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Molar Pass

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.09

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of …

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Molar Pass

Date: 1929

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 34.2 x 41.8 cm

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of blue at the upper left of center edge.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.09

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

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Mount Barnard

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Date: 1922

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ThM.05.02

Description: Colour: white, blue, pink, green. Looking from a glacier across a wide plain.Blowing snow obscures a distant snowy peak.

Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Title: Mount Barnard

Date: 1922

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 13.5 x 22.5 cm

Description: Colour: white, blue, pink, green. Looking from a glacier across a wide plain.Blowing snow obscures a distant snowy peak.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of anonymous, 1971

Catalogue Number: ThM.05.02

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Freshfield Group

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Date: 1922

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ThM.05.01

Description: General colour: white, blue, purple. A distant mountain skyline with dotted routes marked on the right and at center. The name of each peak is marked at the end of a line which comes down perpendicular to the mountains, from the sky which is blue except for couds hanging just above the peaks.

Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Title: Freshfield Group

Date: 1922

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 37.5 x 24.5 cm

Description: General colour: white, blue, purple. A distant mountain skyline with dotted routes marked on the right and at center. The name of each peak is marked at the end of a line which comes down perpendicular to the mountains, from the sky which is blue except for couds hanging just above the peaks.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of anonymous, 1971

Catalogue Number: ThM.05.01

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Burl Face

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Artist: Ebenezer William Peyto (1869 – 1943, Canadian)

Date: c. 1925

Catalogue Number: PyB.06.02

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Artist: Ebenezer William Peyto (1869 – 1943, Canadian)

Title: Burl Face

Date: c. 1925

Dimensions: 55.0 x 20.0 x 20.0 cm

Subject: portrait

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

Catalogue Number: PyB.06.02

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Illustrations

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Artist: Edmee Moore (1908 – 1971, Canadian)

Date: c. 1928

Medium: poster paint on board

Catalogue Number: MoE.11.01

Description: These illustrations were part of Edmee Moore's (daughter of Col. & Mrs. Pearl Moore) training at art school. It is difficult to ascertain which school they were done at, as Edmee attended schools in Boston, New York, Chicago and London, while accompanying her parents on her father's lecture tours f…

Artist: Edmee Moore (1908 – 1971, Canadian)

Title: Illustrations

Date: c. 1928

Medium: poster paint on board

Dimensions: 23.0;66.0 x 27.6;46.0 cm

Description: These illustrations were part of Edmee Moore's (daughter of Col. & Mrs. Pearl Moore) training at art school. It is difficult to ascertain which school they were done at, as Edmee attended schools in Boston, New York, Chicago and London, while accompanying her parents on her father's lecture tours for the C.P.R.

Subject: figure; still life

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: MoE.11.01

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Untitled [pack horse]

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: c. 1930

Medium: plaster

Catalogue Number: BeC.06.03

Description: This horse is brown in colour and has a red horse blanket and light coloured pack on it’s back. The horse has a light coloured nose and patch extending up between it’s eyes. The horses legs are white with a small black section just before the colour turnes to brown nearing the top portion of the a…

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [pack horse]

Date: c. 1930

Medium: plaster

Dimensions: 24.8 x n/a x 32.5 cm

Description: This horse is brown in colour and has a red horse blanket and light coloured pack on it’s back. The horse has a light coloured nose and patch extending up between it’s eyes. The horses legs are white with a small black section just before the colour turnes to brown nearing the top portion of the all of the horses legs. The horse’s tail is black.This is one of only two castings of this horse. The other belongs to E.S. Newbury, Lowell Road, Concord, Mass.

Subject: animal, horse

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

Catalogue Number: BeC.06.03

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Young Lady

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Artist: Gottfried Kappen

Date: c. 1930

Catalogue Number: KaG.06.01

Description: The young lady is Heidi Lohr. Her husband commissioned the work around 1930. The artist Kappen fled East Germany before World War II.

Artist: Gottfried Kappen

Title: Young Lady

Date: c. 1930

Dimensions: 42 x 17 x 23 cm

Description: The young lady is Heidi Lohr. Her husband commissioned the work around 1930. The artist Kappen fled East Germany before World War II.

Subject: bust; female; Heidi Lohr

Credit: Gift of Heidi Lohr, Banff, 1981

Catalogue Number: KaG.06.01

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Pianist

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Artist: H. L. Stratton

Date: 1923

Medium: watercolour; ink on paper board

Catalogue Number: StH.05.01

Description: Almost blacked out pianist scene. Black background and piano, black suit on pianist. Only light areas on head and hands of pianist. Initialled .HLS.23. in pencil brc, pencilled on back Stratton 383W57 St..

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Artist: H. L. Stratton

Title: Pianist

Date: 1923

Medium: watercolour; ink on paper board

Dimensions: 20.5 x 19.7 cm

Description: Almost blacked out pianist scene. Black background and piano, black suit on pianist. Only light areas on head and hands of pianist. Initialled .HLS.23. in pencil brc, pencilled on back Stratton 383W57 St..

Subject: figure, male

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

Catalogue Number: StH.05.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Leonard Moore Davis (1864 – 1938, American)

Date: 1927

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: DaL.05.01

Description: A mountain peak dominates the centre, right side in shadow, tinges of pink top left of mountain. Mountain range left background. Left foreground and right foreground indicate green hillsides. Sky is light blue with a few patches of white top right.

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Artist: Leonard Moore Davis (1864 – 1938, American)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1927

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 8.2 x 11.3 cm

Description: A mountain peak dominates the centre, right side in shadow, tinges of pink top left of mountain. Mountain range left background. Left foreground and right foreground indicate green hillsides. Sky is light blue with a few patches of white top right.

Subject: landscape; mountains

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: DaL.05.01

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Teepees

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928 – 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.448

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Teepees

Date: 1928 – 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains; Indigenous; teepee

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.448

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Spruce Forest

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.483

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Spruce Forest

Date: 1928 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.3 x 34.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; forest

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.483

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Mount Rundle from near Brett Sanitarium

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.488

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mount Rundle from near Brett Sanitarium

Date: 1928 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.488

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Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929 – 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.491

Description: Possibly the sketch for WyP.02.001See WyP.01.204

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake O'Hara

Date: 1929 – 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.4 x 30.4 cm

Description: Possibly the sketch for WyP.02.001See WyP.01.204

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.491

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Yoho

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928 – 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.496

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Yoho

Date: 1928 – 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.7 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.496

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Yoho Park

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.499

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Yoho Park

Date: 1928 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 22.6 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.499

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Sherbrook Peak

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928 – 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.500

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Sherbrook Peak

Date: 1928 – 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.8 x 35.4 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.500

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Old Saints, Church Street

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1925

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.26

Description: blc is a woman in a long red dress and white apron and green shawl. She is carrying something and going to meet a young girl on a sidewalk. Crossing the street lower mid-centre is a man in brown and young girl in pink. There are buildings to the left and right of street, trees at the end. Most of t…

Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Old Saints, Church Street

Date: 1925

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 26.5 x 35.6 cm

Description: blc is a woman in a long red dress and white apron and green shawl. She is carrying something and going to meet a young girl on a sidewalk. Crossing the street lower mid-centre is a man in brown and young girl in pink. There are buildings to the left and right of street, trees at the end. Most of the buildings appear to be homes but you can see a square castle or church spire poking out mid-centre. Cloudy sky. Street is in shadow from the right.

Subject: urban; building; church; figure; people

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.26

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Cultus Creek

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Artist: Charles Morrise Brousson ( – 1941)

Date: 1920

Medium: oil on wood

Catalogue Number: BrC.02.01

Description: A primitive painting on a piece of wood. The foreground is beige and brown bank with a white and brown tepee on the left. Beyond this the creek, blue and white extends to mid centre. The top half of the painting is a slope covered with trees to left and a mountain, blue, white and green, to the ri…

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Artist: Charles Morrise Brousson ( – 1941)

Title: Cultus Creek

Date: 1920

Medium: oil on wood

Dimensions: 10.5 x 15.1 cm

Description: A primitive painting on a piece of wood. The foreground is beige and brown bank with a white and brown tepee on the left. Beyond this the creek, blue and white extends to mid centre. The top half of the painting is a slope covered with trees to left and a mountain, blue, white and green, to the right. A cloudy grey sky.