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Artist: Guy Wesley

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WeG.09.01a-p

Description: pencil sketches on paper sixteen sketches a-p various sizes

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Artist: Guy Wesley

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 15.3 x 22.8 cm

Description: pencil sketches on paper sixteen sketches a-p various sizes

Subject: landscape; mountain; birds; dogs

Credit: Gift of Gordon E Lock, 1968

Catalogue Number: WeG.09.01a-p

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1930

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.05

Description: A sketchbook with a black spine and pressed paper cover in black and white. There is a white rectangular label with “Peter Whyte Banff” written in graphite pencil. It contains several black and white and coloured sketches done by Peter Whyte of various subjects including people, places, structures,…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930 – 1930

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 26 x 20.2 cm

Description: A sketchbook with a black spine and pressed paper cover in black and white. There is a white rectangular label with “Peter Whyte Banff” written in graphite pencil. It contains several black and white and coloured sketches done by Peter Whyte of various subjects including people, places, structures, and transports (mostly ships) from trips through Asia, Africa, and Hawaii taken during 1930.

Subject: sketching; drawing; figure studies; ships; Asia; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.05

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Artist: Clifford Foard Robinson (1916 – 1992, Canadian)

Date: ca. 1941 – 1942

Medium: watercolour; ink; pencil on paper

Catalogue Number: RbC.09.01

Description: A black coil bound sketchbook. Inside the front cover “Cliff Robinson 1009-13 Ave West, Calgary. Morley, Alta” has been written in ink. The sketchbook contains ink, watercolour, and pencil works that illustrate rural scenes [Morley/Mini Thni], studies of plants and animals, buildings, tipis, a sund…

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Artist: Clifford Foard Robinson (1916 – 1992, Canadian)

Title: untitled

Date: ca. 1941 – 1942

Medium: watercolour; ink; pencil on paper

Dimensions: 31.0 x 25.0 cm

Description: A black coil bound sketchbook. Inside the front cover “Cliff Robinson 1009-13 Ave West, Calgary. Morley, Alta” has been written in ink. The sketchbook contains ink, watercolour, and pencil works that illustrate rural scenes [Morley/Mini Thni], studies of plants and animals, buildings, tipis, a sundance lodge, RCMP Barracks, Haida symbols, Loose linocuts of villages, a church have been placed between pages. Near the back is a letter to members of the Society of Canadian Painter-etchers and Engravers and a list of paintings exhibited by the Art Gallery of Toronto April 11 - May 3 1942

Subject: Stoney; Indigenous; Haida; birds; animals; Alberta; Mini Thni; RCMP

Credit: Gift of Ron Robinson, Nelson, 2023

Catalogue Number: RbC.09.01

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: graphite; on paper;

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.13

Description: Flipbook-style sketchbook with marbled brown and beige covers bound with black fabric tape along the short top edge. A paper sticker adhered to the middle of the front cover has “PW BANFF” written in graphite. Contents include figure studies of people in various poses and participating in various a…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: graphite; on paper;

Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.5 cm

Description: Flipbook-style sketchbook with marbled brown and beige covers bound with black fabric tape along the short top edge. A paper sticker adhered to the middle of the front cover has “PW BANFF” written in graphite. Contents include figure studies of people in various poses and participating in various activities, sometimes accompanied with text, as well as animals - usually horses.

Subject: drawing; sketching; horses; skiing; figure study; Peter Whyte;

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.13

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: graphite; on paper;

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.21

Description: Flip-book style coil-bound sketchbook with pressed paper covers. Front cover is laminated light brown with “REEVES, Series 60, SKETCH BOOK, FOR PENCIL, CRAYON AND WATER COLOUR” printed in black. Contains only two sketches: one of a waterfall and one of a building, possibly the school, with Rundle i…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: graphite; on paper;

Dimensions: 31.0 x 22.3 cm

Description: Flip-book style coil-bound sketchbook with pressed paper covers. Front cover is laminated light brown with “REEVES, Series 60, SKETCH BOOK, FOR PENCIL, CRAYON AND WATER COLOUR” printed in black. Contains only two sketches: one of a waterfall and one of a building, possibly the school, with Rundle in the background.

Subject: sketching; drawing; waterfalls; buildings; Peter Whyte;

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.21

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: graphite; on paper;

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.24

Description: Red cloth-bound sketchbook with leather trim wound around the edges - the edges of the pages are painted red. Contents include figure studies and sketches of people skiing.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: graphite; on paper;

Dimensions: 24.0 x 20.0 cm

Description: Red cloth-bound sketchbook with leather trim wound around the edges - the edges of the pages are painted red. Contents include figure studies and sketches of people skiing.

Subject: sketching; drawing; figure studies; skiing; Peter Whyte;

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.24

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934 – 1934

Medium: graphite; on paper;

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.25

Description: Spiral-bound sketchbook with red and white-patterned cardboard covers and a black fabric elastic band attached to the back cover for the purpose of holding the book closed. A white paper sticker is adhered to the front cover with “Spring Block, Drawing Paper, By T.S.” printed in black on it - “Pete…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1934 – 1934

Medium: graphite; on paper;

Dimensions: 24.8 x 19.0 cm

Description: Spiral-bound sketchbook with red and white-patterned cardboard covers and a black fabric elastic band attached to the back cover for the purpose of holding the book closed. A white paper sticker is adhered to the front cover with “Spring Block, Drawing Paper, By T.S.” printed in black on it - “Peter Whyte” is written in pencil in the TLC. Contents include scene sketches from a 1934 trip to Japan by Peter and Catharine. Consists mostly of people sitting at tables presumably playing cards, Catharine reading the newspaper, figure studies, and a horse-drawn 2-wheel carriage.

Subject: sketching; drawing; figure study; newspaper; portrait; Japan; horses; Peter Whyte; Catharine Robb Whyte;

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.25

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934 – 1934

Medium: graphite; watercolour; on paper;

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.26

Description: Fabric-wrapped cardboard cover Japanese sketchbook with high-quality paper pages. All pages stacked folded over each other like an accordion. Contents include figure studies and caricatures/stylized portraits of Japanese men and women, often holding umbrella - almost all of the images of women have…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1934 – 1934

Medium: graphite; watercolour; on paper;

Dimensions: 24.2 x 18.22 cm

Description: Fabric-wrapped cardboard cover Japanese sketchbook with high-quality paper pages. All pages stacked folded over each other like an accordion. Contents include figure studies and caricatures/stylized portraits of Japanese men and women, often holding umbrella - almost all of the images of women have been coloured in with watercolour paint.

Subject: sketching; drawing; portrait; figure study; Japan; painting; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.26

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: graphite; colour pencil; on paper;

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.27

Description: Black and white-patterned cardboard cover with black fabric tape along spine and white paper adhesive sticker for title on front cover. Contents include rough sketches for Indigenous scenes paintings, usually including structures like tepees and sweat lodges, mathematical/geometric equations for pl…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: graphite; colour pencil; on paper;

Dimensions: 21.3 x 17.4 cm

Description: Black and white-patterned cardboard cover with black fabric tape along spine and white paper adhesive sticker for title on front cover. Contents include rough sketches for Indigenous scenes paintings, usually including structures like tepees and sweat lodges, mathematical/geometric equations for placement of tepee poles, and more.

Subject: sketching; drawing; paintings; Indigenous Peoples; Stoney Nakoda; First Nations; ceremonies; dances; Morley; Peter Whyte;

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.27

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Bow Falls, Banff

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Date: c. 1941

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: ShM.04.07

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Title: Bow Falls, Banff

Date: c. 1941

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 9.7 x 12.9 cm

Subject: landscape; mountain; waterfall

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1982

Catalogue Number: ShM.04.07

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Golf Club House B S H Banff

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: ShM.04.08

Description: Same as coloured woodcut ShM.04.04

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Title: Golf Club House B S H Banff

Date: 1938

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 12.1 x 14.4 cm

Description: Same as coloured woodcut ShM.04.04

Subject: architecture; Banff Springs Hotel

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1982

Catalogue Number: ShM.04.08

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Covered Bridge

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Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Date: 1938

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: HbA.04.02

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Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Title: Covered Bridge

Date: 1938

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 12.3 x 17.4 cm

Subject: landscape, hills; animal, oxen; figure, male; winter; Christmas

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

Catalogue Number: HbA.04.02

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Strom of Assinaboine (sic)

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Artist: Percival James Edgar (1888 – 1946, American)

Date: 1939

Medium: reproduction on drawing

Catalogue Number: EdP.04.02

Description: Storm of Assinaboine (sic) P. J. Edgar Assinaboine 1939. Man's portrait, Erling Strom, wearing cowboy hat, looking to the left at Mount Assiniboine in background.

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Artist: Percival James Edgar (1888 – 1946, American)

Title: Strom of Assinaboine (sic)

Date: 1939

Medium: reproduction on drawing

Dimensions: 29.7 x 20.2 cm

Description: Storm of Assinaboine (sic) P. J. Edgar Assinaboine 1939. Man's portrait, Erling Strom, wearing cowboy hat, looking to the left at Mount Assiniboine in background.

Subject: portrait; male; Erling Strom

Credit: Gift of Nancy Lyall, 1970

Catalogue Number: EdP.04.02

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Elizabeth Von Rummel

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Artist: Percival James Edgar (1888 – 1946, American)

Date: 1939

Medium: reproduction on drawing

Catalogue Number: EdP.04.01

Description: Baroness Elizabeth von Rummel Waldau - Marvel Lake Lookout - 1939 - July signed P. J. Edgar. Portrait of a woman, Elizabeth Rummel, she has a kerchief tied around her head, a cigaret in her mouth, facing to the left, mountains in the background.

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Artist: Percival James Edgar (1888 – 1946, American)

Title: Elizabeth Von Rummel

Date: 1939

Medium: reproduction on drawing

Dimensions: 30.1 x 20.1 cm

Description: Baroness Elizabeth von Rummel Waldau - Marvel Lake Lookout - 1939 - July signed P. J. Edgar. Portrait of a woman, Elizabeth Rummel, she has a kerchief tied around her head, a cigaret in her mouth, facing to the left, mountains in the background.

Subject: portrait; female; Elizabeth Rummel

Credit: Gift of Sydney Vallance, 1970

Catalogue Number: EdP.04.01

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Street Vendor

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Artist: Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1932

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: HaC.03.02

Description: Three figures at vendor's stand in treed setting; signed on card folder only, sketch glued to card. Xmas card sent to Whytes by Artist

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Artist: Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Street Vendor

Date: 1932

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 11.7 x 14.8 cm

Description: Three figures at vendor's stand in treed setting; signed on card folder only, sketch glued to card. Xmas card sent to Whytes by Artist