; figure; group; religious; funeral; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.030

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Lake Louise, Mount Lefroy and Mount Victoria

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.079

Description: Colour: white, blue, brown. The lower edge is rocks with a tree standing on the left side and a dead bush on the right. The lake is frozen to a third the way up. Snow and treed mountain slopes rise up beyond. The glacier can be seen on the right. A patch of blue sky is at the upper edge in the cent…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake Louise, Mount Lefroy and Mount Victoria

Date: 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: white, blue, brown. The lower edge is rocks with a tree standing on the left side and a dead bush on the right. The lake is frozen to a third the way up. Snow and treed mountain slopes rise up beyond. The glacier can be seen on the right. A patch of blue sky is at the upper edge in the center.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.079

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

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Season’s Greetings Catharine and Peter

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

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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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

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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Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1954

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.199

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1954

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake, Bow Lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.199

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Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1954

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.424

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake

Date: 1954

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.1 x 30.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.424

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Season’s Greetings Peter and Catharine

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1954

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.04.36

Description: On the bottom half of the paper there is a final printed version of the 1954 Christmas card. Peter and Catharine are sitting on stools working on paintings at their easels. They are painting a mountain and lake landscape that is in front of them. There is a group of animals sitting around them watc…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Season’s Greetings Peter and Catharine

Date: 1954

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 16.2 cm

Description: On the bottom half of the paper there is a final printed version of the 1954 Christmas card. Peter and Catharine are sitting on stools working on paintings at their easels. They are painting a mountain and lake landscape that is in front of them. There is a group of animals sitting around them watching them paint. Below the print it says “SEASON’S GREETINGS 1954 PETER AND CATHARINE”.verso: multiple watercolour paint swatches on the back.