Search Results - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Aloha Tower, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.047

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.047

Description: Colour: blue, white, grey. At the right side is a dock. Two boats are tied up at the end of it. Across the picture on the other side of the lake are low buildings and to the left a buildng with a tower on the corner of it. Dark green slopes rise up to the right from behind. Mountains can be seen ju…

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Aloha Tower, Hawaii

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, white, grey. At the right side is a dock. Two boats are tied up at the end of it. Across the picture on the other side of the lake are low buildings and to the left a buildng with a tower on the corner of it. Dark green slopes rise up to the right from behind. Mountains can be seen just behind them. The sky is layers of grey and fills the upper half.

Subject: landscape; architecture; urban; mountain; seascape; transportation; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.047

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

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Beach at Makapu'u Point, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.042

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1936

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.042

Description: Colour: yellow, grey, green. The lower half is sand and rocks. There is green water to the right and a large dark mountain side to the left. Above the horizon are two mountain islands and grey and green sky beyond.

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Beach at Makapu'u Point, Hawaii

Date: 1936

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: yellow, grey, green. The lower half is sand and rocks. There is green water to the right and a large dark mountain side to the left. Above the horizon are two mountain islands and grey and green sky beyond.

Subject: seascape; mountain; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.042

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Boat on Ocean, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.576

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.576

Description: A painting of a body of water with grey clouds above and a mountain in the right background. One in a set of 7 paintings of Hawaii.

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Boat on Ocean, Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.6 cm

Description: A painting of a body of water with grey clouds above and a mountain in the right background. One in a set of 7 paintings of Hawaii.

Subject: seascape; Pacific; Hawaii; boat; cloudscape

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.576

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Building Sampans at Kewalo Basin, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.030

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.030

Description: Colour: brown, blue. A building with vague outlines of boats and figures in front of it, fills the left side of the picture. To the right is a large boat and hills and sky beyond.

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Building Sampans at Kewalo Basin, Hawaii

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: brown, blue. A building with vague outlines of boats and figures in front of it, fills the left side of the picture. To the right is a large boat and hills and sky beyond.

Subject: landscape; Pacific; architecture; transportation; Hawaii

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.030

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Burning Cane Sugar, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.050

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.050

Description: Colour: green, grey blue. The lower third is a green field with a dark stream running zigzag through it from the lower right to the left. Vague buildings and trees can be seen on the horizon and at the right, a brown slope. The other two thirds is grey clouds with a patch of blue in the upper left …

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Burning Cane Sugar, Hawaii

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: green, grey blue. The lower third is a green field with a dark stream running zigzag through it from the lower right to the left. Vague buildings and trees can be seen on the horizon and at the right, a brown slope. The other two thirds is grey clouds with a patch of blue in the upper left corner.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.050

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

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Commodore in Dry Dock, Honolulu, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.041

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.041

Description: Colour: blue, brown. Central image is the frontal view of a large ship. Masts fill the upper center area. Across the middle is a dark beam of iron that joins up with another on the right side. Down the left side is one of the supports for the beam. Near the bottom surrounding the boat are ladder sh…

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Commodore in Dry Dock, Honolulu, Hawaii

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, brown. Central image is the frontal view of a large ship. Masts fill the upper center area. Across the middle is a dark beam of iron that joins up with another on the right side. Down the left side is one of the supports for the beam. Near the bottom surrounding the boat are ladder shaped structures and to the right, a small building on a sort of ramp which goes from the side of the ship to the right. The sky is blue.

Subject: transportation; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.041

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Dole Pineapple Factory, Honolulu

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.031

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.031

Description: Colour: dark grey, green. The upper half is dark grey sky. In the center are a group of buildings way in the distance and water beyond. The foreground is green slopes - a few trees and a building to the left.

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Dole Pineapple Factory, Honolulu

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: dark grey, green. The upper half is dark grey sky. In the center are a group of buildings way in the distance and water beyond. The foreground is green slopes - a few trees and a building to the left.

Subject: landscape; Pacific; architecture; Hawaii

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.031

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Field Workers, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.575

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.

1 image

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

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Fields and Mountain, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.578

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.578

Description: Painting showing green fields in front of tall mountains. One in a set of 7 paintings of Hawaii.

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Fields and Mountain, Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.6 cm

Description: Painting showing green fields in front of tall mountains. One in a set of 7 paintings of Hawaii.

Subject: landscape; mountain; fields; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.578

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Hanalai - Kauai

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.168

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.168

Description: Golden sandy beach in the immediate foreground becoming larger to the right and extending right to meet a dark coastline that reaches around past mid-centre of the painting. White, grey, blue and green ocean waves, froth and surf meet a dark blue, grey sky with long white storm clouds.

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Hanalai - Kauai

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.5 cm

Description: Golden sandy beach in the immediate foreground becoming larger to the right and extending right to meet a dark coastline that reaches around past mid-centre of the painting. White, grey, blue and green ocean waves, froth and surf meet a dark blue, grey sky with long white storm clouds.

Subject: seascape; Pacific; Hawaii; ocean; beach

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.168

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Hanalei Bay, Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.035

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.035

Description: Colour: teal blue, black, grey. Across the bottom and up the right side are rocks and cliffs. The water sits center becoming white and frothy near the rocks. The far shore is dark a single purple mountain can be seen behind right of center. Layers of grey clouds fill the upper third.

1 image

Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Hanalei Bay, Hawaii

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: teal blue, black, grey. Across the bottom and up the right side are rocks and cliffs. The water sits center becoming white and frothy near the rocks. The far shore is dark a single purple mountain can be seen behind right of center. Layers of grey clouds fill the upper third.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.035

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.005

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.005

Description: Three trees dot the immediate foreground on the middle to right corner. Behind the trees is the ocean with it's colours of blues and greenish yellow tints of colour. The upper half of the canvas depicts a sky of royal and cobalt bluish tints meeting the horizon line.

1 image

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Three trees dot the immediate foreground on the middle to right corner. Behind the trees is the ocean with it's colours of blues and greenish yellow tints of colour. The upper half of the canvas depicts a sky of royal and cobalt bluish tints meeting the horizon line.

Subject: seascape; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.005

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.015

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.015

Description: A wave encompasses two thirds of the sketch. The wave crashes onto the impending rocks in the foreground.

1 image

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: A wave encompasses two thirds of the sketch. The wave crashes onto the impending rocks in the foreground.

Subject: seascape, Pacific Ocean; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.015

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.016

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.016

Description: The sketch is painted from a high point overlooking fields in front of a Hawaiian bay. There is one ship in the harbour.

1 image

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: The sketch is painted from a high point overlooking fields in front of a Hawaiian bay. There is one ship in the harbour.

Subject: seascape, Pacific Ocean; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.016

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.017

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.017

Description: Beams of light from clouds shine onto the ground below. A winding stream zigzags it's way from the foreground to the midground where it flows into a lake.

1 image

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Beams of light from clouds shine onto the ground below. A winding stream zigzags it's way from the foreground to the midground where it flows into a lake.

Subject: landscape; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.017

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.018

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.018

Description: Water and waves.

1 image

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Water and waves.

Subject: seascape, Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.018

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.019

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.019

Description: Trees bordering coast. Blue rock cliffs jut out into the sea in the mid ground. The pale blue sky meets the horizon line in the background.

1 image

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Trees bordering coast. Blue rock cliffs jut out into the sea in the mid ground. The pale blue sky meets the horizon line in the background.

Subject: seascape, Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.019

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Hawaii

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.020

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.020

Description: A cottage with a shed beside it. A tall tree stands to the left of the house. The house overlooks the sea. A jutting rock in the upper right corner extends into the ocean.

1 image

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: A cottage with a shed beside it. A tall tree stands to the left of the house. The house overlooks the sea. A jutting rock in the upper right corner extends into the ocean.