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Jim White's House at Nash's Creek

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.148

Description: Colour: green, blue. Central image is a building with an addition on the back and two chimneys. There is grass in front. Trees behind to the left and one to the right in the distance. Pale blue sky is above.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Jim White's House at Nash's Creek

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27 x 21.9 cm

Description: Colour: green, blue. Central image is a building with an addition on the back and two chimneys. There is grass in front. Trees behind to the left and one to the right in the distance. Pale blue sky is above.

Subject: building, house; Peter Whyte

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.148

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The Waterfall Below Oesa

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.013

Description: Colour: blue, purple. In the lower half, a waterfall cascade over a rock cliff (left of center). Behind, purple mountains rise and blue sky with three clouds fill in the top.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: The Waterfall Below Oesa

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 76.5 x 63.5 cm

Description: Colour: blue, purple. In the lower half, a waterfall cascade over a rock cliff (left of center). Behind, purple mountains rise and blue sky with three clouds fill in the top.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; Peter Whyte

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.013

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

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Stoney Camp at Sunset

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.016

Description: Colour: grey, blue, green, orange. From each side teepees are situated; five on the left and eight on the right going into the distance to a point left of center, where the central space meets the hills behind. Groups of figures and dogs sit or stand around at the entrances to the teepees. There is…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Stoney Camp at Sunset

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 43 x 102 cm

Description: Colour: grey, blue, green, orange. From each side teepees are situated; five on the left and eight on the right going into the distance to a point left of center, where the central space meets the hills behind. Groups of figures and dogs sit or stand around at the entrances to the teepees. There is a larger group sitting in a circle at the lower edge in the center. The blue sky is heavy with streaks of orange and grey clouds filling the upper half of the picture.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; camp; figure; group; Peter Whyte

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.016

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

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Filling in the Bathtubs

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.029

Description: Colour: orange, green and blue on yellow and blue. Yellow slope covered with figures all carrying shovels. There are two paths coming down from the upper ridge at left. Both skiers at the end of the path are buried in snow. Two figures at the lower end of the right path are measuring the width of t…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Filling in the Bathtubs

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 100.1 x 74.6 cm

Description: Colour: orange, green and blue on yellow and blue. Yellow slope covered with figures all carrying shovels. There are two paths coming down from the upper ridge at left. Both skiers at the end of the path are buried in snow. Two figures at the lower end of the right path are measuring the width of the path. The sky is clear blue above where seven skiers stand waiting their turn.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; figure; group; activity; skiing; Peter Whyte

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.029

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Burial of Chief David Bearspaw

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.030

Description: Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Burial of Chief David Bearspaw

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 61.8 x 74.5 cm

Description: Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; figure; group; religious; funeral; Peter Whyte

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.030

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: painting on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.076

Description: An oil painting of fallen trees with a mountain portion backdrop. A broken tree trunk dominates the painting. In the background appears to be a mountain and beneath the broken trunk is grass and rocks. The loose wide brush strokes are visible and the colour palette consists primarily of blue, grey…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: painting on masonite

Dimensions: 29.1 x 24.2 cm

Description: An oil painting of fallen trees with a mountain portion backdrop. A broken tree trunk dominates the painting. In the background appears to be a mountain and beneath the broken trunk is grass and rocks. The loose wide brush strokes are visible and the colour palette consists primarily of blue, grey, white, brown, black and green. In the bottom rhc is the artist signature painted in red, “PETER WHYTE”.

Subject: landscape; tree; trunk; Peter Whyte

Credit: Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.076

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Peter Whyte

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Artist: Rudkin

Date: 1991

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: RuD.02.01

Description: A realistic rendering of Peter Whyte, he is facing to the left, eyes down, wearing a red striped shirt, blue tie and buckskin jacket, the background is various shades of blue

Artist: Rudkin

Title: Peter Whyte

Date: 1991

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.4 x 22.7 cm

Description: A realistic rendering of Peter Whyte, he is facing to the left, eyes down, wearing a red striped shirt, blue tie and buckskin jacket, the background is various shades of blue