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Across the Southern States to the Blue Pacific and Vancouver

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1925 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.375

Description: Side 1: Pencil drawing of car driving on a highway to the viewer’s right and into the distance. Other more roughly sketched vehicles are in oncoming lanes. A sign to the right of the road reads: ACROSS THE SOUTHERN STATES/ TO THE PACIFIC AND/ VANCOUVERIn the top left corner, the number 13 is circle…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Across the Southern States to the Blue Pacific and Vancouver

Date: 1925 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 14.5 x 21.0 cm

Description: Side 1: Pencil drawing of car driving on a highway to the viewer’s right and into the distance. Other more roughly sketched vehicles are in oncoming lanes. A sign to the right of the road reads: ACROSS THE SOUTHERN STATES/ TO THE PACIFIC AND/ VANCOUVERIn the top left corner, the number 13 is circled.Side 2: Pencil drawing of a car driving through a landscape of rolling hills. Mountains are barely visible in the background. This illustration is in a rectangular box. Below this box is a rectangle that is divided into four.

Subject: car; landscape; Peter Whyte; drawing

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.375

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Alexander River

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.150

Description: Colour: green, purple. Across the bottom and angling up left is grass with trees, three at left and two at right, along the river's edge. The green river comes in from the right side, goes left and then up right side to disappear into the far shore of dark trees. The right shore juts in from that s…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Alexander River

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 28 cm

Description: Colour: green, purple. Across the bottom and angling up left is grass with trees, three at left and two at right, along the river's edge. The green river comes in from the right side, goes left and then up right side to disappear into the far shore of dark trees. The right shore juts in from that side, halfway up. In the background across the top are purple mountains. Five peaks meet a green grey sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; river

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.150

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Alleuvial Fan, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.245

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Alleuvial Fan, Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.1 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.245

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Annisqualm, Mass.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.303

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Annisqualm, Mass.

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.9 x 27.7 cm

Subject: landscape; New England; hills; figure

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.303

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Approach of Night

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1900

Medium: watercolour on paper board

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.11

Description: Landscape watercolour scene with horizontal coloured washes from the bottom up a green to blue to red to a blue/green yellow.

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Approach of Night

Date: c. 1900

Medium: watercolour on paper board

Dimensions: 11 x 21.5 cm

Description: Landscape watercolour scene with horizontal coloured washes from the bottom up a green to blue to red to a blue/green yellow.

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.11

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Approaching Stewart B.C., Portland Canal

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

Date: 1921

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.47

Description: blhc to centre: EL.“APPROACHING STEWART, B.C., PORTLAND CANAL”

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

Title: Approaching Stewart B.C., Portland Canal

Date: 1921

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 11.4 x 19.9 cm

Description: blhc to centre: EL.“APPROACHING STEWART, B.C., PORTLAND CANAL”

Subject: landscape; mountains; water; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.47

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Ashcroft Country, B.C.

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

Date: 1948

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.57

Description: See photo blhc: brhc: “E Lamarque”

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

Title: Ashcroft Country, B.C.

Date: 1948

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 30.3 cm

Description: See photo blhc: brhc: “E Lamarque”

Subject: landscape; mountains; water; urban, buildings; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.57

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Aspen Trees near Massive

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.126

Description: Looking out to Massive Mountain with aspen trees in foreground. Mount Brett and Pilot Mountain to the left of Massive Mountain.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Aspen Trees near Massive

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Looking out to Massive Mountain with aspen trees in foreground. Mount Brett and Pilot Mountain to the left of Massive Mountain.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Massive Mountain; Mt. Brett; Pilot Mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.126

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Aspens at Muleshoe

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.266

Description: View of a row of seven trees in the foreground with a valley beyond. The base of seven thin trees can be seen with dark brown bark becoming ochre-coloured near the trees' lower branches. The trees' leaves are bright yellow. The trees cast shadows towards the viewer coloured grey-green, ochre and or…

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Aspens at Muleshoe

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: View of a row of seven trees in the foreground with a valley beyond. The base of seven thin trees can be seen with dark brown bark becoming ochre-coloured near the trees' lower branches. The trees' leaves are bright yellow. The trees cast shadows towards the viewer coloured grey-green, ochre and orange-red. The grass about the trees and in the valley is a yellow-green with touches of ochre, orange-red and grey-green. In the middleground, to the left of centre, zigzags a river (whose banks are defined by lines of brown and white). A forest of dark brown and dark green surrounds the river on the left and from behind. The background is an undefined area of green, indicating the base of the mountains lining the valley.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.266

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Aspens, Autumn

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.183

Description: Yellow aspens.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Aspens, Autumn

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 22.8 cm

Description: Yellow aspens.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; botanical; aspens

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.183

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Aspens near Muleshoe Lake

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1965

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.389

Description: The foreground is a hill in colours of autumn, yellow and brown with green coniferous trees. In the background is a mountain range, blue with green trees on the lower slopes in the centre of the picture.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Aspens near Muleshoe Lake

Date: 1945 – 1965

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.3 cm

Description: The foreground is a hill in colours of autumn, yellow and brown with green coniferous trees. In the background is a mountain range, blue with green trees on the lower slopes in the centre of the picture.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; autumn

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.389

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At the Base of Cory Mountain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1927 – 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.377

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: At the Base of Cory Mountain

Date: 1927 – 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.0 x 27.5 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.377

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Athabasca from Parkers Ridge

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.382

Description: In the forground there are some trees on the right and one big one on the left. On the ground between the trees are different colors of weeds and flowers. In the background there are two mountains very triangle shaped. One is brown and the other on the left is smokey blue. The sky is a very pale bl…

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca from Parkers Ridge

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.2 cm

Description: In the forground there are some trees on the right and one big one on the left. On the ground between the trees are different colors of weeds and flowers. In the background there are two mountains very triangle shaped. One is brown and the other on the left is smokey blue. The sky is a very pale blue.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.382

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.287

Description: View of a glacier beyond a rise of covered ground. In the foreground is an uneven hilltop covered in vegetation. Multi-coloured grasses (ochre, yellow-green, red-brown, dark brown), a group of dark evergreens (on the right), as well as, a solitary evergreen (on the left) are found on the hilltop. I…

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1940 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: View of a glacier beyond a rise of covered ground. In the foreground is an uneven hilltop covered in vegetation. Multi-coloured grasses (ochre, yellow-green, red-brown, dark brown), a group of dark evergreens (on the right), as well as, a solitary evergreen (on the left) are found on the hilltop. In the background is a wide valley with a large glacier. The glacier (coloured with white, grey, light blue and light brown) fills most of the lefthand side. The righthand side of the background contains a mass of dark grey and brown cliffs (with touches of grey-blue and ochre). Along the upper edge of the picture (above the glacier) are loose brushstrokes of blue, white, brown and blue-grey. These marks suggest distant cliffs among ice and clouds.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.287

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.104

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.5 x 29.9 cm

Subject: landscape; glacier; Canadian rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.104

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.103

Description: Colour: blue greys. The central image is a mass of blue grey ice which takes up the middle two quarters. The upper and lower quarters being white patches of snow on a brown grey ground.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: blue greys. The central image is a mass of blue grey ice which takes up the middle two quarters. The upper and lower quarters being white patches of snow on a brown grey ground.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake; ice; snow; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.103

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.089

Description: Colour: blue, green. Central image is a fan shaped glacier emptying into a pool of warm blue water surrounded by green grass along the bottom and a third the way up. Beyond the glacier to the left is rock mountain side which goes off the left side. In the upper right corner is sky which meets dista…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green. Central image is a fan shaped glacier emptying into a pool of warm blue water surrounded by green grass along the bottom and a third the way up. Beyond the glacier to the left is rock mountain side which goes off the left side. In the upper right corner is sky which meets distant slopes.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.089

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.002

Description: Colour: blue, grey, yellow, red brown. A dead gnarled tree leans up the left side from a ground cover of yellow and red-brown bushes. At the right side are four evergreens. Behind and central is a huge glacier banked on either side by rock face. Across the top is clouds and blue sky.See sketches Wy…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1940 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 63.5 x 76.0 cm

Description: Colour: blue, grey, yellow, red brown. A dead gnarled tree leans up the left side from a ground cover of yellow and red-brown bushes. At the right side are four evergreens. Behind and central is a huge glacier banked on either side by rock face. Across the top is clouds and blue sky.See sketches WyP.01.537 and WyP.01.158