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Watermill and Waterfall

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Artist: Unknown

Date: c. 1930

Medium: ink and colour on silk; card

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.03

Description: A watermill is in top right of picture, a stone basement, wooden building with a large waterwheel, a waterfall comes tumbling down from wheel; a grassy slope is in the foreground, lake in foreground; a waterfall tumbles down from left top of picture; the paper is gold trimmed; the foldover paper pr…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Watermill and Waterfall

Date: c. 1930

Medium: ink and colour on silk; card

Dimensions: 27.2 x 24.1 cm

Description: A watermill is in top right of picture, a stone basement, wooden building with a large waterwheel, a waterfall comes tumbling down from wheel; a grassy slope is in the foreground, lake in foreground; a waterfall tumbles down from left top of picture; the paper is gold trimmed; the foldover paper presentation cover has Japanese writing: Square Paper for Drawing/painting (translation by Maskao Tani, 8/86). A business card was enclosed in the case: printed: Tsunejiro Miyaoka; handwritten: To Mr. Jack White with kind remembrances, Banff.July 24th 1935.

Subject: landscape; waterfall

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.03

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Untitled

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Date: c. 1927

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.02

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1927

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 27.7 x 40.0 cm

Subject: portrait; male; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1976

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.02

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Lake O'Hara

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

Date: 1929 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas on cardboard

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.037

Description: Lake O'Hara is depicted in the foreground with reflections of trees from the shoreline in it.

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

Title: Lake O'Hara

Date: 1929 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas on cardboard

Dimensions: 15.9 x 19.1 cm

Description: Lake O'Hara is depicted in the foreground with reflections of trees from the shoreline in it.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Lake O’Hara

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.037

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Concord, Autumn

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

Date: 1927 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.042

Description: A large tree with golden brown foliage. In the background you see glimpses of a low lying valley with a possible lake or stream.

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

Title: Concord, Autumn

Date: 1927 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Description: A large tree with golden brown foliage. In the background you see glimpses of a low lying valley with a possible lake or stream.

Subject: landscape; Concord; season; Autumn

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.042

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Garden, Concord

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

Date: 1927 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.048

Description: Treed garden.

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

Title: Garden, Concord

Date: 1927 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Description: Treed garden.

Subject: landscape; botanical; trees

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.048

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Yoho Lake

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

Date: 1929 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.329

Description: Body of water in foreground, light brown-grey shore-line, solid area of trees behind which is a solid area of greys which appear to be rock.

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

Title: Yoho Lake

Date: 1929 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 11.0 x 14.2 cm

Description: Body of water in foreground, light brown-grey shore-line, solid area of trees behind which is a solid area of greys which appear to be rock.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.329

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Cathedral Mountain

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

Date: 1929 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.330

Description: Lower third of painting is green with trees, upper two thirds is purple hills and mountain which is orange and has a patch of white on right slope, the sky is light blue-grey.

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1929 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 13.4 x 15.0 cm

Description: Lower third of painting is green with trees, upper two thirds is purple hills and mountain which is orange and has a patch of white on right slope, the sky is light blue-grey.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.330

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Teepee Where Pete and Gardner stayed

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

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.346

Description: A cream coloured teepee with the opening on the right in a green area with many trees behind it.

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

Title: Teepee Where Pete and Gardner stayed

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.9 x 19.0 cm

Description: A cream coloured teepee with the opening on the right in a green area with many trees behind it.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; forest; camp

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.346

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Mount Rundle

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

Date: ca. 1930 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.260

Description: Looking east towards Rundle Mountain. In the right background is Mount Rundle with the sun illuminating it from the right. Shadowed areas are done in medium blue. The upper slopes are light grey (with touches of brick-red and ochre), while the lower slopes are green with an underpainting of blue. A…

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

Title: Mount Rundle

Date: ca. 1930 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.2 cm

Description: Looking east towards Rundle Mountain. In the right background is Mount Rundle with the sun illuminating it from the right. Shadowed areas are done in medium blue. The upper slopes are light grey (with touches of brick-red and ochre), while the lower slopes are green with an underpainting of blue. A patch of blue water can be seen in the lower right, behind the foreground trees. Some of the foreground trees have yellow foliage and others are pine trees. A large pine tree rises on the left side to cut off the bottom of Rundle's left slope. The sky is blue except for two white and grey clouds above the mountain.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.260

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Man's Portrait

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

Date: 1928 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.08

Description: A head and shoulders portrait of an elderly man. He is facing to the right showing a partial left profile. His hair is white, small glasses. Wearing a large light green jacket with and orange tie.

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

Title: Man's Portrait

Date: 1928 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 52.0 x 42.0 cm

Description: A head and shoulders portrait of an elderly man. He is facing to the right showing a partial left profile. His hair is white, small glasses. Wearing a large light green jacket with and orange tie.

Subject: portrait; male

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.08

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Man's Head and Torso

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

Date: 1928 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.10

Description: A portrait of a young man. He is facing to the right, has red hair and a mustache. His shoulders and arms are well defined, he is wearing a dark coloured belt. The background is dark blue. Unfinished near the bottom.

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

Title: Man's Head and Torso

Date: 1928 – 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.0 x 60.0 cm

Description: A portrait of a young man. He is facing to the right, has red hair and a mustache. His shoulders and arms are well defined, he is wearing a dark coloured belt. The background is dark blue. Unfinished near the bottom.