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Aged Larch

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

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.289

Description: To the right of centre, the lower trunk of a large larch tree is visible. The trunk is outlined in black, and coloured brown and blue-grey (with touches of ochre and red-brown). In the upper half of the sketch, a few small branches, with brushstrokes indicating groups of yellow needles, are growing…

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

Title: Aged Larch

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: To the right of centre, the lower trunk of a large larch tree is visible. The trunk is outlined in black, and coloured brown and blue-grey (with touches of ochre and red-brown). In the upper half of the sketch, a few small branches, with brushstrokes indicating groups of yellow needles, are growing from the tree's trunk. In the middleground are groups of younger (smaller) yellow trees, with tall dark green evergreens behind them. Beyond the trees is a flat area coloured tan-green.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.289

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Alpine Rock Garden

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

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas on aluminum

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.240

Description: The foreground is predominant in this sketch, with dabs of bright red vegetation in the lower right quarter of the picture. Three groupings of trees, placed along a line in the upper half of the sketch, frame and divide the background into two sections. The left background section contains a peak w…

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

Title: Alpine Rock Garden

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas on aluminum

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: The foreground is predominant in this sketch, with dabs of bright red vegetation in the lower right quarter of the picture. Three groupings of trees, placed along a line in the upper half of the sketch, frame and divide the background into two sections. The left background section contains a peak with sunlight illuminating it from the left-hand side. The right background section contains a large white cloud, and a small triangular peak partially hidden by the grasses growing in the foreground.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.240

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Alpine Valley

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

Date: 1930 – 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.334

Description: Patch of dark green blc, blue mountains with brush strokes of blue-green suggesting a green area below slopes, cloudy sky in light blue and off white.

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

Title: Alpine Valley

Date: 1930 – 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.7 cm

Description: Patch of dark green blc, blue mountains with brush strokes of blue-green suggesting a green area below slopes, cloudy sky in light blue and off white.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.334

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Aspens at Massive

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

Date: 1935 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.408

Description: Yellow and green mountain slope covers foreground to above centre. Mountains in background, blue sky.

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

Title: Aspens at Massive

Date: 1935 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.7 x 30.7 cm

Description: Yellow and green mountain slope covers foreground to above centre. Mountains in background, blue sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; forest; autumn

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.408

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At the Yoho Camp

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

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.430

Description: A brown cabin with white trim is in left centre, another building to the left of it. Mountain in the distance at centre right. Large evergreen trees beside the cabin. Billowy sky. A saddled brown horse is standing near a standing man in the right foreground.

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

Title: At the Yoho Camp

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: A brown cabin with white trim is in left centre, another building to the left of it. Mountain in the distance at centre right. Large evergreen trees beside the cabin. Billowy sky. A saddled brown horse is standing near a standing man in the right foreground.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; architecture; rural; animal; horse; figure; male; camping

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.430

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Autumn, Sawback Range

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

Date: 1935 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.227

Description: A row of yellow and lime green leaved trees create a line of colour behind an open field. The Sawbacks are located behind the treeline. The vein-like sculptural rock forms, rise high above the field. A cobalt blue sky creates a solid colour behind the mountains.

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

Title: Autumn, Sawback Range

Date: 1935 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: A row of yellow and lime green leaved trees create a line of colour behind an open field. The Sawbacks are located behind the treeline. The vein-like sculptural rock forms, rise high above the field. A cobalt blue sky creates a solid colour behind the mountains.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.227

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Bow Valley

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.347

Description: A line of yellow trees in foreground behind which is a row of darker green trees, behind which is a blue-green hill, behind hill is a mountain range with snow in the centre of sketch, the sky is light blue and cloudless.

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

Title: Bow Valley

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 19.9 x 24.4 cm

Description: A line of yellow trees in foreground behind which is a row of darker green trees, behind which is a blue-green hill, behind hill is a mountain range with snow in the centre of sketch, the sky is light blue and cloudless.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.347

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Cathedral Mountain

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

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.055

Description: Cathedral Mountain viewed from across Lake O’Hara.

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.8 x 28.0 cm

Description: Cathedral Mountain viewed from across Lake O’Hara.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; Cathedral Mountain; Lake O’Hara

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.055

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Cathedral Mountain

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

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.312

Description: One small tree, half a page high on right side, two larch trees on left side (full page), Cathedral Mountain in background, the peak is cut by a large thin cloud, the remainder of the sky is blue.

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: One small tree, half a page high on right side, two larch trees on left side (full page), Cathedral Mountain in background, the peak is cut by a large thin cloud, the remainder of the sky is blue.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.312

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Cathedral Mountain

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.323

Description: Group of about ten trees brc, sloping hill behind this with a group of trees in centre and also along sky line, group of five or six trees blc behind which is a reddish blue hill, in the centre background is a mountain (Cathedral) with light blue patch on left side, very horizontal white clouds aga…

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Group of about ten trees brc, sloping hill behind this with a group of trees in centre and also along sky line, group of five or six trees blc behind which is a reddish blue hill, in the centre background is a mountain (Cathedral) with light blue patch on left side, very horizontal white clouds against a light blue sky. Shades of green in the lower section, shades and tints of blue in the upper section and a little reddish blue on the two central mountains.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.323

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Cathedral Mountain

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.304

Description: Brown mountain mass extends across bottom of painting, and peaks to right of centre, patch of grey on side of mountain brc, swirlng grey clouds consume most of centre and upper area and move from left to upper right, patch of blue sky upper left is cut by grey cloud.

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Brown mountain mass extends across bottom of painting, and peaks to right of centre, patch of grey on side of mountain brc, swirlng grey clouds consume most of centre and upper area and move from left to upper right, patch of blue sky upper left is cut by grey cloud.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; Cathedral Mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.304

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Cathedral Mountain from Opabin

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.272

Description: View of Cathedral Mountain looking from Opabin Plateau near Lake O'Hara. In the right foreground are two tall larch trees, whose needles are small brushstrokes of yellow, ochre, light green and orange. The trees' trunks and thin branches are dark brown. In the left foreground two very small larch t…

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain from Opabin

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: View of Cathedral Mountain looking from Opabin Plateau near Lake O'Hara. In the right foreground are two tall larch trees, whose needles are small brushstrokes of yellow, ochre, light green and orange. The trees' trunks and thin branches are dark brown. In the left foreground two very small larch trees are also growing amongst violet-grey boulders. The triangular shape of Cathedral Mountain is in the left background. Its peak has two distinctive groups of cliffs side-by-side. The mountain is brown, dark blue and violet with touches of ochre and light red-brown. On the mountainside near the picture's centre is found a blue-grey area of snow. The sky is filled with a grey and light yellow cloud which stretches from the middle of the left-hand side to the upper right.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.272

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

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Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.233

Description: A view of Cathedral peaks, with the main mountain located in the background to the right of the centre of the composition. A horizontal range of rock extends to the left side of the picture, while the main peak slopes downwards to the right side of the sketch. The foreground is composed of hills co…

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: A view of Cathedral peaks, with the main mountain located in the background to the right of the centre of the composition. A horizontal range of rock extends to the left side of the picture, while the main peak slopes downwards to the right side of the sketch. The foreground is composed of hills covered in dark green trees and areas of light green grass. The background mountains are steel-grey blue with touches of purple blended in. White patches of snow divide the main peak from the horizontal range. The sky, occupying the top third of the composition, is filled with grey clouds, except for a strip of blue on the left-hand side.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.233

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Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.234

Description: Evening sketch of Cathedral mountain seen from Spiral Tunnels. Cathedral peak is located in the background slightly to the left of the centre of the composition. Shadowed rocks are notated in dark violet, while ochre and pale orange describe sunlit surfaces. The sky is pale blue. Four clouds spread…

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: Evening sketch of Cathedral mountain seen from Spiral Tunnels. Cathedral peak is located in the background slightly to the left of the centre of the composition. Shadowed rocks are notated in dark violet, while ochre and pale orange describe sunlit surfaces. The sky is pale blue. Four clouds spread out in the upper right corner form a semi-circle. The foreground of hills covered with dark green trees takes up more than half of the composition.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.234

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Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

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

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.360

Description: The bottom half of the picture is the green of a forest, a brown road is centre bottom. Mountain range in background with the top third of the painting a cloudy sky.

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.0 x 30.4 cm

Description: The bottom half of the picture is the green of a forest, a brown road is centre bottom. Mountain range in background with the top third of the painting a cloudy sky.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.360

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Cathedral Mountain, Lake O'Hara

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.309

Description: Group of six trees left side, tree on a rock brc, lake lower quarter, row of trees behind lake, Cathedral Mountain centre, blue sky across top with a patch of white to either side of the peak.

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain, Lake O'Hara

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Group of six trees left side, tree on a rock brc, lake lower quarter, row of trees behind lake, Cathedral Mountain centre, blue sky across top with a patch of white to either side of the peak.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.309

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The Cliffs of Mount Rundle

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

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.402

Description: The side of the mountain almost fills the painting. A lone coniferous tree stands in left foreground. The right foreground is unfinished.

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

Title: The Cliffs of Mount Rundle

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 40.2 cm

Description: The side of the mountain almost fills the painting. A lone coniferous tree stands in left foreground. The right foreground is unfinished.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.402

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Cloud Forms

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.341

Description: Tops of two trees brc, tops of two trees in centre, group of trees blc, green hill left side, blue hill right side, snow capped mountain in centre top two thirds of sketch is grey clouds with three areas of light blue sky showing through.

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

Title: Cloud Forms

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.6 cm

Description: Tops of two trees brc, tops of two trees in centre, group of trees blc, green hill left side, blue hill right side, snow capped mountain in centre top two thirds of sketch is grey clouds with three areas of light blue sky showing through.