Narrow Results By
- Peter or Catharine Whyte 53
- Robin Sturdy (1946 – 1998, Canadian) 43
- Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian) 37
- Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian) 34
- Unknown
- Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)
- Patricia Askren (1951 – , American) 14
- Brian Joseph Grandbois 11
- Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian) 11
- Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)
- Reinhold H. Palenske (1884 – 1955, American) 10
- James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian) 5
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.03
- Description
- General colour: black, brown. Head and shoulders of a balding man who wears a shirt and tie under the vague outline of a suit and jacket. He looks out at the viewer and has a short mustache.
1 image
- Title
- John Brewster
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 56.8 x 43.9 cm
- Description
- General colour: black, brown. Head and shoulders of a balding man who wears a shirt and tie under the vague outline of a suit and jacket. He looks out at the viewer and has a short mustache.
- Credit
- Gift of Dell Brewster, Banff, 1967
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.03
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Portrait of an Indian
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdgn.04.01
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- colour reproduction on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.04.01
- Description
- General colour: pink, brown. The head and shoulders of an man with braids.Two or three feathers coming out at the right side of his head. He looks out, he wears a blanket over his shoulders and a neckpiece with medallion.
- Title
- Portrait of an Indian
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- colour reproduction on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.5 x 14.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: pink, brown. The head and shoulders of an man with braids.Two or three feathers coming out at the right side of his head. He looks out, he wears a blanket over his shoulders and a neckpiece with medallion.
- Subject
- portrait
- male
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Tabuteau, Banff, 1966
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.04.01
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Bringing Back a Lost Soul
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsts.04.01
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.01
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Central figure is kneeling, with the head of an ill man resting in his hands. Behind them are swirls of strange figures, their arms outstretched. Vestiges of former drawing visible.
1 image
- Title
- Bringing Back a Lost Soul
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.6 x 39.2 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Central figure is kneeling, with the head of an ill man resting in his hands. Behind them are swirls of strange figures, their arms outstretched. Vestiges of former drawing visible.
- Subject
- figure, group
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.01
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.02
- Description
- General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to e…
1 image
- Title
- The Contest
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.1 x 37.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to each side of the central image.Au verso: “THE CONTEST” tlhc “436” encircled, rhtc “K.6” (remaining number hidden by archival tape)brhc “12” encircled, below “30” encircled
- Credit
- Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.02
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
The First Step Beyond
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsts.03.02
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.03.02
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A cowering figure at centre is surrounded by three hands at the right (one hand becoming a face) and a large face and two black figures to the left and above.Au verso: THE FIRST STEP BEYOND
1 image
- Title
- The First Step Beyond
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.8 x 45.6 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A cowering figure at centre is surrounded by three hands at the right (one hand becoming a face) and a large face and two black figures to the left and above.Au verso: THE FIRST STEP BEYOND
- Subject
- figure, male
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
- Catalogue Number
- StS.03.02
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.02
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are …
1 image
- Title
- Ghost Dance
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 39.3 x 59.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are three wide round bands going across the picture.
- Subject
- figure, male
- group
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.02
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
The Man Who Outran the Deer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsts.05.03
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.03
- Description
- Colour: brown and white on yellow. Two small brown deer leap from viewer’s right two-thirds the way up. One antlered deer halts at the left side half way up. A running man wearing a loin cloth fills the centre space. His black hair with a feather in it flies out to the right.Au verso rhtc “111” en…
1 image
- Title
- The Man Who Outran the Deer
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: brown and white on yellow. Two small brown deer leap from viewer’s right two-thirds the way up. One antlered deer halts at the left side half way up. A running man wearing a loin cloth fills the centre space. His black hair with a feather in it flies out to the right.Au verso rhtc “111” encircled
- Subject
- figure, male
- animal, deer
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.03
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Only Buffaloes Can Call Buffaloes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsts.04.03
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.03
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Two figures wearing horned headresses, face left in the center. In a row behind them are five silouetted bison images looking like the figures. Above and below this are large and small images of a bison standing on his front legs. They all face right.
1 image
- Title
- Only Buffaloes Can Call Buffaloes
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.6 x 39.2 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Two figures wearing horned headresses, face left in the center. In a row behind them are five silouetted bison images looking like the figures. Above and below this are large and small images of a bison standing on his front legs. They all face right.
- Subject
- figure, male
- animal, buffalo
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.03
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.04
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A face with long black hair is approached on either side by other faces. The lower one is in profile and the hair turns into an arm with a hand pointing up. The upper face is turned out and has a wild expression.A bird's beak comes out at the left side of this face. Three mo…
1 image
- Title
- Spirits Talk
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.6 x 39.2 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A face with long black hair is approached on either side by other faces. The lower one is in profile and the hair turns into an arm with a hand pointing up. The upper face is turned out and has a wild expression.A bird's beak comes out at the left side of this face. Three more bird heads appear up the left side and one in the lower right corner. In the upper right there is a large swirled shape.
- Subject
- portrait, male
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.04
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Squirrel Lover
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsts.03.06
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- felt pen on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.03.06
- Description
- Colour: orange, red and black on white. A man sits at viewer’s left holding his hand over his heart. Right of centre behind some trees is a wigwam with a black and white figure at the entrance. Orange squirrel tracks are visible in the front of the wigwam and to the right behingd a squirrel sits on…
1 image
- Title
- Squirrel Lover
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- felt pen on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 35.1 cm
- Description
- Colour: orange, red and black on white. A man sits at viewer’s left holding his hand over his heart. Right of centre behind some trees is a wigwam with a black and white figure at the entrance. Orange squirrel tracks are visible in the front of the wigwam and to the right behingd a squirrel sits on a branch. To the right of this a woman kneeling with hair and hands covering her face. A bird with its beak open flies underneath.Au verso SQUIRREL LOVER printed viewer’s top rhc “K.65” brhc “40” encircled and on top of that “1” encircled
- Subject
- figure, male
- female
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- StS.03.06
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
To The Morning
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsts.05.04
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.04
- Description
- Colour: brown, red, blue, black on yellow. A bare-breasted woman with a baby in a cradleboard on her back strides towards the viewer’s left side of the painting. A black dog, with his red tongue hanging out, follows the high top moccasins in her left hand. She carries a white shawl in her right han…
1 image
- Title
- To The Morning
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: brown, red, blue, black on yellow. A bare-breasted woman with a baby in a cradleboard on her back strides towards the viewer’s left side of the painting. A black dog, with his red tongue hanging out, follows the high top moccasins in her left hand. She carries a white shawl in her right hand and wears a blue, red, green and white skirt. A smaller image of the woman and the dog are seen in the red oval which sits right of center on the red horizon line.Au verso: “TO THE MORNING”
- Subject
- figure, female
- animal, dog
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.04
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.83
- Description
- A free standing block on which are carved two faces each side (front and back) the whalebone is a mottled colour and irregular in texture, one side the larger face is on top, other side the larger face is on the bottom, each expression is different, the features are stylized but distinct.
1 image
- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Dimensions
- 36.0 x 11.0 x 22.0 cm
- Description
- A free standing block on which are carved two faces each side (front and back) the whalebone is a mottled colour and irregular in texture, one side the larger face is on top, other side the larger face is on the bottom, each expression is different, the features are stylized but distinct.
- Subject
- mythological
- faces
- Credit
- Purchased from Quest, Banff, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.83
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Untitled [Seated Japanese man]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactunk.06.11
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- sculpture
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.11
- Description
- Hotei (one of seven gods of Bliss) sits on the ground holding a basket with a smile on his roly poly face. Both hands are holding onto the basket and consequently folded across his chest. The colour of the figure is a very dark colour with hints of red-brown where the light hits it.
1 image
- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled [Seated Japanese man]
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 10.7 cm
- Description
- Hotei (one of seven gods of Bliss) sits on the ground holding a basket with a smile on his roly poly face. Both hands are holding onto the basket and consequently folded across his chest. The colour of the figure is a very dark colour with hints of red-brown where the light hits it.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.11
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.09
- Description
- A portrait of a Earl Gammon with grey hair and slightly smiling. He is wearing a dark suit jacket which is only partially coloured in. He is also wearing a white shirt and red bow tie. He has a light green handkerchief in his pocket. The same light green colour surrounds his head. The man is visi…
1 image
- Title
- Earl Gammon
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 60.0 x 44.0 cm
- Description
- A portrait of a Earl Gammon with grey hair and slightly smiling. He is wearing a dark suit jacket which is only partially coloured in. He is also wearing a white shirt and red bow tie. He has a light green handkerchief in his pocket. The same light green colour surrounds his head. The man is visible from the chest up. The paper is yellowish.
- Subject
- portrait
- male
- Earl Gammon
- Credit
- Gift of Doris Gammon, Banff, 2000
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.09
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Untitled [Sacred Owl]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdgn.03.10
- Date
- c. 1950
- Medium
- pastel on sandpaper
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.10
- Description
- Pastel portrait of a First Nations man who is facing toward the left of the piece. The man is resting his face on his hand and he is visible from only the neck up. On his head he is wearing a red kerchief. His hair is in two braids, the one on the left of his head is only slightly visible, the o…
1 image
- Title
- Untitled [Sacred Owl]
- Date
- c. 1950
- Medium
- pastel on sandpaper
- Dimensions
- 37.5 x 27.5 cm
- Description
- Pastel portrait of a First Nations man who is facing toward the left of the piece. The man is resting his face on his hand and he is visible from only the neck up. On his head he is wearing a red kerchief. His hair is in two braids, the one on the left of his head is only slightly visible, the one on the right is completely visible. He is wearing a blue scarf or tie around his neck. Identified by Rod Green at Masters Gallery as Sacred Owl.
- Subject
- portrait
- male
- Sacred Owl
- Credit
- Gift of Caroline Harris-Andrews, Kingston, 2002
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.10
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.06
- Description
- ornately carved ivory sculpture of a man and a bird under a tree.
1 image
- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- The Bird Tree
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Dimensions
- 20.8 x 4.7 x 10.0 cm
- Description
- ornately carved ivory sculpture of a man and a bird under a tree.
- Subject
- figure, male
- animal
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.06
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Totem Pole
- Date
- later than 1900
- Dimensions
- 29.5 x 7.0 x 17.0 cm
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.08
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1945
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.04
1 image
- Title
- Guy Thomas
- Date
- 1945
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 43 x 30 cm
- Subject
- portrait
- male
- Guy Thomas
- Credit
- Gift of Sonia de Grandmaison, West Vancouver, 1980
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.04
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1950
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.02.02
1 image
- Title
- Norman Luxton
- Date
- 1950
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 75 x 55 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Sonia de Grandmaison, West Vancouver, 1980
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.02.02
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- felt marker on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.03.08
- Description
- One central large facial image (on top of which is an arm and smaller face) under which is a beak and eye of a bird, two hands and a third and final facial image below that in the shape of a C off centre to the viewer’s left bottom. Vestiges of former drawing showing through.Au verso: “CLOUDS” brhc…
1 image
- Title
- Clouds
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- felt marker on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.8 x 45.6 cm
- Description
- One central large facial image (on top of which is an arm and smaller face) under which is a beak and eye of a bird, two hands and a third and final facial image below that in the shape of a C off centre to the viewer’s left bottom. Vestiges of former drawing showing through.Au verso: “CLOUDS” brhc encircled “35” topped by encircled “6”
- Subject
- face, human
- animal, bird
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- StS.03.08
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.