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Noble Ladies in Tokugawa Era

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Date: 1895

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.06 a-c

Description: This triptych features three women: one per panel. In the first panel is a woman standing holding a rope which is cut of by the edge of paper. Her head is facing right and down looking into the second panel where the rope she is holding is attached to a cart. This cart contains a very large bask…

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Title: Noble Ladies in Tokugawa Era

Date: 1895

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 36.0 x 71.25 cm

Description: This triptych features three women: one per panel. In the first panel is a woman standing holding a rope which is cut of by the edge of paper. Her head is facing right and down looking into the second panel where the rope she is holding is attached to a cart. This cart contains a very large basket of flowers, and a women is crouching down by the cart holding a beautiful red scarf. The carts wheel goes into the third panel where a woman holding a small child stands. This woman’s body is facing towards the right, but her head turned down and to the left to view the cart. There is no background in any of the scenes, except for a blossoming tree behind the cart.

Subject: group; figures; female; activity; summer

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

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.06 a-c

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Evening Mt. Fuji During the Upward Wind

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Date: 1895

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.08 a-c

Description: This triptych features four women spread across three panels with Mt. Fuji softly in the background. A stretch of bushes separated the women from the background and is mostly grey. The lone Mt. Fuji is the only background with paper tone behind it. In the first panel Mt. Fuji starts and two wome…

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Title: Evening Mt. Fuji During the Upward Wind

Date: 1895

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 37 x 72 cm

Description: This triptych features four women spread across three panels with Mt. Fuji softly in the background. A stretch of bushes separated the women from the background and is mostly grey. The lone Mt. Fuji is the only background with paper tone behind it. In the first panel Mt. Fuji starts and two women stand with their bodies facing eachother. The smaller woman is pointing at Mt. Fuji. In the second panel a woman stands in the rc, her body facing right and her head turned back to the left. She has her back to the mountain which is mostly featured in the second panel. In the third panel a woman sits on a bench facing left with her hand by her chest. A lamp is to the left of her bench. The ground the woman are on is mostly paper tone with a light wash.

Subject: figures; woman; landscape; mountain; Mt. Fuji

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

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.08 a-c

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Untitled [Ceremony]

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Date: 1895

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.11 a-c

Description: This scene features a ceremony. The background and floor have no colour. The first panel has a screen depicting a tree in the tlc which reaches half way into the print. Three women sit on the right side of the screen, one moving into the second panel. A woman kneeling holding a bowl takes up th…

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Title: Untitled [Ceremony]

Date: 1895

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 35.5 x 72.5 cm

Description: This scene features a ceremony. The background and floor have no colour. The first panel has a screen depicting a tree in the tlc which reaches half way into the print. Three women sit on the right side of the screen, one moving into the second panel. A woman kneeling holding a bowl takes up the second panel and a portion of the first. She kneels before a woman sitting in the third panel on a raised surface. Beside her sits, below the raised surface, another woman facing left. A screen is visible in the trc.

Subject: Activity; Gathering; Figures; Women

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

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.11 a-c

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Boating Under Cherry Blossoms

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Date: 1896

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.12 a-c

Description: This triptych features 6 woman on a boat. The boat emerges from the third panel behind a group of rocks. Coming from this group of rocks in the trc is a tree with white blossoms which hangs over the boat, and into the second panel. The boat stretches through the second panel and ends with a sharp…

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Title: Boating Under Cherry Blossoms

Date: 1896

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 37.0 x 73.0 cm

Description: This triptych features 6 woman on a boat. The boat emerges from the third panel behind a group of rocks. Coming from this group of rocks in the trc is a tree with white blossoms which hangs over the boat, and into the second panel. The boat stretches through the second panel and ends with a sharp tip halfway into the first panel. The women are all in the second and third panels. 5 women are sitting under a covered top, and one woman is standing outside of this covered top with her hand on the ceiling, and her head turned to the left. The sky is uncoloured, and there are 2 birds flying in the first panel.

Subject: Activity; Boating; Figures; Women

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

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.12 a-c

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Changing of Robes, Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Date: 1896

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.01 a-c

Description: (a)standing female figure, dressed in red kimono, holding a black box, in front of what appears to be a vanity table with mirror, artist's marks in the lower left hand corner (b) 36.9 x 25.3/35.5x23.7 kneeling female figure dressed in black kimono is helping another standing female figure adjust he…

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Title: Changing of Robes, Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)

Date: 1896

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 36 x 25 cm

Description: (a)standing female figure, dressed in red kimono, holding a black box, in front of what appears to be a vanity table with mirror, artist's marks in the lower left hand corner (b) 36.9 x 25.3/35.5x23.7 kneeling female figure dressed in black kimono is helping another standing female figure adjust her kimono, which is patterned with fans (c) 36.8x25.2/35.523.6 kneeling female figure in dark blue flowing kimono looking over her right shoulder, folding what appears to be a bed quilt, artist's marks in the lower right hand corner, and calligraphy in the upper right hand corner (a)(b) and (c) are a triptych, and all have a light background of scattered flowers

Subject: figure; female; group

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

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.01 a-c

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Untitled [Gathering]

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Date: 1896

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.02 a-e

Description: (a)three kneeling ladies in flowing kimonos (b) 37.1x25.3/36.1x23.9 three kneeling ladies in flowing kimonos,two small tables with tall decorated objects are placed in front of the ladies in the lower portion of the image (c)37.0x25.1/36.0x24.0 woman in silver/white kimono with pink/orange lining …

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Title: Untitled [Gathering]

Date: 1896

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 37.0 x 25.3 cm

Description: (a)three kneeling ladies in flowing kimonos (b) 37.1x25.3/36.1x23.9 three kneeling ladies in flowing kimonos,two small tables with tall decorated objects are placed in front of the ladies in the lower portion of the image (c)37.0x25.1/36.0x24.0 woman in silver/white kimono with pink/orange lining kneeling in front of several small tables set with foodstuffs (d) 36.0x25.2/35.7x24.1 two ladies, one kneeling, the other standing holding a small table with ceremonial sake cups, behind them are tables set with food items for feast (e) 36.8x25.1/36.3x24.5 a male in blue robes sits behind the feast tables with a lady kneeling in the foreground. The panel of thewoman is sliver is the focal point, with the gaze of the ladies and the man in the other panels directed towards her.

Subject: figure;group;female;male

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

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.02 a-e

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Fire at the Castle, Life from the Inner Most Court of Chiyoda Castle

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Date: 1896

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.04 a-c

Description: (a) lady dressed in a black kimono carries a paper lantern and long sword, there is a tall column of smoke behind her, above the roof tops, and shadowy figures (b) 37.4 x 25.7/36.0 x 24.1 two ladies, one mounted on a white horse, the other holding the horse and a long sword in her other hand, both …

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Title: Fire at the Castle, Life from the Inner Most Court of Chiyoda Castle

Date: 1896

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 37 x 25 cm

Description: (a) lady dressed in a black kimono carries a paper lantern and long sword, there is a tall column of smoke behind her, above the roof tops, and shadowy figures (b) 37.4 x 25.7/36.0 x 24.1 two ladies, one mounted on a white horse, the other holding the horse and a long sword in her other hand, both are dressed in black kimonos and wearing tall conical black hats (c) 37.7 x 25.7/35.9 x 24.5 three ladies dressed in black kimonos with tall black hats are all holding long swords, and one has a paper lantern. Horses were brought to Japan from North China and Mongolia.

Subject: figure; group; female; animal; horse

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

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.04 a-c

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True Beautiful Woman

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Date: 1897

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.05 a-c

Description: (a) a woman holding an oval fan, wearing a sombre kimono and glancing over her right shoulder, her hair is loose and appears to be wet (b) 37.2 x 25.0/30.2 x 21.1 a woman wearing a grey patterned kimono with red lining at the sleeves, and multi-coloured sash, she is well-coiffed and made-up (c) A …

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Title: True Beautiful Woman

Date: 1897

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 37 x 25 cm

Description: (a) a woman holding an oval fan, wearing a sombre kimono and glancing over her right shoulder, her hair is loose and appears to be wet (b) 37.2 x 25.0/30.2 x 21.1 a woman wearing a grey patterned kimono with red lining at the sleeves, and multi-coloured sash, she is well-coiffed and made-up (c) A waist-up portrait of Japanese lady and baby. She wears a patterned mauve kimono with red sash, under dress and red comb and tassel in her hair; also a white flower in her hair. She is holding either a doll or a baby that is dressed in a green kimono with red under-kimono.

Subject: figure, female

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

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.05 a-c

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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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Ki ippogan

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Date: 1890

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.15

Description: A group of six women dressed in kimonos are surrounded by large leafy taro plants. They are and are reacting to a woman falling on the right side of the image. The background left and right is decorated with silhouettes of trees. There are signatures or markings at the bottom right and the upper le…

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Title: Ki ippogan

Date: 1890

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 35.5 x 70 cm

Description: A group of six women dressed in kimonos are surrounded by large leafy taro plants. They are and are reacting to a woman falling on the right side of the image. The background left and right is decorated with silhouettes of trees. There are signatures or markings at the bottom right and the upper left.

Subject: women; Japanese; vegetation

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

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.15

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Untitled

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

Date: 1916 – 1916

Medium: pastel

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.003

Description: Main image is of a house amidst a copse of pine trees, with rolling hills in the background. A road leads up to the main house and then branches off to head towards another small building in the distance (on left side) with two pine trees. The bottom third has been lightly coloured green to intim…

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

Title: Untitled

Date: 1916 – 1916

Medium: pastel

Dimensions: 22.5 x 30.5 cm

Description: Main image is of a house amidst a copse of pine trees, with rolling hills in the background. A road leads up to the main house and then branches off to head towards another small building in the distance (on left side) with two pine trees. The bottom third has been lightly coloured green to intimate grass.On back: “Catharine Robb 1916”

Subject: landscape; house; home; trees

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.003

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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