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Mount Weed, Bow Summit

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

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.242

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

Title: Mount Weed, Bow Summit

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.3 x 30.1 cm

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.242

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Rural Scene, Eastern Canada

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

Date: 1958

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.374

Description: The bottom half of the painting is a pond with lots of weeds . The area behind the water is farm land. Sitting at the top of the hill is a yellow house and a grey barn with a light brown road coming from between the buildings.

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

Title: Rural Scene, Eastern Canada

Date: 1958

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.0 x 30.2 cm

Description: The bottom half of the painting is a pond with lots of weeds . The area behind the water is farm land. Sitting at the top of the hill is a yellow house and a grey barn with a light brown road coming from between the buildings.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; architecture; barn; house

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.374

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Barrier Lake

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

Date: 1952

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.375

Description: The blue lake in the center of this image is surrounded by green trees. Behind the lake the mountains are partically covered with trees and some are light brown in color with no trees. The sky above the lake and mountains is pale blue with some white clouds. The foreground area has a road that begi…

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

Title: Barrier Lake

Date: 1952

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.3 cm

Description: The blue lake in the center of this image is surrounded by green trees. Behind the lake the mountains are partically covered with trees and some are light brown in color with no trees. The sky above the lake and mountains is pale blue with some white clouds. The foreground area has a road that begins on the left and follows threw to the right, with a dip down in the bottom center area.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; Barrier Lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.375

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Boat

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

Date: 1958

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.377

Description: Sitting in the bottom left corner is a fishing boat on an angle with a blue shadow behind it reaching over to the right side.

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

Title: Boat

Date: 1958

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.3 x 30.3 cm

Description: Sitting in the bottom left corner is a fishing boat on an angle with a blue shadow behind it reaching over to the right side.

Subject: transportation; boat

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.377

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Kananaskis Lakes

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

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.404

Description: A blue lake is centre foreground surrounded by mountains. Evergreen trees in both right and left foreground. Cloudy sky.

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

Title: Kananaskis Lakes

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.7 cm

Description: A blue lake is centre foreground surrounded by mountains. Evergreen trees in both right and left foreground. Cloudy sky.

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.404

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Untitled

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

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: waterc olour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.01

Description: Located in the top right corner of the paper there is a pink flower. This flower has been painted using different shades of pink for highlights and darker shades in the shadow areas. Some violet has been used at the base of the flower. In the lower left corner are two more flowers with heavy outli…

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

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: waterc olour on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 21.5 cm

Description: Located in the top right corner of the paper there is a pink flower. This flower has been painted using different shades of pink for highlights and darker shades in the shadow areas. Some violet has been used at the base of the flower. In the lower left corner are two more flowers with heavy outlines made from a graphite pencil. These flowers are also pink. They have green and yellow stems and centers. The remainder of the paper is blank.

Subject: botanical; flowers

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.01

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Untitled

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

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.02

Description: Along the top edge of the paper is a green leaf with three stems that have purple and pink flowers at the ends. The flowers are hanging down toward the bottom of the paper. Located in the tlc is a pink and yellow flower facing the left edge of the paper. In the middle and positioned a bit to the ri…

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

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 27.6 cm

Description: Along the top edge of the paper is a green leaf with three stems that have purple and pink flowers at the ends. The flowers are hanging down toward the bottom of the paper. Located in the tlc is a pink and yellow flower facing the left edge of the paper. In the middle and positioned a bit to the right there is another flower light green/brown, pink and yellow in colour with a medium to dark blue center. A small square shape has been drawn with graphite at the center left of the paper. The remainder of the paper is blank.

Subject: botanical; flowers

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.02

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Untitled

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

Date: c. 1915

Medium: watercolour on graph paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.15.01

Description: The house is a white colour with green spots through-out the exterior. The cut out house has seventeen windows on the front side and two doors. All the windows have green shutters that will close over the windows and the two doors open to show the inside the house. The entire front of the house ope…

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

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1915

Medium: watercolour on graph paper

Dimensions: 13.0 x 25.3 cm

Description: The house is a white colour with green spots through-out the exterior. The cut out house has seventeen windows on the front side and two doors. All the windows have green shutters that will close over the windows and the two doors open to show the inside the house. The entire front of the house opens up to expose the interior rooms and furniture. All the details within the rooms have been coloured and the closet doors within the rooms open up also to show what is behind the door. The very top section of the house which is the attic area is also made to open up and expose four bedrooms. Detail ranging from the art on the walls to the dishes in the cupboards have been included in every room. The roof is a brown colour with red chimneys in three places. The house has a brick patio area on the left side with a plant cover over top. The grass in the foreground is green and there are two walks in the front yard. One to the front door and the other is to the patio. The sky above is a medium colour of blue.

Subject: architecture; house

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.15.01

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Untitled

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

Date: 1918

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.03

Description: White house in the center with 5 pink trees horizontally in line with it. Flowers below the trees, clouds above the trees, 3 marked paths between the trees.

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

Title: Untitled

Date: 1918

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 18.5 x 31.0 cm

Description: White house in the center with 5 pink trees horizontally in line with it. Flowers below the trees, clouds above the trees, 3 marked paths between the trees.

Subject: house; Robb; pink trees; childhood home

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.03

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Untitled

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

Date: 1918

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.04

Description: White house in the top centre with 3 horizontal rows of equally spaced trees. The bottom centre has 3 circles of girls in red yellow and blue dressed, 2 around trees and the centre circle around a ribbon pole. Maypole dance.

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

Title: Untitled

Date: 1918

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 23.0 x 31.0 cm

Description: White house in the top centre with 3 horizontal rows of equally spaced trees. The bottom centre has 3 circles of girls in red yellow and blue dressed, 2 around trees and the centre circle around a ribbon pole. Maypole dance.

Subject: ribbon pole; Maypole; white house; childhood

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.04

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Japan

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

Date: c. 1918

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.05

Description: Gray Japanese temple on right hand side with cherry blossom trees throughout and a winding river on the left hand side. Multiple drawings of people doing various activities.

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

Title: Japan

Date: c. 1918

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 23.8 x 31.5 cm

Description: Gray Japanese temple on right hand side with cherry blossom trees throughout and a winding river on the left hand side. Multiple drawings of people doing various activities.

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.05

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Untitled

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

Date: 1915

Medium: graphite and coloured graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.047

Description: 4 horizontal drawings : 1. a line with 5 circles; 2. a line with three semicircular arches; 3. three trees on viewers left; 4. three houses

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

Title: Untitled

Date: 1915

Medium: graphite and coloured graphite on paper

Dimensions: 30.5 x 23.2 cm

Description: 4 horizontal drawings : 1. a line with 5 circles; 2. a line with three semicircular arches; 3. three trees on viewers left; 4. three houses