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- Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian) 8
- Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian) 5
- Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British) 5
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Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbes.05.07
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.07
- Description
- Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corne…
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- Title
- Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 32.8 x 48.0 cm
- Description
- Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corner. “F.M. Bell-Smith 1887” at bottom right.
- Credit
- Gift of Mark Cullen, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.07
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Lake near Mount Assiniboine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbrf.05.01
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BrF.05.01
- Description
- Lake in Mt. Assiniboine area.
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- Title
- Lake near Mount Assiniboine
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 37.9 cm
- Description
- Lake in Mt. Assiniboine area.
- Credit
- Purchased from Hodgins Art Auctions Ltd., Calgary, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- BrF.05.01
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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When the Ice Goes Out
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbwb.01.01
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- BwB.01.01
- Description
- General colour: green, grey. Rocky point of land comes down to the water from the lower left corner across the lower edge to right center. The green water has chunks of ice floating on it. The far shore of trees, one third up, rises quickly to two mountains. One is to the right the other in the dis…
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- Title
- When the Ice Goes Out
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 23 x 28 cm
- Description
- General colour: green, grey. Rocky point of land comes down to the water from the lower left corner across the lower edge to right center. The green water has chunks of ice floating on it. The far shore of trees, one third up, rises quickly to two mountains. One is to the right the other in the distance at center. The grey sky fills the upper corner.
- Credit
- Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- BwB.01.01
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At Lake Minnewanka
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- Artist
- Doris Cormie
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- painting on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CmD.05.05
- Description
- A watercolour landscape painting of mountains and a lake. There are three grey mountains in the background and behind them is a cloudless blue sky. In the foreground is a blue-green lake. On the bottom right, part of the shore with three large rocks, is visible. In the centre at the bottom, a few b…
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- Artist
- Doris Cormie
- Title
- At Lake Minnewanka
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- painting on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.0 x 37.0 cm
- Description
- A watercolour landscape painting of mountains and a lake. There are three grey mountains in the background and behind them is a cloudless blue sky. In the foreground is a blue-green lake. On the bottom right, part of the shore with three large rocks, is visible. In the centre at the bottom, a few branches and two logs are breaking through the water. On the left side a large boulder sits in the water. In the middle ground there is forest along the lake shore. The forest starts out of frame on the right and extends just over halfway across the painting. Behind the forest on the left are two green hills. Greys, blues, greens and brown are the primary colours used. The artist signature is in the bottom rhc. Au verso, written in pencil along the bottom edge is, “At Lake Minnewanka aug 28/38 Doris Cormie” and also in pencil in the centre of the paper is “27” with a circle around it. Just right of centre near the top is written, “5334”.
- Subject
- landscape
- lake
- mountains
- Doris Cormie
- Credit
- Gift of Barry Hunter Gillis, Richmond, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- CmD.05.05
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- Artist
- Doris Cormie
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- painting on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CmD.05.06
- Description
- A watercolour painting of a mountain landscape with a lake. A distinct and pointed Mt. Edith right of centre in the background dominates this painting. The mountain is beige with green and grey. Behind the mountain is a blue cloudless sky. To the left of Mt. Edith is a mountain range extending out …
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- Artist
- Doris Cormie
- Title
- Mount Edith
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- painting on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 40.0 cm
- Description
- A watercolour painting of a mountain landscape with a lake. A distinct and pointed Mt. Edith right of centre in the background dominates this painting. The mountain is beige with green and grey. Behind the mountain is a blue cloudless sky. To the left of Mt. Edith is a mountain range extending out of frame and on the right is the side of another mountain leading out of frame. In the middle ground is a short line of shrubs and trees with two tall pine trees on the far right. In the foreground is an indigo and blue lake with the shore visible along the bottom edge, predominately on the right side. Blue, purple, green, grey and beige are the main colours used. The artist signature is at the bottom right. Au verso, written in pencil along the bottom, “Mt. Edith Cormie Aug 24/38”. Written right of centre in the bottom half of the paper is, “14 x 10 1/4 6 x 6 1/2 20 x 16 3/4”. Written on the left side mid way up is, “51” with a circle around it.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Mount. Edith
- lake
- Doris Cormie
- Credit
- Gift of Barry Hunter Gillis, Richmond, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- CmD.05.06
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On the Columbia between Revelstoke and Arrow Lakes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.106
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on oil paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.106
- Description
- Scene with a lake in the forground center moving back over sloping forests to the mountain in the background.“It is not surprising that this soft, moody sketch shows some wear as Collings seems to have been travelling by canoe. The artist would have been well into his seventies on this trip.” -- …
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- Title
- On the Columbia between Revelstoke and Arrow Lakes
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on oil paper
- Dimensions
- 26 x 20 cm
- Description
- Scene with a lake in the forground center moving back over sloping forests to the mountain in the background.“It is not surprising that this soft, moody sketch shows some wear as Collings seems to have been travelling by canoe. The artist would have been well into his seventies on this trip.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.106
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A Flat in Caribou Country
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.353
- Date
- c. 1915
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.353
- Description
- A lake scene with trees to the left, water in the foreground, and mountains and more trees in the background.Title is in top left corner: “A Flat in Caribou Country”Other writing throughout denoting colour scheme.
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- Title
- A Flat in Caribou Country
- Date
- c. 1915
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.0 x 26.0 cm
- Description
- A lake scene with trees to the left, water in the foreground, and mountains and more trees in the background.Title is in top left corner: “A Flat in Caribou Country”Other writing throughout denoting colour scheme.
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.353
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Valley Floor in Mountains
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- Date
- c. 1915
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.354
- Description
- Top half of paper has image of a river(?) with mountains and trees framing it on both sides.
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- Title
- Valley Floor in Mountains
- Date
- c. 1915
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.0 x 26.0 cm
- Description
- Top half of paper has image of a river(?) with mountains and trees framing it on both sides.
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.354
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North Shuswap Lake
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.355
- Date
- c. 1915
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.355
- Description
- A lake in foreground, with land protruding out from right edge to centre of image, with mountains in the background.
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- Title
- North Shuswap Lake
- Date
- c. 1915
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 8.7 x 20.0 cm
- Description
- A lake in foreground, with land protruding out from right edge to centre of image, with mountains in the background.
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.355
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People on Lakeshore in mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.356
- Date
- c. 1915
- Medium
- graphite on cheque; paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.356
- Description
- Image is only drawn on 3/4 of the paper. A fold line denotes where the image ends. A rough rendition of people on the shore of a lake with mountains in the background and puffy clouds in the sky.Item is drawn in pencil on the back of a blue Bank of Montreal cheque.
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- Title
- People on Lakeshore in mountains
- Date
- c. 1915
- Medium
- graphite on cheque; paper
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 20.5 cm
- Description
- Image is only drawn on 3/4 of the paper. A fold line denotes where the image ends. A rough rendition of people on the shore of a lake with mountains in the background and puffy clouds in the sky.Item is drawn in pencil on the back of a blue Bank of Montreal cheque.
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.356
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Bow River Valley
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcrd.02.02
- Date
- 1981
- Medium
- painting on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- CrD.02.02
- Description
- A landscape oil painting. In the background is a blue sky with big fluffy white clouds and a mountain range with rolling hills in front. After the hills is a line of forest and in the foreground are two small ponds separated by a thin strip of land with tall grass and the ponds are surrounded by a …
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- Title
- Bow River Valley
- Date
- 1981
- Medium
- painting on canvas
- Dimensions
- 46.0 x 61.0 cm
- Description
- A landscape oil painting. In the background is a blue sky with big fluffy white clouds and a mountain range with rolling hills in front. After the hills is a line of forest and in the foreground are two small ponds separated by a thin strip of land with tall grass and the ponds are surrounded by a lone, green pine tree on the left and three golden-leaved poplar trees on the right. The artist signature is painted in the bottom rhc in red, “DUNCAN /81”. Au verso, on the top edge of the canvas in black pen is written, “EARLY AUTUMN, MORLEY, ALBERTA”. On the top left corner of the canvas is written, “2500.00”. In the centre at the bottom of the frame is a white label with blue ink, “Gainsborough Galleries (1974) Ltd. FINE ART DEALERS & FRAME MAKERS 805 611-8th AVENUE S.W. CALGARY - ALBERTA T2P 1H1 “EARLY AUTUMN, MORLEY, ALBERTA” An Original Oil Painting By DUNCAN CROCKFORD XD/167”.
- Subject
- landscape
- lake
- Duncan Crockford
- Credit
- Gift of William Randall (Estate), Halifax, 2011
- Catalogue Number
- CrD.02.02
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Lake near Jasper, Canadian Rockies
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- Artist
- Donald Curran (1955 – )
- Date
- 2007
- Medium
- on board
- Catalogue Number
- CuR.02.01
- Description
- An oil painting on board, unframed. The top-half of the painting comprises the brown and beige shoreline, the red and white boathouse, green coniferous trees, the mountains with snow-covered peaks and the blue sky with horizontal mauve and purple clouds. The bottom half of the painting comprises th…
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- Artist
- Donald Curran (1955 – )
- Title
- Lake near Jasper, Canadian Rockies
- Date
- 2007
- Medium
- on board
- Dimensions
- 20.3 x 24.5 cm
- Description
- An oil painting on board, unframed. The top-half of the painting comprises the brown and beige shoreline, the red and white boathouse, green coniferous trees, the mountains with snow-covered peaks and the blue sky with horizontal mauve and purple clouds. The bottom half of the painting comprises the lake and on the viewer’s left, the rocky shoreline and the top-half reflected in the water: the boathouse, the mountains behind, the trees and the sky. The artist signature is in the rhc: DONALD CURRAN 2007. Au verso top printed in pen “LAKE NEAR JASPER CANADIAN ROCKIES” signed in script underneath “Donald Curran 2007”.
- Credit
- Gift of Kerry Guenter, 2007
- Catalogue Number
- CuR.02.01
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- Date
- c. 1947
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.02
- Description
- The lake dominates from centre to bottom of picture, sweeping colours of green, blue, and white; mountain showing moraines with snow in top half of picture. The top of the mountain is not showing. Green trees around lake.
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- Title
- Moraine Lake
- Date
- c. 1947
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 50.5 cm
- Description
- The lake dominates from centre to bottom of picture, sweeping colours of green, blue, and white; mountain showing moraines with snow in top half of picture. The top of the mountain is not showing. Green trees around lake.
- Credit
- Purchased from Sotheby Parke Bernet (Canada) Ltd, Toronto, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.02
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Autumn in the Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdak.02.03
- Date
- 1944 – 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.03
- Description
- More than half the painting is a lake with the reflection of fall trees, yellow and green, and a mountain range behind. The top half is yellow aspens and evergreens on lakeshore and blue, purple, grey and white mountains with a light blue sky.
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- Title
- Autumn in the Canadian Rockies
- Date
- 1944 – 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.2 x 50.5 cm
- Description
- More than half the painting is a lake with the reflection of fall trees, yellow and green, and a mountain range behind. The top half is yellow aspens and evergreens on lakeshore and blue, purple, grey and white mountains with a light blue sky.
- Subject
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.03
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- Date
- 1944 – 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.04
- Description
- Unfinished sketch. Bottom half of lake and bushes are outline only. Trees are outlined in green and white, hills green and white mountains outlined in brown. Strokes of blue for the sky.
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- Title
- Wind Mountain
- Date
- 1944 – 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 50.8 cm
- Description
- Unfinished sketch. Bottom half of lake and bushes are outline only. Trees are outlined in green and white, hills green and white mountains outlined in brown. Strokes of blue for the sky.
- Subject
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.04
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- Date
- 1944 – 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.06
- Description
- Bottom half is the blue lake with relflection of mountains above. Lakeshore with trees extends to the left. Mountain glacier white and grey meets water in the centre of the painting. Evergreens to the lakeshore edge on the right.
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- Title
- Lake
- Date
- 1944 – 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 38.2 x 45.7 cm
- Description
- Bottom half is the blue lake with relflection of mountains above. Lakeshore with trees extends to the left. Mountain glacier white and grey meets water in the centre of the painting. Evergreens to the lakeshore edge on the right.
- Subject
- Canadian Rockies
- mountains
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.06
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- Date
- 1944 – 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.08
- Description
- brc is grey rocks, more than half the painting is the lake, blue with grey and white reflections. Top third is shoreline with mountain base in background. Evergreens dot the rocky shore on the left, evergreens up the the slope mid to right centre.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1944 – 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- brc is grey rocks, more than half the painting is the lake, blue with grey and white reflections. Top third is shoreline with mountain base in background. Evergreens dot the rocky shore on the left, evergreens up the the slope mid to right centre.
- Subject
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.08
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- Date
- 1944 – 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.15
- Description
- The central figure is a reclining deer on the bank of a small mountain lake in the forest. On either side of the deer are trees, some without leaves, a few evergreens and a small larch to the right. The lake is dark green and blue with light vegetation on the opposite side and a dark forest of ever…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1944 – 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 40.0 cm
- Description
- The central figure is a reclining deer on the bank of a small mountain lake in the forest. On either side of the deer are trees, some without leaves, a few evergreens and a small larch to the right. The lake is dark green and blue with light vegetation on the opposite side and a dark forest of evergreens behind.
- Subject
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- animal
- deer
- Credit
- Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.15
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- Date
- 1944 – 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.16
- Description
- Half of the painting is a brilliant blue lake with sunlit reflection slanting through. On the bottom of the painting mid-centre left there are three rocks with five small evergreens. The top half of the painting is forest, glacial silt and the rugged grey, blue and white mountain above.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1944 – 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 38.0 x 46.0 cm
- Description
- Half of the painting is a brilliant blue lake with sunlit reflection slanting through. On the bottom of the painting mid-centre left there are three rocks with five small evergreens. The top half of the painting is forest, glacial silt and the rugged grey, blue and white mountain above.
- Subject
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.02.16
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Reflection in Lake
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- Date
- 1944 – 1945
- Medium
- wax crayon on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.03.32
- Description
- The top three quarters of the picture is a mountain scene, with trees, rocks and three mountains. The foreground is a lake with the lower portion of the sccene reflected in the water.
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- Title
- Reflection in Lake
- Date
- 1944 – 1945
- Medium
- wax crayon on paper
- Dimensions
- 29.1 x 37.0 cm
- Description
- The top three quarters of the picture is a mountain scene, with trees, rocks and three mountains. The foreground is a lake with the lower portion of the sccene reflected in the water.
- Credit
- Purchased from Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper, 1989
- Catalogue Number
- DaK.03.32
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