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Fire Engine, Dawson City
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.097
- Date
- 1956
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.097
- Description
- Colour: blue, orange red. Central image is a four wheeled vehicle with a tank and a long black handled pump. It stands in green grass. Behind is a large building: the back part of which is yellow, the front purple brown. A few figures can be seen by the door at the left side. Above are telegraph po…
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- Title
- Fire Engine, Dawson City
- Date
- 1956
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 25.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, orange red. Central image is a four wheeled vehicle with a tank and a long black handled pump. It stands in green grass. Behind is a large building: the back part of which is yellow, the front purple brown. A few figures can be seen by the door at the left side. Above are telegraph poles and blue sky.
- Subject
- transportation
- architecture
- urban
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.097
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The Yukon River, Dawson City
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.100
- 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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- 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.
- 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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Bank in Dawson City
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.101
- Date
- 1956
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.101
- Description
- Colour: blue, black, green, ochre. A road goes up from the lower center towards the right. On the right side of the road are five telegraph poles receding into the distance. On the left side are buildings. The front one is white and built of stone or brick. In the background is a hillside which goe…
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- Title
- Bank in Dawson City
- Date
- 1956
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 25.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, black, green, ochre. A road goes up from the lower center towards the right. On the right side of the road are five telegraph poles receding into the distance. On the left side are buildings. The front one is white and built of stone or brick. In the background is a hillside which goes up at an angle from the left to he upper right. Clear blue sky fills in the rest.
- Subject
- architecture
- urban
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.101
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Lake Louise, Fall
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- Date
- 1950 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.116
- Description
- Colour: light blue, brown, black. The lower area is lake. From the center on each side rise black mountain slopes. The blue glacier sits in the middle. Above that are brown mountain slopes and blue tops. Some sky visible in te upper left and along the edge.
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- Title
- Lake Louise, Fall
- Date
- 1950 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 25.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: light blue, brown, black. The lower area is lake. From the center on each side rise black mountain slopes. The blue glacier sits in the middle. Above that are brown mountain slopes and blue tops. Some sky visible in te upper left and along the edge.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- glacier
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.116
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Lake Louise, Mount Lefroy and Mount Victoria
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- 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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- 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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Going to the Sundance
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.021
- 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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.021
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Funeral of Chief David Bearspaw
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- 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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.033
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Burial of Chief David Bearspaw
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.030
- 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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.030
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On the Way to Indian Days
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- Date
- 1952 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.020
- Description
- Colour: blue, green, yellow, black. The lower two thirds is long yellow and green grass. Where the blue sky meets the grass there is a caravan of horses and wagons. Seven horses and riders on the left side moving right and one wagon center and one wagon right pulled by two horses each and piled hig…
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- Title
- On the Way to Indian Days
- Date
- 1952 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 51.1 x 150.8 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, green, yellow, black. The lower two thirds is long yellow and green grass. Where the blue sky meets the grass there is a caravan of horses and wagons. Seven horses and riders on the left side moving right and one wagon center and one wagon right pulled by two horses each and piled high with baggage and people. At the very front on the right side runs a little black dog.
- Subject
- landscape
- figure
- group
- transportation
- animal
- horse
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.020
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Mount Lefroy from Beehive
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.118
- Date
- 1955 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.118
- Description
- Colour: pale blue, yellow, green. A single peak can be seen in the distance between two larch trees in the foreground. On the right side is a shorter larch tree and a mountain ridge in he distance.
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- Title
- Mount Lefroy from Beehive
- Date
- 1955 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 25.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: pale blue, yellow, green. A single peak can be seen in the distance between two larch trees in the foreground. On the right side is a shorter larch tree and a mountain ridge in he distance.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- winter
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.118
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.110
- Description
- Colour: yellow, green. Across the bottom is grass, then a bank of yellow aspens across the main part of the picture. Above them, a hill can be seen and snowy peaks rise up behind into grey clouded sky.
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- Title
- Aspens
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 25.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: yellow, green. Across the bottom is grass, then a bank of yellow aspens across the main part of the picture. Above them, a hill can be seen and snowy peaks rise up behind into grey clouded sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.110
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- Date
- 1955
- Medium
- graphite on illustration board
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.309
- Description
- Pencil sketch for Christmas card. Nine animals sitting on a hill looking down into a valley, a circle of teepees in the valley, mountains in distance.[across bottom] Season’s Greetings 1955 Catharine and Peterverso in pencil: vertical and horizontal rectangles
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1955
- Medium
- graphite on illustration board
- Dimensions
- 23.0 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- Pencil sketch for Christmas card. Nine animals sitting on a hill looking down into a valley, a circle of teepees in the valley, mountains in distance.[across bottom] Season’s Greetings 1955 Catharine and Peterverso in pencil: vertical and horizontal rectangles
- Subject
- sketch
- cartoon
- Christmas card
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.309
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- Date
- 1958 – 1960
- Medium
- graphite; ink; on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.09
- Description
- A flip book-style sketchbook with thick cardstock covers bound with brown fabric tape belonging to Peter Whyte. A decorative coat of arms with “Carnet, Croquis” is printed in black ink in the top left corner of the front cover and a “Made in France” sticker is adhered to the back cover on the fabri…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1958 – 1960
- Medium
- graphite; ink; on paper
- Dimensions
- 0.8 x 12.3 x 19.3 cm
- Description
- A flip book-style sketchbook with thick cardstock covers bound with brown fabric tape belonging to Peter Whyte. A decorative coat of arms with “Carnet, Croquis” is printed in black ink in the top left corner of the front cover and a “Made in France” sticker is adhered to the back cover on the fabric tape. Throughout the front and back covers are very faint pencil marks that appear to be math equations. Sketches pertain to boats [there are also 2 photograph prints of boat sketches also done by Peter inserted at the back of the book], figures [mostly First Nations people], a crude map of “Rivers Manitoba,” a hill with buildings and the inscription “Gaspe, June-30-58,” and birds.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.09
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- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Medium
- on paper; card;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.963
- Description
- A handmade portfolio with “DRAWINGS” written in black ink across the cover underneath a rectangular watercolour painting of a small building on a lake shore with trees and hills in the background, signed “P.W.” in bottom right corner. The painting is bordered in black ink. The pieces of the portfol…
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- Title
- Drawings
- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Medium
- on paper; card;
- Dimensions
- 33.5 x 25.8 cm
- Description
- A handmade portfolio with “DRAWINGS” written in black ink across the cover underneath a rectangular watercolour painting of a small building on a lake shore with trees and hills in the background, signed “P.W.” in bottom right corner. The painting is bordered in black ink. The pieces of the portfolio are made of green-grey paper wrapped around a piece of cardstock, sealed on the inside with a decorative page consisting of hand-drawn green and yellow hexagons with simple floral designs inside them. The covers are held together with a length of red cord wound through three holes punched along one edge.
- Subject
- art supplies
- paintings
- drawings
- Peter Whyte;
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.963
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- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Medium
- on paper; card;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.964
- Description
- A handmade portfolio with “ART” written in black ink across the cover underneath a rectangular watercolour painting of a sailboat with pink and green rocks on the right-hand edge, black hills in the background, and “Lila” signed in the bottom left corner. The painting is bordered in black ink. The …
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- Title
- Art
- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Medium
- on paper; card;
- Dimensions
- 33.5 x 25.8 cm
- Description
- A handmade portfolio with “ART” written in black ink across the cover underneath a rectangular watercolour painting of a sailboat with pink and green rocks on the right-hand edge, black hills in the background, and “Lila” signed in the bottom left corner. The painting is bordered in black ink. The pieces of the portfolio are made of green-grey paper wrapped around a piece of cardstock, sealed on the inside with a decorative page consisting of hand-drawn black and yellow hexagons with simple floral designs inside them. The covers are held together with a length of red cord wound through three holes punched along one edge. There is an additional hole punched in the middle of the open edge.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.964
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- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.965
- Description
- A graphite pencil drawing of several cars during a race. In the center of the page is a car numbered “20” with two people visible in the open top car that has an exhaust cloud and the words “BANG, BOOM” written beside it. Ranged around this central car are five others on the track. Along the left s…
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- Title
- An Auto Race
- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 15.1 cm
- Description
- A graphite pencil drawing of several cars during a race. In the center of the page is a car numbered “20” with two people visible in the open top car that has an exhaust cloud and the words “BANG, BOOM” written beside it. Ranged around this central car are five others on the track. Along the left side is what appears to be an upside-down car in what is possibly the viewer stands.
- Subject
- drawing
- children
- cars
- car race
- Peter Whyte;
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.965
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- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.966
- Description
- A graphite pencil drawing of a man riding a motorcycle in profile. The figure is set back almost directly over the real wheel and is wearing tall boots, pale pants, a long-sleeve jacket, gloves, a kind of mask with an eye hole cut out, and a backwards cap. Light is indicated as coming out of a head…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Dimensions
- 15.1 x 22.8 cm
- Description
- A graphite pencil drawing of a man riding a motorcycle in profile. The figure is set back almost directly over the real wheel and is wearing tall boots, pale pants, a long-sleeve jacket, gloves, a kind of mask with an eye hole cut out, and a backwards cap. Light is indicated as coming out of a headlight and speed/dust clouds are coming out from under the rear wheel.
- Subject
- drawing
- children
- motorcycle
- Peter Whyte;
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.966
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- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.10
- Description
- Coverless sketchbook with stapled papers. Sketches done by a young Peter Whyte depict planes, cars, tanks, animals, buildings, people [including President Wilson in profile], an outline of South America, numbers [math equations of some sort], and a poem [”It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” by Edmund Se…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- Coverless sketchbook with stapled papers. Sketches done by a young Peter Whyte depict planes, cars, tanks, animals, buildings, people [including President Wilson in profile], an outline of South America, numbers [math equations of some sort], and a poem [”It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” by Edmund Sears].
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.10
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- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour; on paper;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.11
- Description
- Small handmade sketchbook with pink flowers and green leaves on a branch painted on the cover, bordered on the top and bottom by horizontal black bars and clusters of four pink dots, repeated. “Pete White” is written in faint pencil in the top left corner. A piece of yellow thread holds the book to…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour; on paper;
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 11.3 cm
- Description
- Small handmade sketchbook with pink flowers and green leaves on a branch painted on the cover, bordered on the top and bottom by horizontal black bars and clusters of four pink dots, repeated. “Pete White” is written in faint pencil in the top left corner. A piece of yellow thread holds the book together. Contents include birds, plants, simple landscapes, and flowers.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.11
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- Date
- 1916 – 1916
- Medium
- graphite; pastel; on paper;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.12
- Description
- Manufactured sketchbook for pastels made up of coloured papers interleaved with tissue paper. The front cover reads “REEVES’ GREYHOUND PASTEL BOOK, Pete White [written cursive in black ink], No. 4” with the manufacturer details at the bottom and a decorative border around the it all. Details about …
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1916 – 1916
- Medium
- graphite; pastel; on paper;
- Dimensions
- 27.1 x 18.3 cm
- Description
- Manufactured sketchbook for pastels made up of coloured papers interleaved with tissue paper. The front cover reads “REEVES’ GREYHOUND PASTEL BOOK, Pete White [written cursive in black ink], No. 4” with the manufacturer details at the bottom and a decorative border around the it all. Details about Reeves’ products is printed on the back. Contents include buckets, flowers in various containers, flowers on their own, fruit, landscapes, Japanese lanterns & umbrellas, flags, and birds. Most drawings are dated.
- Subject
- drawing
- animals
- Japan
- children
- Peter Whyte;
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.12
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