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Painting; Fine Art Easel; Presentation Case
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.39.1011%20a%2cb
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- wood; fibre; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.39.1011 a,b
- Description
- Elaborately carved, W. J. Phillips' (a) presentation case: 61.5x79.3x12.5, hinged lid drops open, held by 52.5 long chains both sides. Lid elaborately carved, centre design 34.0x27.0,leaves, berries, etc. Border 8.0 wide carved square chain design, corners pinwheel, inside lined with green velvet …
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- Title
- Painting; Fine Art Easel; Presentation Case
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- wood; fibre; metal
- Description
- Elaborately carved, W. J. Phillips' (a) presentation case: 61.5x79.3x12.5, hinged lid drops open, held by 52.5 long chains both sides. Lid elaborately carved, centre design 34.0x27.0,leaves, berries, etc. Border 8.0 wide carved square chain design, corners pinwheel, inside lined with green velvet (b) easel: 183.0x71.0, top of upright ca 40.0x30.0 elaborately carved, also carving on upright and both wings, more carving at cross bar. Feet of wings curve out into scroll. Tray has turned outer edge with carved design brace, brace broken in 2 places (old), the upright has 9 holes for movement of tray, the 2 wings have 2 holes near top for installation of case. The back lever is 140.0 long with 21.5 foot, attached to the back of the upright with a bolt and brace mechanism. Condition: water spots over all, left wing foot broken off and secured with 3 screws, piece broken off right wing top, glued back on, gouges from improper moving of tray, lever slightly warped.
- Credit
- Gift of Grace Turner, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- 104.39.1011 a,b
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Camp Many-Haw-Haw-s
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.02.1027
- Date
- 1930 – 1970
- Material
- paper; glass; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1027
- Description
- A mixed media picture of a Girl Guides camp scene. Mountains in the background. Girls are involved in the many camp activities. Signed brc "CJL" Titled "Camp Many-Haw-Haw-s”.
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- Title
- Camp Many-Haw-Haw-s
- Date
- 1930 – 1970
- Material
- paper; glass; wood
- Dimensions
- 51.0 x 58.5 cm
- Description
- A mixed media picture of a Girl Guides camp scene. Mountains in the background. Girls are involved in the many camp activities. Signed brc "CJL" Titled "Camp Many-Haw-Haw-s”.
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1027
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- Date
- 1930 – 1970
- Material
- paper; glass; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1028
- Description
- A watercolour of a Girl Guides camp scene. Forest in the background. Girls are involved in the many camp activities. Signed brc "Gail Grady" blc red ribbon with" First Handicraft" printed on it. In tlc is a blue card "Class 1, Age 14, Name Gail Grady, Company or Pack 2nd"
- Title
- Painting
- Date
- 1930 – 1970
- Material
- paper; glass; wood
- Dimensions
- 49.5 x 57.3 cm
- Description
- A watercolour of a Girl Guides camp scene. Forest in the background. Girls are involved in the many camp activities. Signed brc "Gail Grady" blc red ribbon with" First Handicraft" printed on it. In tlc is a blue card "Class 1, Age 14, Name Gail Grady, Company or Pack 2nd"
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1028
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Untitled [cowboy roping horse]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbec.05.01
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- watercolour on pressed paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.05.01
- Description
- A cowboy wearing a blue shirt, brown vest, green neckerchief, orange/yellow chaps, a holster and gun, in bottom right of picture, has roped a horse on front legs, center left. The roped horse is falling forward. Six other horses are running in the background, a lot of dust in corral. The sky is yel…
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- Title
- Untitled [cowboy roping horse]
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- watercolour on pressed paper
- Dimensions
- 32.5 x 25.4 cm
- Description
- A cowboy wearing a blue shirt, brown vest, green neckerchief, orange/yellow chaps, a holster and gun, in bottom right of picture, has roped a horse on front legs, center left. The roped horse is falling forward. Six other horses are running in the background, a lot of dust in corral. The sky is yellow. The roped horse has a brand on left shoulder: lazy N over bar one.
- Subject
- figure, cowboy
- animal, horse
- Credit
- Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.05.01
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Our Bear/Red Toy Box
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- Date
- 1986
- Medium
- oil; chalk on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- BoT.02.01
- Description
- Top half of picture is predominantly red, a little yellow and light blue, yellow top left corner, down left side and foreground, written in red at top: for Brian. A teddy bear with blue polka dot pants is sitting in bottom left corner, behind and to the left of him a house, across the bottom our b…
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- Title
- Our Bear/Red Toy Box
- Date
- 1986
- Medium
- oil; chalk on canvas
- Dimensions
- 96.7 x 71.2 cm
- Description
- Top half of picture is predominantly red, a little yellow and light blue, yellow top left corner, down left side and foreground, written in red at top: for Brian. A teddy bear with blue polka dot pants is sitting in bottom left corner, behind and to the left of him a house, across the bottom our bear/red toy box 86 Boyle.
- Subject
- whimsical
- teddy bear
- Therese (Terri) Boyle
- Credit
- Purchased from Therese Boyle, Edmonton, 1987
- Catalogue Number
- BoT.02.01
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Tom Wilson’s Cabin - Kootenay Plains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactema.05.01
- Date
- 1996
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- EmA.05.01
- Description
- A medium size log cabin is surrounded by green grass and trees. The roof of the cabin has grass growing on it and the sky above is gray with many clouds. Most of the trees around this cabin are located at the back and the green grass is in the foreground.
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- Title
- Tom Wilson’s Cabin - Kootenay Plains
- Date
- 1996
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.9 x 35.0 cm
- Description
- A medium size log cabin is surrounded by green grass and trees. The roof of the cabin has grass growing on it and the sky above is gray with many clouds. Most of the trees around this cabin are located at the back and the green grass is in the foreground.
- Credit
- Gift of Alex Emond, Banff, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- EmA.05.01
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King of the Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactenm.12.01
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil; acrylic on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.01
- Description
- The center of the painting is a bear turned so it is looking to the left and out of the image frame. Behind the bear is a mountain range with some snow and ice throughout. In the bottom left corner there is a skull from a bighorn sheep. The lower right hand corner has bear foot prints in black with…
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- Title
- King of the Rockies
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil; acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 213.3 x 152.4 cm
- Description
- The center of the painting is a bear turned so it is looking to the left and out of the image frame. Behind the bear is a mountain range with some snow and ice throughout. In the bottom left corner there is a skull from a bighorn sheep. The lower right hand corner has bear foot prints in black with red around them. The bear has a brown colour fur and the ground that it is standing on is blue green. The sky is also a green colour while the mountains have green shadows and white highlights. Located directly behind the bear are two black lines that crisscross as they get higher to the top of the painting.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- animal
- bear
- Credit
- Gift of Maureen Enns, Cochrane, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.01
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- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- acrylic; charcoal; paper; glue on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.03
- Description
- Predominant colours are black, dark blue, grey and white. There is an outline of one large grizzly bear on the top two-thirds (viewer’s left) of the painting, side view, painted black, and the back part is flat background painted dark blue; this extends to the bottom left. The right side is backgro…
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- Title
- Flint’s Park
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- acrylic; charcoal; paper; glue on canvas
- Dimensions
- 104.0 x 104.0 cm
- Description
- Predominant colours are black, dark blue, grey and white. There is an outline of one large grizzly bear on the top two-thirds (viewer’s left) of the painting, side view, painted black, and the back part is flat background painted dark blue; this extends to the bottom left. The right side is background and is painted white from top to the paw (viewer’s right) to the bottom of the painting. Overlapping this a large cutout of a bear, grey, white, and black charcoal, dominates the painting. Across the top of his body is a stencilled sign: “FLINTS PARK CABIN”, below this the outline of a Bighorn sheep’s head, and below this “WARDEN SERVICE” “BANFF NATIONAL PARK” is stencilled across his legs. Under this bear, to the viewer’s right, is the cutout of a grizzly bear’s head, painted black, and his left paw which is clutching a wire. The painting is signed in the brc “Enns ‘93”. On the unpainted part of the paper llhc: “Flint’s Park - B.N.P.” and lrhc: “Maureen Enns 1993”.
- Credit
- Gift of Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.03
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Blondie and Friend Icefields Parkway 1991
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactenm.12.05
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- acrylic; charcoal on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.05
- Description
- Two bears done in charcoal and outlined in red paint walk in front of mountains that are in the background. The mountain range is outlined in white paint.
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- Title
- Blondie and Friend Icefields Parkway 1991
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- acrylic; charcoal on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.0 x 73.0 cm
- Description
- Two bears done in charcoal and outlined in red paint walk in front of mountains that are in the background. The mountain range is outlined in white paint.
- Subject
- mountains
- animal, bears
- Maureen Enns
- Credit
- Gift of Maureen Enns, Cochrane, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.05
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Lake Louise, Evening
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactfet.07.01
- Date
- 1982
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Catalogue Number
- FeT.07.01
- Description
- Green foreground and blue lake across bottom two thirds of picture; sides of two dark green mountains meet off centre with white glacier and clouds in chasm,a little blue sky shows through.
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- Title
- Lake Louise, Evening
- Date
- 1982
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 13.8 x 27.7 cm
- Description
- Green foreground and blue lake across bottom two thirds of picture; sides of two dark green mountains meet off centre with white glacier and clouds in chasm,a little blue sky shows through.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Credit
- Purchased from Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- FeT.07.01
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Kananaskis Moss and Pine Needles
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactfod.02.01
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- FoD.02.01
- Description
- The entire canvas is filled with a realistic rendering (from a photograph) of a forest floor, light green moss dominates the centre, spreading out to top right and lower left, top left corner is mottled white, overlaid are varied coloured long grasses and pine needles
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- Title
- Kananaskis Moss and Pine Needles
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 101.0 x 152.0 cm
- Description
- The entire canvas is filled with a realistic rendering (from a photograph) of a forest floor, light green moss dominates the centre, spreading out to top right and lower left, top left corner is mottled white, overlaid are varied coloured long grasses and pine needles
- Credit
- Purchased from Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, 1989
- Catalogue Number
- FoD.02.01
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Part of the Sawback Range
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgyh.02.02
- Date
- 1981
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.02.02
- Description
- In the foreground are rocks of different size and colour ranging from a pale yellow to blue grey hue. The distant Rockie Mountains, are very sharp and resemble the teeth of a wood saw. The distant mountains are grey and blue, while the larger rocks in the mid ground are tones of brown and yellow. T…
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- Title
- Part of the Sawback Range
- Date
- 1981
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60.96 x 72.20 cm
- Description
- In the foreground are rocks of different size and colour ranging from a pale yellow to blue grey hue. The distant Rockie Mountains, are very sharp and resemble the teeth of a wood saw. The distant mountains are grey and blue, while the larger rocks in the mid ground are tones of brown and yellow. The very bottom of the image is light to medium yellow in colour and is free of any rocks with a signature in the blc. Above the mountains in the background the sky is white, mid blue and blue grey in colour.
- Credit
- Purchased from Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.02.02
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Lookout #2, Pacific Rim
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacthaa.05.01
- Date
- 1983
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HaA.05.01
- Description
- An English Sheepdog, facing to the left, is standing on a beach near the water's edge. The sand is gray/blue, the ocean is green/blue with white highlights.
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- Title
- Lookout #2, Pacific Rim
- Date
- 1983
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 49.0 x 70.7 cm
- Description
- An English Sheepdog, facing to the left, is standing on a beach near the water's edge. The sand is gray/blue, the ocean is green/blue with white highlights.
- Subject
- seascape
- animal, dog
- Credit
- Purchased from Mira Godard Gallery, Gallery, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- HaA.05.01
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- Date
- 1990
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- HdD.02.01
- Description
- In the center of the painting there is a white outline of a nude male figure. The face down figure has one arm outstreached in front and the other outstreached to the side. Off set to the lower left a bit, is the same male again but this time with his body painted in black, white and purple. Also…
- Title
- Emergence
- Date
- 1990
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 160.0 x 160.0 cm
- Description
- In the center of the painting there is a white outline of a nude male figure. The face down figure has one arm outstreached in front and the other outstreached to the side. Off set to the lower left a bit, is the same male again but this time with his body painted in black, white and purple. Also in the same area there is a wolf leaning down to get a drink of water and directly beneath that wolf is his reflection that looks like another wolf. Both wolves are purple with white highlights. At the top left corner there is a ring of fire, orange and red in colour. The background behind the above mentioned is black and the paint has been applied very thick (almost impasto in some places). The frame for the canvas is made out of natural wood poles and the ends stick out at each corner and cross over each other.
- Subject
- figure
- male
- animal
- wolf
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Dan Hudson, Canmore, 1993
- Catalogue Number
- HdD.02.01
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Near Quartz Ridge
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- Artist
- Zelda F. Nelson-Henricks
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HeZ.05.01
- Description
- A mountain landscape, the foreground is covered with rocks and varied green grasses, dark green evergreens in central area, centre left to right is a mountain range with some snow, the top third is blue sky with narrow white clouds.
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- Artist
- Zelda F. Nelson-Henricks
- Title
- Near Quartz Ridge
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.3 x 35.4 cm
- Description
- A mountain landscape, the foreground is covered with rocks and varied green grasses, dark green evergreens in central area, centre left to right is a mountain range with some snow, the top third is blue sky with narrow white clouds.
- Credit
- Purchased from Sunshine Village, Banff, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- HeZ.05.01
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- Artist
- A Hunter
- Title
- Yoho Valley
- Date
- 1932
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.5 x 25.0 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- forest
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- HuA.05.01
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Evening, Lake O'Hara
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactjkr.02.02
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- JkR.02.02
- Description
- In the foreground on the right side of the painting there are four green trees and a shore made out of mostly rocks. To the left and along the bottom edge a lake of bluegreen water sits in front of a brown mountain range. The mountains have snow on parts of the peaks and the sky is blue with white …
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- Title
- Evening, Lake O'Hara
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 69.9 x 90.0 cm
- Description
- In the foreground on the right side of the painting there are four green trees and a shore made out of mostly rocks. To the left and along the bottom edge a lake of bluegreen water sits in front of a brown mountain range. The mountains have snow on parts of the peaks and the sky is blue with white clouds.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Lake O'Hara
- Credit
- Gift of Donald Grace, Saanichton, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- JkR.02.02
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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- Date
- 1986
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- KeI.02.04
- Description
- A farm scene with pink, grey and purple foothills behind, and dust devils in front rising to a turbulent sky. The lower one-third is the grey road lined by green on both sides through the fields; on the viewer’s left are fields in gold, green, grey, purple and brown, and on the viewer’s left of the…
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- Title
- Dust Devils
- Date
- 1986
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 122.0 x 137.0 cm
- Description
- A farm scene with pink, grey and purple foothills behind, and dust devils in front rising to a turbulent sky. The lower one-third is the grey road lined by green on both sides through the fields; on the viewer’s left are fields in gold, green, grey, purple and brown, and on the viewer’s left of the road, a red shed with a purple roof, then a white farmhouse with a purple roof, and another shed partially obscured by the dust funnel rising up to mingle with clouds in the sky. Further to the left another red building with a purple roof and to the left of that another dust funnel (dust devil) rising up to the storm clouds and sheets of weather in the sky. Three-quarters of the painting is the purple,pink and grey clouds and several storm sheets creating a large foreboding sky. Signed on the bottom left corner with the artist’s logo.
- Credit
- Gift of Johannes Thiessen, Calgary, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- KeI.02.04
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From Sulphur Mountain III
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- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KhJ.05.01
- Description
- The top part of a mountain dominates the top half of the picture, it is shrouded in clouds and fog.
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- Title
- From Sulphur Mountain III
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 55.0 x 43.0 cm
- Description
- The top part of a mountain dominates the top half of the picture, it is shrouded in clouds and fog.
- Credit
- Purchased from Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, 1987
- Catalogue Number
- KhJ.05.01
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Towards Wildhorse Creek
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- Artist
- Marilyn Kinsella
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KiM.05.01
- Description
- A realistic rendering of a mountain landscape. The top third is a pale blue wash, fading lighter near the mountain range, a snow covered peak is dominant centre. A dark blue slope indicating forest in bottom left while a light brown slope dominates the right bottom.
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- Artist
- Marilyn Kinsella
- Title
- Towards Wildhorse Creek
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 55.0 x 74.0 cm
- Description
- A realistic rendering of a mountain landscape. The top third is a pale blue wash, fading lighter near the mountain range, a snow covered peak is dominant centre. A dark blue slope indicating forest in bottom left while a light brown slope dominates the right bottom.
- Subject
- landscape, mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Eleanor G Luxton, Banff, 1987
- Catalogue Number
- KiM.05.01
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