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The Entrance

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Artist: Peter Bax (1895 – 1952, British)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: BaP.04.05

Description: 5 actors, 2 male and 3 female are lined up on scaffolding outside an open, curtained door. The scaffolding and the railing dominate the center third of the picture. The women appear to be wearing maids uniforms.

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Artist: Peter Bax (1895 – 1952, British)

Title: The Entrance

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 30.3 x 14.5 cm

Description: 5 actors, 2 male and 3 female are lined up on scaffolding outside an open, curtained door. The scaffolding and the railing dominate the center third of the picture. The women appear to be wearing maids uniforms.

Subject: figure; group; architecture; urban; Christmas

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: BaP.04.05

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Tokyo Aristocratic School Picture of Banquet of Gakushu

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Date: 1877

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.09 a-c

Description: This triptych is highly decorative with a flower motif on everything from the carpet to the kimonos. Most prevalent colour is red and green. A banquet is occurring. On the first panel in the trc two women sit on a platform. 5 other women standing and sitting are in this panel as well, all facin…

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Title: Tokyo Aristocratic School Picture of Banquet of Gakushu

Date: 1877

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 36 x 72 cm

Description: This triptych is highly decorative with a flower motif on everything from the carpet to the kimonos. Most prevalent colour is red and green. A banquet is occurring. On the first panel in the trc two women sit on a platform. 5 other women standing and sitting are in this panel as well, all facing right. The second panel features a table covered with food and flowers. 3 active women are gathered around the table, almost blending into the decorations while a fourth woman kneels in the trc facing right. A rectangular descriptive panel is in the trc. The third panel features a separate room in the tlc where the men are gathered around a table and served by women. 5 women are gathered in the foreground of this panel playing instruments and holding small bowls; they are facing the table that is in the second panel.

Subject: activity;gathering; banquet; group; women; men; flowers

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

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.09 a-c

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Reefs Ahead

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Artist: J. B. Freitas

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: etching on paper

Catalogue Number: FrJ.04.01

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Artist: J. B. Freitas

Title: Reefs Ahead

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: etching on paper

Dimensions: 16.0 x 21.5 cm

Subject: seascape; Pacific; figure; group; activity; fishing

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: FrJ.04.01

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Snow Scene in Oume, Hunabiki-Doli

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Artist: Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 – 1915, Japanese)

Date: 1879

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: KiY.04.02

Description: two ladies standing near a bridge, wearing stilted clogs and carrying closed umbrellas, three other people appear in the distance, the sky and water are very grey, trees and buildings are lightly covered with snow

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Artist: Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 – 1915, Japanese)

Title: Snow Scene in Oume, Hunabiki-Doli

Date: 1879

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 24.9 x 36.7 cm

Description: two ladies standing near a bridge, wearing stilted clogs and carrying closed umbrellas, three other people appear in the distance, the sky and water are very grey, trees and buildings are lightly covered with snow

Subject: landscape; figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: KiY.04.02

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Snow in the Dawn

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Artist: Odo Kokusei

Date: 1879

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: KkO.04.01 a-c

Description: (a) group of ladies frolicking in the snow, building large snowballs, and throwing snow at each other (b) 36.8 x 25.4/36.0 x 24.6 in the foreground a lady in an elaborate kimono sits by the entrance of a building watching the activity outside, the background is dominated by a large snow Buddha-like…

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Artist: Odo Kokusei

Title: Snow in the Dawn

Date: 1879

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 36.8 x 25.3 cm

Description: (a) group of ladies frolicking in the snow, building large snowballs, and throwing snow at each other (b) 36.8 x 25.4/36.0 x 24.6 in the foreground a lady in an elaborate kimono sits by the entrance of a building watching the activity outside, the background is dominated by a large snow Buddha-like structure (c) 36.8 x 25.5/36.2 x 25.2 a gentleman seated on a cushion glances at the activity outside, while a lady behind him carries a tray with a snow sculpture

Subject: figure; group; activity; female; male

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

Catalogue Number: KkO.04.01 a-c

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Untitled

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Artist: Robert J. McGuinness (1886 – 1961, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: McR.05.02

Description: The top half is all sky, faded streaks of colour, a mountain range, Mount Assiniboine in background, runs from edge to edge centre, four skiers centre left, all facing to the right, in action poses, that is speeding downhill.

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Artist: Robert J. McGuinness (1886 – 1961, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 55.7 x 76.5 cm

Description: The top half is all sky, faded streaks of colour, a mountain range, Mount Assiniboine in background, runs from edge to edge centre, four skiers centre left, all facing to the right, in action poses, that is speeding downhill.

Subject: landscape; Rocky Mountains; group; skiers; winter; skiing

Credit: Gift of Steve T. Hincks, Banff, 1989

Catalogue Number: McR.05.02

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Summer Night

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.25

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Summer Night

Date: 1931

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 17.5 x 24.0 cm

Subject: landscape; figure; group; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.25

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Banyan Tree, Bali

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.023

Description: Colour: brown, green. Two banyon trees fill the outer edges of the picture and the foreground. Behind n the distance are a few figures and a building to the left. Bits of sky can be seen through the branches of the trees.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Banyan Tree, Bali

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35 x 27.5 cm

Description: Colour: brown, green. Two banyon trees fill the outer edges of the picture and the foreground. Behind n the distance are a few figures and a building to the left. Bits of sky can be seen through the branches of the trees.

Subject: landscape; architecture; figure; group; Pacific

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.023

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Plantation Houses, Hawaii

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.046

Description: Colour: white, green, brown. In the foreground are large green round shaped plants which give way to an open space which is in front of a group of white buildings. There is a woman carrying two water pails in the center. Two more figures are at the right and another group further right. At the righ…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Plantation Houses, Hawaii

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: white, green, brown. In the foreground are large green round shaped plants which give way to an open space which is in front of a group of white buildings. There is a woman carrying two water pails in the center. Two more figures are at the right and another group further right. At the right edge is a building, a line of laundry, another building back further. Behind these is a dark green forest.

Subject: architecture; rural; figure; group; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.046

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Teepees at Banff Indian Days

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.056

Description: Colour: blue, red, yellow, green, tan. Five teepees (the center three going into the distance) with figures grouped around them fills the lower two thirds. The edge of a sixth teepee can be seen in the lower night corner. Behind is a bank of green trees and beyond a blue mountain side and sky in th…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Teepees at Banff Indian Days

Date: 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, red, yellow, green, tan. Five teepees (the center three going into the distance) with figures grouped around them fills the lower two thirds. The edge of a sixth teepee can be seen in the lower night corner. Behind is a bank of green trees and beyond a blue mountain side and sky in the upper left corner.