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Avalanche Slope

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Artist: Rick Nicholas de Grandmaison (1932 – 1985, Canadian)

Date: 1955 – 1970

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: DgO.02.02

Description: tlc and along top is a cloudy sky, below that is a mountain face. The slope runs tr to bl. The mountain has a long expanse of white from tr to bl interspersed with trees and shadows. Stylized tree forms all along bottom edge.

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Artist: Rick Nicholas de Grandmaison (1932 – 1985, Canadian)

Title: Avalanche Slope

Date: 1955 – 1970

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 120.0 x 120.00 cm

Description: tlc and along top is a cloudy sky, below that is a mountain face. The slope runs tr to bl. The mountain has a long expanse of white from tr to bl interspersed with trees and shadows. Stylized tree forms all along bottom edge.

Subject: Canadian Rockies; landscape; winter

Credit: Gift of John P. Crabb, Winnipeg, 1995

Catalogue Number: DgO.02.02

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Bear Street Alley, Sulphur Mountain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1922 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.534

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bear Street Alley, Sulphur Mountain

Date: 1922 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.2 x 40.4 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; town, Banff

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.534

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Cabin at Assiniboine

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.050

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cabin at Assiniboine

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.8 x 50.8 cm

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; forest; winter; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.050

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Fossil Mountain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1932 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.587

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Fossil Mountain

Date: 1932 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.7 cm

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.587

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Klosters

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.055

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Klosters

Date: 1938 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 39.0 x 49.7 cm

Subject: architecture; urban; Switzerland; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.055

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

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Laid In Halfway Hut, Mount Temple

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1932 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.052

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Laid In Halfway Hut, Mount Temple

Date: 1932 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.8 x 51.0 cm

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; winter; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.052

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The Lake Louise Group from Temple Lodge

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938 – 1941

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.469

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: The Lake Louise Group from Temple Lodge

Date: 1938 – 1941

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.2 x 35.5 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.469

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Light on the Left Eagle

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 1991

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SmA.05.01

Description: A single mountain dominates, foreground is green trees, snow covered mountain towers to top third, between trees and peak is a bowl, cloudy sky top third

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Light on the Left Eagle

Date: 1991

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.0 x 25.3 cm

Description: A single mountain dominates, foreground is green trees, snow covered mountain towers to top third, between trees and peak is a bowl, cloudy sky top third

Subject: landscape; mountain; winter

Credit: Purchased from Sunshine Village, Banff, 1991

Catalogue Number: SmA.05.01

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A Merry Christmas to Mother Robb from Peter

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1948

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.707

Description: Sketch of the Whyte’s home during winter with a loosely drawn version of Cascade mountain behind it. Various animals walking up to and from the house. Under BLC of the border it says “A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO MOTHER ROBB FROM PETER”, and in BRC the the suggested dimensions of “6 1/2 x 8”

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: A Merry Christmas to Mother Robb from Peter

Date: 1948

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 21.6 x 27.4 cm

Description: Sketch of the Whyte’s home during winter with a loosely drawn version of Cascade mountain behind it. Various animals walking up to and from the house. Under BLC of the border it says “A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO MOTHER ROBB FROM PETER”, and in BRC the the suggested dimensions of “6 1/2 x 8”

Subject: cabin; winter; Christmas card; Cascade mountain; trees; squirrel; birds; deer; moose; bear

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.707

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Mount Assiniboine

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Artist: Frank Shirley Panabaker (1904 – 1992, Canadian)

Date: 1925 – 1930

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: PaF.02.01

Description: An oil painting of The Towers near Mount Assiniboine in the autumn with a brook through the snow in an open valley in the foreground surrounded by a forest of evergreen trees.

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Artist: Frank Shirley Panabaker (1904 – 1992, Canadian)

Title: Mount Assiniboine

Date: 1925 – 1930

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 34.0 x 26.5 cm

Description: An oil painting of The Towers near Mount Assiniboine in the autumn with a brook through the snow in an open valley in the foreground surrounded by a forest of evergreen trees.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; winter

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: PaF.02.01

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Mount Temple, Ptarmigan Valley

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.541

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mount Temple, Ptarmigan Valley

Date: 1935 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.1 x 35.0 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.541

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Mounts Temple and Hungabee, Ptarmigan Valley

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.046

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mounts Temple and Hungabee, Ptarmigan Valley

Date: 1935 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.8 x 50.9 cm

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.046

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

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On Sky Line Slopes

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Artist: Robert J. McGuinness (1886 – 1961, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: McR.05.01

Description: A lady skier, wearing reddish pants and green jacket, red and green scarf, stands to left centre, she is facing to the right, a line of trees behind her, mountain peaks in background, top third is sky, picture quite faded.

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Artist: Robert J. McGuinness (1886 – 1961, Canadian)

Title: On Sky Line Slopes

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 76.5 x 55.8 cm

Description: A lady skier, wearing reddish pants and green jacket, red and green scarf, stands to left centre, she is facing to the right, a line of trees behind her, mountain peaks in background, top third is sky, picture quite faded.

Subject: landscape; Rocky Mountains; figure; woman; winter; skiing

Credit: Gift of Steve T. Hincks, Banff, 1989

Catalogue Number: McR.05.01

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Ptarmigan Peak

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.474

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Ptarmigan Peak

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.474

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Ptarmigan Peak

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.056

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Ptarmigan Peak

Date: 1933 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 53.4 x 63.8 cm

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.056

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

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Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1947

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.719

Description: A rough sketch of the 1947 Christmas card. A figure stands in the opening of the Dutch door while the animals surround the cabin. Written on the top edge “SEASONS GREETINGS,” along the bottom edge “CATHARINE AND PETER,” “Peter Whyte BANFF.” Near the BRC “6 1/2” and close to the TRC “3 1/2,” besides…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter

Date: 1947

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 10.0 x 15.9 cm

Description: A rough sketch of the 1947 Christmas card. A figure stands in the opening of the Dutch door while the animals surround the cabin. Written on the top edge “SEASONS GREETINGS,” along the bottom edge “CATHARINE AND PETER,” “Peter Whyte BANFF.” Near the BRC “6 1/2” and close to the TRC “3 1/2,” besides both numbers it appears to say “inches.”verso: landscape with an artist sitting at the top of the hill painting, there is a plane and a mountain in the background. In the BLC there are ink scribbles and “Peter Whyte” as a practice signature and the initials “P.W.”

Subject: painting; person; plane; mountain; easel; cabin; moose; deer, wolf; squirrel; bird; bear; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.719

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Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter 1947

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1947

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.718

Description: A detailed sketch of the 1947 Christmas card. Animals join Catharine at the Dutch door of her home where she is serving them some food. On the top edge of drawing is reads “SEASONS GREETINGS” and along the bottom of the page “CATHARINE AND PETER” and “Peter Whyte 47 BANFF.” In the BLC “Catharine” i…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter 1947

Date: 1947

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 14.0 x 21.3 cm

Description: A detailed sketch of the 1947 Christmas card. Animals join Catharine at the Dutch door of her home where she is serving them some food. On the top edge of drawing is reads “SEASONS GREETINGS” and along the bottom of the page “CATHARINE AND PETER” and “Peter Whyte 47 BANFF.” In the BLC “Catharine” is written.Inside the fold of the paper you can see a simple sketch of the floor plan of their cabin (main level), and inside one room it reads “kitchen.” On the bottom half of the page there is multiple squirrels drawn out. verso: there is a rough sketch of what looks like a landscape, with multiple birds drawn around it.