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Banff Indian Days Camp

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil and mixed media on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.040

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Banff Indian Days Camp

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil and mixed media on canvas

Dimensions: 53.4 x 63.7 cm

Subject: landscape; mountains; camp; teepees; figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.040

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Banyan Tree, Bali

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.023

Description: Colour: brown, green. Two banyon trees fill the outer edges of the picture and the foreground. Behind n the distance are a few figures and a building to the left. Bits of sky can be seen through the branches of the trees.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Banyan Tree, Bali

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35 x 27.5 cm

Description: Colour: brown, green. Two banyon trees fill the outer edges of the picture and the foreground. Behind n the distance are a few figures and a building to the left. Bits of sky can be seen through the branches of the trees.

Subject: landscape; architecture; figure; group; Pacific

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.023

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Deception Pass

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.007

Description: Colour: blue. The lower five sixths of the canvas is blue snow with a ski trail going up from the lower right corner up and across left to the center of the crest where three figures are trudging. The sky beyond is streaked with a long horizontal cloud. In the upper left corner in the distance are …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Deception Pass

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 63.5 x 70.6 cm

Description: Colour: blue. The lower five sixths of the canvas is blue snow with a ski trail going up from the lower right corner up and across left to the center of the crest where three figures are trudging. The sky beyond is streaked with a long horizontal cloud. In the upper left corner in the distance are snowy peaks.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; activity; skiing; figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.007

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Downhill Skier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937

Catalogue Number: WyP.06.01

Description: A realistic rendering of a male downhill skier in action, right leg and ski slightly in front of left, knees bent, elbows up holding metal ski poles. The ski poles have metal baskets soldered on to main shaft. The base is a triangular shaped piece 8.7 cm at the back tapering to the front which is 2…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Downhill Skier

Date: 1937

Dimensions: 29.0 x 9.5 x 28.0 cm

Description: A realistic rendering of a male downhill skier in action, right leg and ski slightly in front of left, knees bent, elbows up holding metal ski poles. The ski poles have metal baskets soldered on to main shaft. The base is a triangular shaped piece 8.7 cm at the back tapering to the front which is 2.5 cm high. The whole sculpture, excluding the poles, is painted silver.

Subject: figure; skier; activity; skiing

Credit: Gift of Bob Leighton, 1971

Catalogue Number: WyP.06.01

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Field Workers, Hawaii

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.575

Description: A painting depicting people working in a brown field. Mountains in the background. One in a set of 7 paintings of Hawaii.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Field Workers, Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.6 cm

Description: A painting depicting people working in a brown field. Mountains in the background. One in a set of 7 paintings of Hawaii.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Pacific; Hawaii; figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.575

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Filling in the Bathtubs

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.029

Description: Colour: orange, green and blue on yellow and blue. Yellow slope covered with figures all carrying shovels. There are two paths coming down from the upper ridge at left. Both skiers at the end of the path are buried in snow. Two figures at the lower end of the right path are measuring the width of t…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Filling in the Bathtubs

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 100.1 x 74.6 cm

Description: Colour: orange, green and blue on yellow and blue. Yellow slope covered with figures all carrying shovels. There are two paths coming down from the upper ridge at left. Both skiers at the end of the path are buried in snow. Two figures at the lower end of the right path are measuring the width of the path. The sky is clear blue above where seven skiers stand waiting their turn.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; figure; group; activity; skiing; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.029

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Indian Days Camp

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.557

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Indian Days Camp

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.9 x 50.4 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; camp; figure; group; teepee

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.557

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Indian Days Camp

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.451

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Indian Days Camp

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; teepee; figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.451

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

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Indian Pow Wow

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.591

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Indian Pow Wow

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on paper

Dimensions: 30.1 x 22.7 cm

Subject: figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.591

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Plantation Houses, Hawaii

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.046

Description: Colour: white, green, brown. In the foreground are large green round shaped plants which give way to an open space which is in front of a group of white buildings. There is a woman carrying two water pails in the center. Two more figures are at the right and another group further right. At the righ…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Plantation Houses, Hawaii

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: white, green, brown. In the foreground are large green round shaped plants which give way to an open space which is in front of a group of white buildings. There is a woman carrying two water pails in the center. Two more figures are at the right and another group further right. At the right edge is a building, a line of laundry, another building back further. Behind these is a dark green forest.

Subject: architecture; rural; figure; group; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.046

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Setting Up Camp

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1932 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.065

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Setting Up Camp

Date: 1932 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 61.2 x 74.0 cm

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; camp; teepee; figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.065

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Seven Teepees

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1932 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.004

Description: Indigenous encampment containing seven teepees and small groups of people, a dog, background horses and mountains. There is green grass in the foreground, white and beige teepees and grey-blue mountains in the distance.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Seven Teepees

Date: 1932 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 56.0 x 152.5 cm

Description: Indigenous encampment containing seven teepees and small groups of people, a dog, background horses and mountains. There is green grass in the foreground, white and beige teepees and grey-blue mountains in the distance.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; figure; group; teepee; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.004

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

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Sketch for Poster

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1939 – 1941

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.567

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Sketch for Poster

Date: 1939 – 1941

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 76.5 x 51.0 cm

Subject: figure; male; mountain; World War

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.567

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Skiers

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1936 – 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.561

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Skiers

Date: 1936 – 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.6 x 50.7 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; activity; skiing; winter; figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.561

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Skiers

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.482

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Skiers

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; figure; group; activity; skiing

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.482

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

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Skiing the High Country

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.006

Description: Colour: blue. A ski trail comes up from the lower right across to center where there are three figures going over the crest of the hill. Behind are peaks and slopes meeting a bright sky which becomes darker near the top. The sky fills a little less than two thirds of the picture.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Skiing the High Country

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 53 x 64 cm

Description: Colour: blue. A ski trail comes up from the lower right across to center where there are three figures going over the crest of the hill. Behind are peaks and slopes meeting a bright sky which becomes darker near the top. The sky fills a little less than two thirds of the picture.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; activity; skiing; figure; group

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.006

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Stoney Camp at Dusk

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.019

Description: Colour: dark grey, blue, orange. In the foreground is a teepee at the left and right sides. The fires within glow through the tents. In between twelve more teepees are situated forming a partial circle around the central area where there are figures moving around in the darkness. Behind are hills a…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Stoney Camp at Dusk

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 59.0 x 160.9 cm

Description: Colour: dark grey, blue, orange. In the foreground is a teepee at the left and right sides. The fires within glow through the tents. In between twelve more teepees are situated forming a partial circle around the central area where there are figures moving around in the darkness. Behind are hills and mountains and blue sky which becomes dark grey with yellow streaks. Smoke can be seen coming out of the top flaps.