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Lake Minnewanka and Mount Inglismaldie
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- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.02.01
- Description
- Colour: blue, green. The lower half is a lake with two people in a canoe right of center. A piece of land with evergreens comes out at the right side. The upper half is a mountain range. At the left side in the distance is another range. Above is clear blue sky.This painting was lent to the Winnipe…
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- Title
- Lake Minnewanka and Mount Inglismaldie
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 34.0 x 57.0 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, green. The lower half is a lake with two people in a canoe right of center. A piece of land with evergreens comes out at the right side. The upper half is a mountain range. At the left side in the distance is another range. Above is clear blue sky.This painting was lent to the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1975 to be included in the exhibition The Railway: A Patron of the Arts in Canada. The exhibition was circulated accross the country for two years.
- Credit
- Purchased from Red River Books, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.02.01
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Portrait of Dr. Brett
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcea.03.01
- Artist
- A.F. Cels
- Date
- 1907
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CeA.03.01
- Description
- General colour: black and white on yellow brown. The head of a man turned slightly left. He has a long mustache and his hair parts a little to the right of center.
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- Artist
- A.F. Cels
- Title
- Portrait of Dr. Brett
- Date
- 1907
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.6 x 15.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: black and white on yellow brown. The head of a man turned slightly left. He has a long mustache and his hair parts a little to the right of center.
- Subject
- portrait
- male
- Dr. R. G. Brett
- Credit
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Tabuteau, Banff, 1966
- Catalogue Number
- CeA.03.01
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Cascade Mountain 1908
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- Date
- 1908
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- CuJ.02.01
- Description
- General colour: green. Across the bottom is grass and then a lake with two boats on it; one in the center and one to the left in the distance. The far shore is one third up and gives way to a mountain. The peak is in the middle near the top. Sky is on both sides.
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- Title
- Cascade Mountain 1908
- Date
- 1908
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.3 x 43.2 cm
- Description
- General colour: green. Across the bottom is grass and then a lake with two boats on it; one in the center and one to the left in the distance. The far shore is one third up and gives way to a mountain. The peak is in the middle near the top. Sky is on both sides.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974
- Catalogue Number
- CuJ.02.01
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- Date
- 1909
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- CuJ.02.10
- Description
- General colour: green. In the lower left corner there is a road and a cabin with a woman in the doorway and smoke coming out of the chimney. The road goes over a bridge over a stream. To the right is a lake with two men on the shore and a sailboat in the center. The hills rise up beyond and mountai…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1909
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 51.2 x 81.4 cm
- Description
- General colour: green. In the lower left corner there is a road and a cabin with a woman in the doorway and smoke coming out of the chimney. The road goes over a bridge over a stream. To the right is a lake with two men on the shore and a sailboat in the center. The hills rise up beyond and mountains behind them. Small clouds drift across the sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974
- Catalogue Number
- CuJ.02.10
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Mount Temple with Bird
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- Date
- 1909
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- FeL.05.01
- Description
- Colour: brown, blue, grey. A bird perched on a rock, surrounded by wild flowers, fills the lower two thirds foreground. Behind are distant mountains and blue sky. The bird is a Grey Crown Rosy Finch
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- Title
- Mount Temple with Bird
- Date
- 1909
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 24.9 cm
- Description
- Colour: brown, blue, grey. A bird perched on a rock, surrounded by wild flowers, fills the lower two thirds foreground. Behind are distant mountains and blue sky. The bird is a Grey Crown Rosy Finch
- Subject
- bird
- Grey Crown Rosy Finch
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Hallock, Fort St. James, 1981
- Catalogue Number
- FeL.05.01
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- Artist
- Charles L Gibbs
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GiC.09.01
- Description
- Hard cover sketchbook Hudson & Kearns bookmakers, London. Each page has a graphite sketch of architectural details, buildings, statues, landscapes, most dated. First page has -Chas-L-Gibbs-1903-. Sketches are dated from May 31, 1903 to August 30, 1903, and contain sights from Italy, France, Swit…
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- Artist
- Charles L Gibbs
- Title
- Sketchbook
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 16.8 x 24.1 cm
- Description
- Hard cover sketchbook Hudson & Kearns bookmakers, London. Each page has a graphite sketch of architectural details, buildings, statues, landscapes, most dated. First page has -Chas-L-Gibbs-1903-. Sketches are dated from May 31, 1903 to August 30, 1903, and contain sights from Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. Front interior cover contains an inscription, which reads: Service held every year by British colny(?) at Brussels / Mr Brown gives ? ? every ? of June “ Back interior binding has “JL” written in pencil.
- Subject
- architecture
- urban
- rural
- landscape
- Europe
- Germany
- Italy
- France
- Switzerland
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Credit
- Gift of Iva (Mrs. Len) Smith, 1976
- Catalogue Number
- GiC.09.01
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- Date
- 1899 – 1919
- Medium
- ink and graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.09.01
- Description
- A small black book with various drawings and sketches of landscapes and people. On the flyleaf “Ernest C. W. Lamarque with Uncle Frank’s Love 20th Feb 1899”.Inside are annotations on most drawings of peoples names, places the drawing depict or the year.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1899 – 1919
- Medium
- ink and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 18.4 x 12.7 cm
- Description
- A small black book with various drawings and sketches of landscapes and people. On the flyleaf “Ernest C. W. Lamarque with Uncle Frank’s Love 20th Feb 1899”.Inside are annotations on most drawings of peoples names, places the drawing depict or the year.
- Subject
- landscape
- people
- Ernest Lamarque
- Credit
- Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.09.01
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- Date
- 1900 – 1965
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.03
- Description
- General colour: white, blue, orange, green on brown. A mountain with purple, blue and orange slopes on the left. A bank of green on the right and snow and rock face above and center. Vague blue and cream shadings in the sky.
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- Title
- Bow Glacier
- Date
- 1900 – 1965
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 24.0 x 30.4 cm
- Description
- General colour: white, blue, orange, green on brown. A mountain with purple, blue and orange slopes on the left. A bank of green on the right and snow and rock face above and center. Vague blue and cream shadings in the sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountains
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.03
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- Artist
- Katherine Longstaff Wedgwood
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WeK.05.01
- Description
- Camping scene of tents in forested area at 40 Mile Creek near Cascade Mountain. Smoke from fire on left of image.
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- Artist
- Katherine Longstaff Wedgwood
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 22 x 30.4 cm
- Description
- Camping scene of tents in forested area at 40 Mile Creek near Cascade Mountain. Smoke from fire on left of image.
- Credit
- Gift of Bobby Hunter, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- WeK.05.01
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- Date
- later than 1896
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PaW.03.01
- Description
- A stylized face surrounded by an ornamental floral and leave design. The mouth is open and laughing. Could be a design for a carved or molded door knocker.
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- later than 1896
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 29.0 x 36.5 cm
- Description
- A stylized face surrounded by an ornamental floral and leave design. The mouth is open and laughing. Could be a design for a carved or molded door knocker.
- Subject
- portrait, male
- architecture
- W.S Painter
- Credit
- Gift of W. (family) Painter, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- PaW.03.01
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- Artist
- Parr (1893 – 1969, Canadian)
- Date
- 1909
- Medium
- stonecut on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PaR.04.01
- Description
- General colour: black on white. Three hunters in kayaks line up one above the other on the right side facing left. Three walrus with harpoons stuck in them are stacked one above the next on the left side. At the bottom to the left is a bear.
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- Artist
- Parr (1893 – 1969, Canadian)
- Title
- Hunters
- Date
- 1909
- Medium
- stonecut on paper
- Dimensions
- 55.1 x 75.6 cm
- Description
- General colour: black on white. Three hunters in kayaks line up one above the other on the right side facing left. Three walrus with harpoons stuck in them are stacked one above the next on the left side. At the bottom to the left is a bear.
- Subject
- figure, male, animal, walrus
- bear
- hunting
- Credit
- Purchased from Quest, Banff, 1966
- Catalogue Number
- PaR.04.01
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- Artist
- N. A. Welby
- Title
- Sketch Book
- Date
- 1909
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 23.0 x 17.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1967
- Catalogue Number
- WeN.09.01
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- Artist
- C. H. Wood
- Date
- 1901
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WoC.02.01
- Description
- Colour: brown. Heads and forepaws of two lions - male and female, lying on straw.
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- Artist
- C. H. Wood
- Title
- Pair of Lions
- Date
- 1901
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50.2 x 72.6 cm
- Description
- Colour: brown. Heads and forepaws of two lions - male and female, lying on straw.
- Subject
- Bill Peyto
- animal
- lion
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Peyto, Shawnigan Lake, 1967
- Catalogue Number
- WoC.02.01
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1899
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.03.06
- Description
- Colour: black on white; a wounded bison with three arrows in his side and blood coming out of his mouth, kneels in the center of the picture;to the left and right are large leafless trees; a huge sun sits halfway on the horizon of rolling hills; in the background to the right, six figures with stic…
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Neolithic Age
- Date
- 1899
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 10.7 x 18.4 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white; a wounded bison with three arrows in his side and blood coming out of his mouth, kneels in the center of the picture;to the left and right are large leafless trees; a huge sun sits halfway on the horizon of rolling hills; in the background to the right, six figures with sticks run up from behind a tree; to the left, in the background are two bears.
- Subject
- animal, buffalo
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Iva (Mrs. Len) Smith, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.03.06
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Castle Mountain Siding
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- Artist
- C. Zollern
- Date
- 1895
- Medium
- watercolour; photograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ZoC.13.01
- Description
- Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in i…
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- Artist
- C. Zollern
- Title
- Castle Mountain Siding
- Date
- 1895
- Medium
- watercolour; photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 34.8 x 47.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in it on the right. On both sides of the river are trees and in the distance are mountains. Sky fills the top. The lower two pictures are photographs. The left is of the first Banff Springs Hotel and Rundle Mountain. The right is looking down the main street of Banff in 1895.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974
- Catalogue Number
- ZoC.13.01
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A Little Ditty Bird
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- Date
- c. 1895
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.023
- Description
- Drawing of a designed goblet standing fully in the center of the page. The area surrounding the goblet has been completely shaded in. The drawing au verso is a nose, ear, and hand study.“The dark background with the still darker goblet allowed Collings to achieve bright metallic-like highlights on …
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- Title
- A Little Ditty Bird
- Date
- c. 1895
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 19 x 12.5 cm
- Description
- Drawing of a designed goblet standing fully in the center of the page. The area surrounding the goblet has been completely shaded in. The drawing au verso is a nose, ear, and hand study.“The dark background with the still darker goblet allowed Collings to achieve bright metallic-like highlights on the embossed goblet. Barely visible, a tiny, whimsical “Ditty” bird peaks over the lip of the cup.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.023
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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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St. Paul's Church
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- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- BrD.02.01
- Description
- The church dominates the centre, bottom half of picture, green evergreen trees around it, behind the church is Mount Rundle, with some snow, the top third of the picture is sky, light indication of clouds, 2 men with red sweaters are walking across the street towards the church corner, the immedia…
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- Title
- St. Paul's Church
- Date
- 1985
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 243.8 x 91.4 cm
- Description
- The church dominates the centre, bottom half of picture, green evergreen trees around it, behind the church is Mount Rundle, with some snow, the top third of the picture is sky, light indication of clouds, 2 men with red sweaters are walking across the street towards the church corner, the immediate foreground is grey pavement.
- Credit
- Purchased from David Brown, 1987
- Catalogue Number
- BrD.02.01
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The Magic Teapot
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- Artist
- Katie Anderson
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- AnK.05.01
- Description
- Centered in the picture is a vertical rectangle in which is a steaming tea pot and cup and saucer, the steam turns into butterflies and books, trees and mountains in background, around the edge of this picture are other scenes, the sides show various kinds of cakes and cookies, top and bottom shows…
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- Artist
- Katie Anderson
- Title
- The Magic Teapot
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 38.0 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Centered in the picture is a vertical rectangle in which is a steaming tea pot and cup and saucer, the steam turns into butterflies and books, trees and mountains in background, around the edge of this picture are other scenes, the sides show various kinds of cakes and cookies, top and bottom shows shelves of books, each with a teacup.
- Subject
- mythological
- event
- Tea at the Whyte
- Credit
- Purchased from Katie Anderson, Canmore, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- AnK.05.01
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View of Beaver Pond
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- Date
- 1983
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BaB.12.01
- Description
- A blue/purple pond is in centre foreground, surrounded with brownish and green solid shapes. Green foliage, with some distinct trees, are over all the picture, mainly in top third with some distinct trees in immediate foreground. Five grey, stark trees are in center of picture, some more grey at ex…
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- Title
- View of Beaver Pond
- Date
- 1983
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Dimensions
- 77.5 x 57.3 cm
- Description
- A blue/purple pond is in centre foreground, surrounded with brownish and green solid shapes. Green foliage, with some distinct trees, are over all the picture, mainly in top third with some distinct trees in immediate foreground. Five grey, stark trees are in center of picture, some more grey at extreme bottom left.
- Credit
- Purchased from Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- BaB.12.01
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