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- Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian) 356
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- Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American) 4
- Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian) 4
- Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian) 3
- Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian) 2
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- Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian) 1
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Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactfil.03.01
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- FiL.03.01
- Description
- General colour: pencil on white. Line drawing of nuts. Some lines in the lower half are jagged to indicate trees. In the lower right are larger marks to indicate trees. In the upper left corner, the underside of clouds are outlined.
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- Title
- Rocky Mountains
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.2 x 25.1 cm
- Description
- General colour: pencil on white. Line drawing of nuts. Some lines in the lower half are jagged to indicate trees. In the lower right are larger marks to indicate trees. In the upper left corner, the underside of clouds are outlined.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
- Catalogue Number
- FiL.03.01
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Bill Neish's Horse 1936
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- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.03.01
- Description
- General colour: brown on white. A horse saddled and carrying a rifle, saddle bags, and another case. Stands facing left. His ears are perked. Around the edges are notes by the artist regarding colouration.
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- Title
- Bill Neish's Horse 1936
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 38.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: brown on white. A horse saddled and carrying a rifle, saddle bags, and another case. Stands facing left. His ears are perked. Around the edges are notes by the artist regarding colouration.
- Credit
- Gift of Helen Collinson, Edmonton, 1974
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.03.01
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.02
- Description
- General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There …
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 55.0 x 43.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There is also a patch of blue in the upper right corner.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountains
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.02
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.003
- Description
- A gray watercoloured stone path leads back to a Japanese temple with two levels of curving roof. The path winds through a garden of stone sculptures that stand on pedestals before reaching the temple. The temple is coloured with red on the outside walls and windows are yellow and the sloping roof…
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- Title
- Temple, Japan
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.0 x 24.5 cm
- Description
- A gray watercoloured stone path leads back to a Japanese temple with two levels of curving roof. The path winds through a garden of stone sculptures that stand on pedestals before reaching the temple. The temple is coloured with red on the outside walls and windows are yellow and the sloping roofs are green. A stone wall is to the right of the temple and behind it is a tree trunk painted in brown with two branches in yellow and green. Framing the image to the right is the beginning of a curved gable that enters into the frame but is discontinued.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.003
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Chinese Mothers, Canton, China
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.004
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.004
- Description
- A group of three adults stand center. Flanking the man in red in the center is a woman in beige to the left with a child on her back in a red pouch, and to the right another woman in light orange with a child on her back in a green pouch. Behind them is a step up on to an area where a figure in b…
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- Title
- Chinese Mothers, Canton, China
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.4 x 23.0 cm
- Description
- A group of three adults stand center. Flanking the man in red in the center is a woman in beige to the left with a child on her back in a red pouch, and to the right another woman in light orange with a child on her back in a green pouch. Behind them is a step up on to an area where a figure in blue sits playing a flute. Behind him in the background is another figure bending over a desk, pen in hand. Setting is washed in brown and green.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.004
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Canton, China, Typical Street Scene
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.005
- Description
- A street scene with various intensities of red, yellow, and blue signs on buildings on both sides of the street with laundry strung between. At the right a figure in blue with a sandy coloured hat sits in a doorway by some bundles. At the left a man in a sandy coloured hat carries two yellow bundl…
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- Title
- Canton, China, Typical Street Scene
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.5 x 22.1 cm
- Description
- A street scene with various intensities of red, yellow, and blue signs on buildings on both sides of the street with laundry strung between. At the right a figure in blue with a sandy coloured hat sits in a doorway by some bundles. At the left a man in a sandy coloured hat carries two yellow bundles on a pole that he carries across his shoulders. In the background are numerous other figures.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.005
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Prince Rupert Mid Day
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.044
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.044
- Description
- Scene of buildings situated on top of a hill, with some more below these upon appendage-like stilts. - there is one building in the immediate forground right.“A full range of tones evenly dapple this sketch moving the viewer’s eye easily about it. Collings sketched the town from the base of a hall …
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- Title
- Prince Rupert Mid Day
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.5 x 26 cm
- Description
- Scene of buildings situated on top of a hill, with some more below these upon appendage-like stilts. - there is one building in the immediate forground right.“A full range of tones evenly dapple this sketch moving the viewer’s eye easily about it. Collings sketched the town from the base of a hall looking up; the result is fresh and spontaneous but clearly exhibits Collings’ superb control and concise line at this late stage of his career.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.044
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- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.097
- Description
- Profile portrait of the bust of a woman with her head gazing downwards.“The woman’s head is bowed as though she is preoccupied with something in front of her; perhaps it is the artist’s wife, Mellora, playing the piano. The woman’s eyes and mouth, and tendrils of hair at the nape are treated sensit…
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- Title
- Melora
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 25 x 18 cm
- Description
- Profile portrait of the bust of a woman with her head gazing downwards.“The woman’s head is bowed as though she is preoccupied with something in front of her; perhaps it is the artist’s wife, Mellora, playing the piano. The woman’s eyes and mouth, and tendrils of hair at the nape are treated sensitively while flowers in the background underscore her femininity.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- portrait
- Mellora Collings
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.097
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On the Columbia between Revelstoke and Arrow Lakes
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- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on oil paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.106
- Description
- Scene with a lake in the forground center moving back over sloping forests to the mountain in the background.“It is not surprising that this soft, moody sketch shows some wear as Collings seems to have been travelling by canoe. The artist would have been well into his seventies on this trip.” -- …
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- Title
- On the Columbia between Revelstoke and Arrow Lakes
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on oil paper
- Dimensions
- 26 x 20 cm
- Description
- Scene with a lake in the forground center moving back over sloping forests to the mountain in the background.“It is not surprising that this soft, moody sketch shows some wear as Collings seems to have been travelling by canoe. The artist would have been well into his seventies on this trip.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.106
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- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.112
- Description
- Scene of a river with swiftly moveing water and with trees to its rear bank.“Collings focused increasingly on the centre of his pictures in his late work, leaving the edges ‘open’ as in this example.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
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- Title
- Pine Portage
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.5 x 27.5 cm
- Description
- Scene of a river with swiftly moveing water and with trees to its rear bank.“Collings focused increasingly on the centre of his pictures in his late work, leaving the edges ‘open’ as in this example.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.112
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- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.04
- Description
- A page full of sketches: a head of a ram, a ram's horn, a bear's head, a running bear, a pawing bear, a kneeling horse, 2 standing horses, one rear view,a bison and an elephant. A flat topped mountain is seen in background, centre right.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 38.0 cm
- Description
- A page full of sketches: a head of a ram, a ram's horn, a bear's head, a running bear, a pawing bear, a kneeling horse, 2 standing horses, one rear view,a bison and an elephant. A flat topped mountain is seen in background, centre right.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.04
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- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.03
- Description
- A page full of sketches - a saddled horse, a bison, a long horn and an elephant.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 18.3 x 31.0 cm
- Description
- A page full of sketches - a saddled horse, a bison, a long horn and an elephant.
- Subject
- Animal, horse, cow, elephant
- Credit
- Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.03
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Untitled [Saddle Horse]
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- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.01
- Description
- A sketch of a saddled and bridled horse. The horse is facing to right of picture, his tail is tied up, he is standing in snow. A faint drawing of a log house is in centre background, a buffalo skull is over the door. A circle resembling a compass is in bottom right of picture. The reverse of this d…
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- Title
- Untitled [Saddle Horse]
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.5 x 36.5 cm
- Description
- A sketch of a saddled and bridled horse. The horse is facing to right of picture, his tail is tied up, he is standing in snow. A faint drawing of a log house is in centre background, a buffalo skull is over the door. A circle resembling a compass is in bottom right of picture. The reverse of this drawing has a pen and ink sketch of an airplane, of WW I vintage, the pilot can be seen in the cockpit.
- Subject
- animal
- horse
- architecture
- rural
- log cabin
- Credit
- Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.01
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Shorty White-Grass A-PO-TO-YE-SEE
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- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KiW.03.02
- Description
- A very brightly coloured pastel drawing. The portrait of the man dominates almost the entire picture. A dark blue background behind his head, the face is drawin in good detail, black braids to the front. A red undershirt, yellow vest with white/red/purple diamond designs over shoulders. A necklace …
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- Title
- Shorty White-Grass A-PO-TO-YE-SEE
- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 49.8 x 38.0 cm
- Description
- A very brightly coloured pastel drawing. The portrait of the man dominates almost the entire picture. A dark blue background behind his head, the face is drawin in good detail, black braids to the front. A red undershirt, yellow vest with white/red/purple diamond designs over shoulders. A necklace of black-tipped weasel tails and long, black horse tails. He is wearing a brown (buckskin ?) shirt. On the back of the heavy card backing: Shorty White-Grass A-PO-TO-YE-SEE Blackfeet Tribe of Browning Mont. in blue; in black: #54.
- Subject
- portrait, male
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- KiW.03.02
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- Date
- 1927
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.09
- Description
- The mountains dominate the picture, of blue/purple tones. Left foreground is a small lake with reflections of the mountains, immediate right foreground has yellow/brown tones, treed shoreline. Little sky showing, cloudy. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition publica…
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- Title
- Moraine Lake
- Date
- 1927
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 42.2 x 57.0 cm
- Description
- The mountains dominate the picture, of blue/purple tones. Left foreground is a small lake with reflections of the mountains, immediate right foreground has yellow/brown tones, treed shoreline. Little sky showing, cloudy. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Centre catalogue numbers: 81 0334 A; 20687.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountains
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.09
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- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LiA.03.01
- Description
- This drawing is a stylistically loose portrayal of a mountain scene. This scene is comprised only of mountains and rock - no trees or such other landscape. There is a peak in TLC and the mountain slopes downward to another smaller peak in the TRC. The foreground of the piece is comprised of many…
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- Title
- Mt. Biddle
- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Description
- This drawing is a stylistically loose portrayal of a mountain scene. This scene is comprised only of mountains and rock - no trees or such other landscape. There is a peak in TLC and the mountain slopes downward to another smaller peak in the TRC. The foreground of the piece is comprised of many loose rocks that are piled on top of one another and recede into the background. The line quality of the drawing in the foreground is much heavier and more detailed than the background. Shading in the piece is done mostly with cross-hatching.
- Subject
- Landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Mountains
- Credit
- Gift of Donald Grace, Saanichton, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- LiA.03.01
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Range Approaching Castle Mountain from Banff
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- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- VaF.03.01
- Description
- A stylistically loose line drawing of a mountain scene. The drawing is done on a paper that is brownish in tone. The top 1/3 of the piece is blank - a clear sky. A mountain range takes up the next 1/3 of the piece, and the tallest portion is centered on the page. In the foreground of the piece …
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- Title
- Range Approaching Castle Mountain from Banff
- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Description
- A stylistically loose line drawing of a mountain scene. The drawing is done on a paper that is brownish in tone. The top 1/3 of the piece is blank - a clear sky. A mountain range takes up the next 1/3 of the piece, and the tallest portion is centered on the page. In the foreground of the piece is a small valley with low lying hills on either side. The hills and mountains are cropped at either side of the piece. The valley created by the hills exits the drawing in the BLC.
- Credit
- Gift of Donald Grace, Saanichton, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- VaF.03.01
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WoS.03.02
- Description
- Robb on back of frame, so was possibly purchased by Catharine before her marriage (1930) or was purchased by Catharine's mother, Edith Morse Robb.
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- Title
- Fish Houses
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 24.0 x 18.8 cm
- Description
- Robb on back of frame, so was possibly purchased by Catharine before her marriage (1930) or was purchased by Catharine's mother, Edith Morse Robb.
- Subject
- architecture, urban
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WoS.03.02
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Untitled [Catharine Robb]
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- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BoF.03.01
- Description
- A profile view of Catharine Robb [Whyte]. Catharine is looking to the right of the image and she has her hair up in a bun. The clothing section of the drawing is only penciled in lightly.
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- Title
- Untitled [Catharine Robb]
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 34 x 23 cm
- Description
- A profile view of Catharine Robb [Whyte]. Catharine is looking to the right of the image and she has her hair up in a bun. The clothing section of the drawing is only penciled in lightly.
- Subject
- portrait, Catharine Robb
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- BoF.03.01
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- Date
- 1927
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HaP.03.01
- Description
- This drawing was purchased from the League of Boston Artists. Probably purchased by Mrs. Robb.
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- Title
- Portrait
- Date
- 1927
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.5 x 23.5 cm
- Description
- This drawing was purchased from the League of Boston Artists. Probably purchased by Mrs. Robb.
- Subject
- portrait, female
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- HaP.03.01
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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