Search Results - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Hecate Strait From Sandspit

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlae.05.08

Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.08

Description: General colour: brown, green, blue. Foreground beach is covered with logs and continues up the right side to a point with fall evergreens on it. The green water fills the central area. Distant blue hills come out at the right from behind the trees. The sky is grey blue.

1 image

Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Hecate Strait From Sandspit

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 33.3 x 46.9 cm

Description: General colour: brown, green, blue. Foreground beach is covered with logs and continues up the right side to a point with fall evergreens on it. The green water fills the central area. Distant blue hills come out at the right from behind the trees. The sky is grey blue.

Subject: landscape; sea; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.08

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Untitled

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlae.05.15

Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1961

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.15

Description: General colour: green, blue. In the lower half are five figures to the left and a stand of teepee poles to the right. Across the middle are five buildings. Behind them are trees, mountains in the distance and blue grey sky above. Signed lr: “E. Lamarque 1961”

1 image

Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1961

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 35.5 x 50.1 cm

Description: General colour: green, blue. In the lower half are five figures to the left and a stand of teepee poles to the right. Across the middle are five buildings. Behind them are trees, mountains in the distance and blue grey sky above. Signed lr: “E. Lamarque 1961”

Subject: landscape; mountains; architecture, rural; figure, group; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.15

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Untitled

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactnij.03.05

Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1986

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.05

Description: Colour: black on white. Four trees stand at the bottom left of center. Beyond are hills and mountains clear sky across the upper third.

Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1986

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 26.5 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. Four trees stand at the bottom left of center. Beyond are hills and mountains clear sky across the upper third.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.05

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Untitled

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactnij.03.06

Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1986

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.06

Description: Colour: black on white. Lower third is bare slope - no markings. The upper two thirds are rock cliffs leaning to the right. Clear sky is in the upper left corner.

Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1986

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 26.5 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. Lower third is bare slope - no markings. The upper two thirds are rock cliffs leaning to the right. Clear sky is in the upper left corner.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.06

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Boats in Harbour, 1963

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactphw.05.03

Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1963

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.05.03

Description: Colour: grey, brown, green. The lower two thirds is calm grey water in which a row of four boats is reflected. The boats fill the upper third. The second boat from the left is called Symphony II.

1 image

Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Boats in Harbour, 1963

Date: 1963

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 41.6 x 45.0 cm

Description: Colour: grey, brown, green. The lower two thirds is calm grey water in which a row of four boats is reflected. The boats fill the upper third. The second boat from the left is called Symphony II.

Subject: ocean; boats

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1969

Catalogue Number: PhW.05.03

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

South from Palliser Pass

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsij.05.06

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1961

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.06

Description: Colour: green, blue. Foreground is shrubs and trees sloping down to the center. A bank of trees rises up on the right and further in the distance to the left as well. The valley leads to mountains up center. The sky across the top is yellow at the left and blue at the right.

1 image

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: South from Palliser Pass

Date: 1961

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 19.1 x 24.2 cm

Description: Colour: green, blue. Foreground is shrubs and trees sloping down to the center. A bank of trees rises up on the right and further in the distance to the left as well. The valley leads to mountains up center. The sky across the top is yellow at the left and blue at the right.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; pass

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1967

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.06

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Untitled

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsij.05.07

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.07

Description: Colour: Blue, brown, yellow. Hooking down into a valley which goes from the lower left corner to the middle right area. The treed mountain side rises up on the right side. In the distance above the snow in the upper left area are two mountain peaks. The sky is yellow to pink brown to blue from righ…

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1969

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.9 x 30.5 cm

Description: Colour: Blue, brown, yellow. Hooking down into a valley which goes from the lower left corner to the middle right area. The treed mountain side rises up on the right side. In the distance above the snow in the upper left area are two mountain peaks. The sky is yellow to pink brown to blue from right to left.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; water

Credit: Purchased from Unknown, 1970

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.07

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

The Cook, Louis Hill, and old dog Dooley

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsij.05.08

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.08

Description: Colour: blue, green. A figure and a dog stand by a fire over which are hanging two pots - left of center. Right is a tent and surrounding this in the front is snow and behind snow and trees.

1 image

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: The Cook, Louis Hill, and old dog Dooley

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 16.5 x 11.4 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green. A figure and a dog stand by a fire over which are hanging two pots - left of center. Right is a tent and surrounding this in the front is snow and behind snow and trees.

Subject: figure; man; animal; dog; activity; cooking; winter

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

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.08

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Untitled

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsij.05.10

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.10

Description: Colour: blue, brown, yellow. mountain slopes leaning to the right. In the lower center is a clump of shrubs. Blue sky in the upper half has a yellow patch left of center.

1 image

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 8.3 x 15.1 cm

Description: Colour: blue, brown, yellow. mountain slopes leaning to the right. In the lower center is a clump of shrubs. Blue sky in the upper half has a yellow patch left of center.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.10

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Untitled

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsij.05.11

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.11

Description: Colour: blue, green, white. Snow covered trees are in the foreground center and to the right. Three trees in the background at the left side. Green sky is in the upper left corner.

1 image

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 11.2 x 16.5 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green, white. Snow covered trees are in the foreground center and to the right. Three trees in the background at the left side. Green sky is in the upper left corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; forest; winter

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.11

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Untitled

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlim.03.04

Artist: Mignon Fox Linck

Date: c. 1966

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: LiM.03.04

Description: A range of mountains dominates the centre width of picture, behind them is a dark sky with clouds; in the foreground a packtrain is moving from bottom right to centre on the valley floor. Pencil notations on left edge of paper.

Artist: Mignon Fox Linck

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1966

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 9.5 x 27.5 cm

Description: A range of mountains dominates the centre width of picture, behind them is a dark sky with clouds; in the foreground a packtrain is moving from bottom right to centre on the valley floor. Pencil notations on left edge of paper.

Subject: landscape, mountains; animal, horse; packtrain

Credit: Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1986

Catalogue Number: LiM.03.04

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Northwest Ridge of North Twin

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlim.03.03

Artist: Mignon Fox Linck

Date: 1966

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: LiM.03.03

Description: A mountain range in background, clouds hanging over mountains; flat valley bottom, could be a lake, evergreen trees line edge of valley/lake on right centre. Crop lines and 44%; page 104. On back AAJ 1966. P. 104. American Alpine Journal.

Artist: Mignon Fox Linck

Title: Northwest Ridge of North Twin

Date: 1966

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.2 cm

Description: A mountain range in background, clouds hanging over mountains; flat valley bottom, could be a lake, evergreen trees line edge of valley/lake on right centre. Crop lines and 44%; page 104. On back AAJ 1966. P. 104. American Alpine Journal.

Subject: landscape, mountains; river

Credit: Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1986

Catalogue Number: LiM.03.03

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Stream Coming from Peyto Lake

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsij.05.40

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.40

Description: A blue/green stream is centre bottom and dissappears in centre of picture; autumn colours on both banks; evergreen trees also both banks; mountains in background centre of picture; cloudy sky; brc inked markings appears to have been signed and dated then inked out; inscription on brc of mat: Happy …

1 image

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Stream Coming from Peyto Lake

Date: 1962

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 14.0 x 18.0 cm

Description: A blue/green stream is centre bottom and dissappears in centre of picture; autumn colours on both banks; evergreen trees also both banks; mountains in background centre of picture; cloudy sky; brc inked markings appears to have been signed and dated then inked out; inscription on brc of mat: Happy Xmas & Happy New Year from Simpson clan 1962-63. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs.J. I. Brewster in any exhibition of publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Centre catalogue numbers: 81 0308 A; 20661.

Subject: landscape; mountain; river

Credit: Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.40

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

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Untitled

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsij.05.24

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.24

Description: A woman in a hat is standing on the shore of a lake. The painting is dominated by Mount Assiniboine in the background under a deep blue sky.

1 image

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1969

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 12.7 x 18.0 cm

Description: A woman in a hat is standing on the shore of a lake. The painting is dominated by Mount Assiniboine in the background under a deep blue sky.

Subject: figure; woman; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.24

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Before the White Man Came

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsij.05.30

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.30

Description: The painting is dominated by a large bison midcentre left grazing in a herd in the foothills. The mountains are behind under a dark blue and yellow sky.

1 image

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Before the White Man Came

Date: 1969

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 11.3 x 16.3 cm

Description: The painting is dominated by a large bison midcentre left grazing in a herd in the foothills. The mountains are behind under a dark blue and yellow sky.

Subject: animal, buffalo; landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; foothills

Credit: Gift of Unknown, 1978

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.30

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Untitled

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsij.05.31

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.31

Description: The painting is dominated by a large bison midcentre left grazing in a herd concentrated to the right in the foothills. The mountains are behind under a dark blue and yellow sky.

1 image

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1969

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 23.0 x 28.0 cm

Description: The painting is dominated by a large bison midcentre left grazing in a herd concentrated to the right in the foothills. The mountains are behind under a dark blue and yellow sky.