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Scree Slopes, Bow Lake
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.081
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.081
- Description
- Colour: green, brown, blue grey. The lower third is a calm green lake with a dead tree at the left side. A brown mountain rises up from the lake to the right side filling the upper right two thirds. The upper left two thirds is purple mountains in the distance with a green shore and grey and blue s…
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- Title
- Scree Slopes, Bow Lake
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 35 cm
- Description
- Colour: green, brown, blue grey. The lower third is a calm green lake with a dead tree at the left side. A brown mountain rises up from the lake to the right side filling the upper right two thirds. The upper left two thirds is purple mountains in the distance with a green shore and grey and blue sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.081
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Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.015
- Date
- 1945 – 1950
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.015
- Description
- Colour: green, grey, purple. Lower half is meadow with a stream from the center to lower left corner. Trees dot the middleground. In the upper half is a lake at center and mountains beyond. Grey sky fills the upper left corner and across the top.
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- Title
- Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier
- Date
- 1945 – 1950
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 63.5 x 76.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: green, grey, purple. Lower half is meadow with a stream from the center to lower left corner. Trees dot the middleground. In the upper half is a lake at center and mountains beyond. Grey sky fills the upper left corner and across the top.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.015
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Athabasca Glacier
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- 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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- 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
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- glacier
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.002
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Corral at Bow Lake
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.003
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.003
- Description
- Colour: green, grey, blue. In the foreground there are a few trees and grass which meet a fence one third up. At the gate on the right side stands a figure. Behind the fence is a cabin left and trees left and right allowing the turquoise lake in the distance to appear left of center. The mountain p…
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- Title
- Corral at Bow Lake
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 51 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: green, grey, blue. In the foreground there are a few trees and grass which meet a fence one third up. At the gate on the right side stands a figure. Behind the fence is a cabin left and trees left and right allowing the turquoise lake in the distance to appear left of center. The mountain peak beyond has snow on it and meets sky left of center in the upper area. Sky is clouded.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.003
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Ice Blocks, Toe, Athabasca Glacier
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- Date
- 1942
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.012
- Description
- Colour: blue. Huge chunks of ice fill the lower three quarters of the picture. Behind to the left is a dark ridge of rock. Behind at center is a purple ridge of mountain with sky in the upper right corner and across the upper edge to left of center.
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- Title
- Ice Blocks, Toe, Athabasca Glacier
- Date
- 1942
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 63 x 76 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue. Huge chunks of ice fill the lower three quarters of the picture. Behind to the left is a dark ridge of rock. Behind at center is a purple ridge of mountain with sky in the upper right corner and across the upper edge to left of center.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- glacier
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.012
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Pilot Mountain and Massive Range
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.111
- Date
- 1940 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.111
- Description
- Colour: yellow, blue. Yellow aspens fill the lower half of the picture. Above are mountains, three peaks and grey sky.
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- Title
- Pilot Mountain and Massive Range
- Date
- 1940 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 25.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: yellow, blue. Yellow aspens fill the lower half of the picture. Above are mountains, three peaks and grey sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.111
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Untitled [Stoney Encampment]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.074
- Date
- 1945 – 1950
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.074
- Description
- A daytime scene of a Stoney encampment. At the left of the painting there is a looming teepee which appears to be in the immediate foreground. The encampment forms a circle in front of the viewer with the teepees at their smallest in the distance in the middle of the painting. The teepees are a…
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- Title
- Untitled [Stoney Encampment]
- Date
- 1945 – 1950
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 74.0 x 165.0 cm
- Description
- A daytime scene of a Stoney encampment. At the left of the painting there is a looming teepee which appears to be in the immediate foreground. The encampment forms a circle in front of the viewer with the teepees at their smallest in the distance in the middle of the painting. The teepees are a variety of colours. In the middle of the painting behind the encampment are green rolling hills and beyond the hills are grey mountains. People are milling about within the encampment. The sky is blue but across the entire top of the painting there are grey clouds.
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Paris, Banff, 1989
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.074
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Season’s Greetings Catharine and Peter ‘47
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.04.39
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- ink; coloured inks; watercolours on paper; card
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.04.39
- Description
- Final print of Christmas Card, depicting a woman (Catharine?) on the interior door of the Whyte home looking at all the animals gathered outside which include: a moose, a deer, a coyote, a fox, a squirrel, and some birds. Above the scene is text that reads: “SEASONS GREETINGS”. On the bottom left …
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- Title
- Season’s Greetings Catharine and Peter ‘47
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- ink; coloured inks; watercolours on paper; card
- Dimensions
- 10.9 x 16.3 cm
- Description
- Final print of Christmas Card, depicting a woman (Catharine?) on the interior door of the Whyte home looking at all the animals gathered outside which include: a moose, a deer, a coyote, a fox, a squirrel, and some birds. Above the scene is text that reads: “SEASONS GREETINGS”. On the bottom left corner text reads: “CATHARINE AND PETER”. BRC Peter’s signature and “‘47”See WyP.03.718 and WyP.03.960 for previous tester and versions.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.04.39
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- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour; on paper;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.01
- Description
- Spiral-bound sketchbook with brown thick card stock covers that belonged to Peter Whyte. Printed on the front cover is “The Beverly Spiral Sketch Book, (Rough Surface), For Pencil, Watercolors, Crayon and Ink, M” in dark brown. Sketches feature Christmas card ideas, figure studies, teepee interiors…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour; on paper;
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 22.4 cm
- Description
- Spiral-bound sketchbook with brown thick card stock covers that belonged to Peter Whyte. Printed on the front cover is “The Beverly Spiral Sketch Book, (Rough Surface), For Pencil, Watercolors, Crayon and Ink, M” in dark brown. Sketches feature Christmas card ideas, figure studies, teepee interiors, rows of teepees with people in front/around them, animals, a house [done in watercolour paints, possibly by a child named Ian], and the funeral of Chief David Bearspaw, 1956. Some pages appear to have been torn from other sketchbooks and inserted in this one - there are also smaller papers of sketches folded up and tucked between the pages.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.01
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- Date
- 1940 – 1955
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.14
- Description
- A sketchbook with a black spine and pressed paper cover in black and white. A rectangular label in the middle of the front cover bears the manufacturer’s logo but is otherwise blank. Contents include figure studies of mostly skiers, a detailed mock-up for a painting of [possibly] Indian Days, a ser…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1940 – 1955
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Dimensions
- 25.6 x 19.7 cm
- Description
- A sketchbook with a black spine and pressed paper cover in black and white. A rectangular label in the middle of the front cover bears the manufacturer’s logo but is otherwise blank. Contents include figure studies of mostly skiers, a detailed mock-up for a painting of [possibly] Indian Days, a series of cartoon-style sketches of someone referred to as Gramma in Holmenkolrendt Norway, and a list of supplies [possibly going to or coming from Skoki] at the back of the book.
- Subject
- drawing
- sketching
- skiing
- figure study
- Norway
- Indigenous Peoples
- Banff Indian Days
- Peter Whyte;
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.14
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- Date
- 1943 – 1945
- Medium
- graphite; ink; on paper;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.17
- Description
- Metal coil-bound flip-style sketchbook with cardboard covers manufactured by The Hughes-Owens Co. Ltd. “WIRE-O BOUND, Sketch Book, A 726” printed on the front cover with “SERGEANT WHYTE, R222178” written in pencil around the border line at the top of the cover. Contents include figure studies of me…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1943 – 1945
- Medium
- graphite; ink; on paper;
- Dimensions
- 26.1 x 17.7 cm
- Description
- Metal coil-bound flip-style sketchbook with cardboard covers manufactured by The Hughes-Owens Co. Ltd. “WIRE-O BOUND, Sketch Book, A 726” printed on the front cover with “SERGEANT WHYTE, R222178” written in pencil around the border line at the top of the cover. Contents include figure studies of men undertaking various tasks, military planes [including details of parts like wheels and tail rudders], hangars, barracks, landscapes, and sketch ideas for paintings.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.17
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- Date
- 1944 – 1944
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.20
- Description
- Pressed paper coil-bound sketchbook with dark brown covers. “ARTCRAFT SKETCH BOOK ROUGH” as well as manufacturer details printed on the front cover in black. Contents include sketches of various planes and air base scenes, as well as sketches of people dated July 1944.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1944 – 1944
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Dimensions
- 25.3 x 36.1 cm
- Description
- Pressed paper coil-bound sketchbook with dark brown covers. “ARTCRAFT SKETCH BOOK ROUGH” as well as manufacturer details printed on the front cover in black. Contents include sketches of various planes and air base scenes, as well as sketches of people dated July 1944.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.20
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Athabasca Glacier
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- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.104
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- 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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Mount Athabasca
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.146
- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.146
- Description
- Large evergreen to viewer’s left, green grass some grey rocks foreground and to right. Snow-covered Mount Athabasa dominates painting; white clouds, blue sky.
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- Title
- Mount Athabasca
- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 35.0 cm
- Description
- Large evergreen to viewer’s left, green grass some grey rocks foreground and to right. Snow-covered Mount Athabasa dominates painting; white clouds, blue sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountains;
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.146
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- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.115
- Description
- Bottom two thirds is a blue green lake with reflections of trees and mountain in the centre. The trees form a V-shape with a snow covered mountain in the centre. A yellow and brown slope emerges from the lake at the left, dark green trees in background with the snow slope to the top right.
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- Title
- Lake Louise
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.2 x 30.2 cm
- Description
- Bottom two thirds is a blue green lake with reflections of trees and mountain in the centre. The trees form a V-shape with a snow covered mountain in the centre. A yellow and brown slope emerges from the lake at the left, dark green trees in background with the snow slope to the top right.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.115
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RCAF Airfield, Tofino
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.090
- Date
- 1944
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.090
- Description
- Two grey airplanes fly over a landing strip in foreground. To the right of strip are two red vehicles, some tall green evergreens behind them. Other side of airstrip are some buildings with the silhouette of mountains in the background. A grey streaked sky is top half.
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- Title
- RCAF Airfield, Tofino
- Date
- 1944
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.6 x 35.0 cm
- Description
- Two grey airplanes fly over a landing strip in foreground. To the right of strip are two red vehicles, some tall green evergreens behind them. Other side of airstrip are some buildings with the silhouette of mountains in the background. A grey streaked sky is top half.
- Subject
- transportation
- World War
- mountains
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.090
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RCAF Hangar, Tofino
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.091
- Date
- 1943 – 1944
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.091
- Description
- Two large stumps surrounded by other fallen timber is in the foreground. Behind them is a low, grey building at centre . Another peaked building with some trees can be seen in the background. The sky is cloudy and covers the top half of the picture.
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- Title
- RCAF Hangar, Tofino
- Date
- 1943 – 1944
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.6 x 35.0 cm
- Description
- Two large stumps surrounded by other fallen timber is in the foreground. Behind them is a low, grey building at centre . Another peaked building with some trees can be seen in the background. The sky is cloudy and covers the top half of the picture.
- Subject
- transportation
- World War
- military
- Tofino
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.091
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- Date
- 1944
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.092
- Description
- A grey road runs from left of centre bottom to the left at the centre, on either side are buildings including a church to the left. To the right at centre is the blue ocean and rimming it to the left are green trees. Two large stumps are at left and right in foreground. Cloudy streaked sky is t…
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- Title
- Tofino
- Date
- 1944
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 35.1 cm
- Description
- A grey road runs from left of centre bottom to the left at the centre, on either side are buildings including a church to the left. To the right at centre is the blue ocean and rimming it to the left are green trees. Two large stumps are at left and right in foreground. Cloudy streaked sky is top quarter.
- Subject
- architecture
- urban
- Pacific Ocean
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.092
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- Date
- 1944
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.093
- Description
- Roof tops and houses, including at church to the left, cover bottom half of picture, a grey road meanders between the buildings. Green mountains in background. Streaked grey sky covers top third.
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- Title
- Tofino
- Date
- 1944
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.6 x 35.1 cm
- Description
- Roof tops and houses, including at church to the left, cover bottom half of picture, a grey road meanders between the buildings. Green mountains in background. Streaked grey sky covers top third.
- Subject
- transportation
- World War
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.093
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Columbia Icefield, Athabasca Glacier
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- Date
- 1940 – 1945
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.158
- Description
- A large gnarled, dead grey and brown tree with long brances is centre leaning left. Fall vegetation, rust-coloured, is in the immediate foreground, evergeens to the right. The icefield dominates the painting spilling to moraine lower and right, grey-blue flanks to each side and a cloudy white sky.
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- Title
- Columbia Icefield, Athabasca Glacier
- Date
- 1940 – 1945
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- A large gnarled, dead grey and brown tree with long brances is centre leaning left. Fall vegetation, rust-coloured, is in the immediate foreground, evergeens to the right. The icefield dominates the painting spilling to moraine lower and right, grey-blue flanks to each side and a cloudy white sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.158
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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