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Grain Elevator at LaSalle, Manitoba

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.21

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Grain Elevator at LaSalle, Manitoba

Date: 1931

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 19.8 x 31.1 cm

Subject: landscape; prairie; architecture; rural

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.21

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Grindelwald, Switzerland

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.002

Description: Colour: green, brown, blue. Foreground is snow patches. Central image, night of canter is a log cabin. To the left is a scrawny tree and behind the cabin is a bare fill. In the background are three more cabins with green and blue shutters, situated on the green slope. Across the upper left corner i…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Grindelwald, Switzerland

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: green, brown, blue. Foreground is snow patches. Central image, night of canter is a log cabin. To the left is a scrawny tree and behind the cabin is a bare fill. In the background are three more cabins with green and blue shutters, situated on the green slope. Across the upper left corner is the forest.

Subject: landscape; mountain; winter; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.002

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Hogg Island, Nassau

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.205

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Hogg Island, Nassau

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.8 x 35.4 cm

Subject: seascape; figures, bathers; group; architecture; hut; Nassau

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.205

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Honolulu, Hawaii

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.045

Description: Colour: green, blue, yellow, rust red. Looking down from a foreground of cacters in the lower left corner, on a town and a harbour. There is an island up right meeting the horizon at the three quarters mark. Above is sky.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Honolulu, Hawaii

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: green, blue, yellow, rust red. Looking down from a foreground of cacters in the lower left corner, on a town and a harbour. There is an island up right meeting the horizon at the three quarters mark. Above is sky.

Subject: seascape; architecture; urban; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.045

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Ike's Place

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.185

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Ike's Place

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; architecture; building, Ike Mill's home; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.185

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Kauai, Hawaii

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.049

Description: Colour: blue, green. There is water in the lower right corner. A beach runs across from lower left to a quarter way up the right side. On the shore at the left side are buildings and a clump of frees at center. In the distance at the right are more buildings and trees. Hills rise up from these to g…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Kauai, Hawaii

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green. There is water in the lower right corner. A beach runs across from lower left to a quarter way up the right side. On the shore at the left side are buildings and a clump of frees at center. In the distance at the right are more buildings and trees. Hills rise up from these to green plains and dark blue mountains beyond. The grey clouds come down over the peaks and fill the upper third.

Subject: landscape; mountain; architecture; rural; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.049

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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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Klosters, Switzerland

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.001

Description: Colour: blue. A building in the lower left corner. Two roofs can be seen behind and five more buildings across the picture towards the night. There are three tall shrubs in the lower night corner. There is a bank of snow behind the buildings and mountain peaks beyond. Bit of clear blue sky at the u…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Klosters, Switzerland

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.8 x 34.9 cm

Description: Colour: blue. A building in the lower left corner. Two roofs can be seen behind and five more buildings across the picture towards the night. There are three tall shrubs in the lower night corner. There is a bank of snow behind the buildings and mountain peaks beyond. Bit of clear blue sky at the upper edge.

Subject: landscape; mountain; winter; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.001

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Klosters, Switzerland

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.003

Description: Colour: blue. A fence partly hidden by snow runs across the shadowed embankment half way up the picture. A row of brown buildings goes across the upper part. The forest and mountain peaks can be seen in the upper left corners.The sun comes from the right highlighting the areas not shadowed by the h…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Klosters, Switzerland

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue. A fence partly hidden by snow runs across the shadowed embankment half way up the picture. A row of brown buildings goes across the upper part. The forest and mountain peaks can be seen in the upper left corners.The sun comes from the right highlighting the areas not shadowed by the house.

Subject: landscape; mountain; winter; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.003

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Klosters, Switzerland

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.004

Description: Colour: blue, brown. At the lower right three figures haul a sled up to the left through blue snow drifts. There are five buildings: two in the foreground on each side and three in the background at the center. A dark hill rises on the right side. Cloudy sky beyond.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Klosters, Switzerland

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, brown. At the lower right three figures haul a sled up to the left through blue snow drifts. There are five buildings: two in the foreground on each side and three in the background at the center. A dark hill rises on the right side. Cloudy sky beyond.

Subject: landscape; mountain; winter; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.004

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Klosters, Switzerland

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.005

Description: Colour: blue, white, brown, yellow. A group of houses with white snowy roofs are encircled by blue snow banks. A brown fence can be seen at the lower left side. In the upper right corner the building there is barely painted in, much of the bare canvas shows through.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Klosters, Switzerland

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, white, brown, yellow. A group of houses with white snowy roofs are encircled by blue snow banks. A brown fence can be seen at the lower left side. In the upper right corner the building there is barely painted in, much of the bare canvas shows through.

Subject: landscape; mountain; winter; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.005

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Klosters, Switzerland

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.006

Description: Colour: white, blue, brown. Seven little cabins sit nestled in snowy hills. Three on the left and four on the right. A fence runs down right then down left at center. In the lower left corner is a large blue shadowed snow bank. In the background are trees with two snowy trails coming from each side…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Klosters, Switzerland

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.7 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: white, blue, brown. Seven little cabins sit nestled in snowy hills. Three on the left and four on the right. A fence runs down right then down left at center. In the lower left corner is a large blue shadowed snow bank. In the background are trees with two snowy trails coming from each side to behind the houses at center.

Subject: landscape; mountain; winter; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.006

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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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Merok, Norway

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.012

Description: Colour: green, grey. Upper canvas is green and blue mountain slopes and grey sky. Lower canvas is mostly grey water with buildings. A dock in the right corner and a tree in the left corner and part way up the left.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Merok, Norway

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35 x 27.5 cm

Description: Colour: green, grey. Upper canvas is green and blue mountain slopes and grey sky. Lower canvas is mostly grey water with buildings. A dock in the right corner and a tree in the left corner and part way up the left.

Subject: landscape; mountain; winter; architecture; rural; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.012

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Miki's House, Hanalei

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.040

Description: Colour: green. A wide green field in the foreground leads up to a group of buildings in the center. There is a fence at the left side and a tree at the right. A hill rises up behind and darker hills beyond. Across the top is a grey sky.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Miki's House, Hanalei

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: green. A wide green field in the foreground leads up to a group of buildings in the center. There is a fence at the left side and a tree at the right. A hill rises up behind and darker hills beyond. Across the top is a grey sky.

Subject: mountain; architecture; rural; Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.040

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Narrow street

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1920

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.486

Description: Pencil drawing of a narrow street, winding through buildings that begin in the immediate foreground. There is a tower with crenellation and cupola in distance.verso: indecipherable writing, oriented upside down at bottom

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Narrow street

Date: c. 1920

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.5 x 19.5 cm

Description: Pencil drawing of a narrow street, winding through buildings that begin in the immediate foreground. There is a tower with crenellation and cupola in distance.verso: indecipherable writing, oriented upside down at bottom

Subject: streetscape; tower; architecture; street

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.486

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The New Plant at the Gap - Banff Road

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: 1936

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.05.04

Description: An industrial plant is situated next to the side of the mountain. This may be a gravel plant or perhaps a cement plant somewhere near Exshaw.

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: The New Plant at the Gap - Banff Road

Date: 1936

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: An industrial plant is situated next to the side of the mountain. This may be a gravel plant or perhaps a cement plant somewhere near Exshaw.

Subject: architecture; industrial plant; landscape; Canadian Rockies; The Gap; Exshaw

Credit: Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997

Catalogue Number: GyH.05.04

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Nigatsu-do Temple

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Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)

Date: 1912

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: YoH.04.02

Description: Colour: brown, blue. The inner roof of the temple fills the top third of the picture. It is held up by four posts. Lights hang down. There are four people by the lower left corner of the building. Evening blue sky fills the backgrund across the center third

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Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)

Title: Nigatsu-do Temple

Date: 1912

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 25.7 x 36.7 cm

Description: Colour: brown, blue. The inner roof of the temple fills the top third of the picture. It is held up by four posts. Lights hang down. There are four people by the lower left corner of the building. Evening blue sky fills the backgrund across the center third