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Design for pin

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil; graphite; charcoal on canvas; board

Catalogue Number: RuC.01.06 a,b

Description: (a) a painting in colours blue, brown. In a circular format, a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are snow-covered mountains in the background and blue sky.(b) a drawing in charcoal and pencil of the above painting: a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretc…

Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Title: Design for pin

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil; graphite; charcoal on canvas; board

Dimensions: 30.5 x 30.5 cm

Description: (a) a painting in colours blue, brown. In a circular format, a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are snow-covered mountains in the background and blue sky.(b) a drawing in charcoal and pencil of the above painting: a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are mountains in the background.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; activity, skiing; winter; figure, male

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: RuC.01.06 a,b

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Exclusive Edition, ASAC Winter Retreat, Lake Louise

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 1990

Medium: serigraph on paper

Catalogue Number: SmA.04.18

Description: A serigraph print of landscape with pale blue mat. Landscape of Lake Louise in the wintertime. In background there is a mountain range with Victoria Glacier. Below mountains is a snow-covered Lake Louise. In the foreground there are two small pine trees both covered with snow. One is far left and t…

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Exclusive Edition, ASAC Winter Retreat, Lake Louise

Date: 1990

Medium: serigraph on paper

Dimensions: 16.0 x 24.0 cm

Description: A serigraph print of landscape with pale blue mat. Landscape of Lake Louise in the wintertime. In background there is a mountain range with Victoria Glacier. Below mountains is a snow-covered Lake Louise. In the foreground there are two small pine trees both covered with snow. One is far left and the other far right with a snow-covered bush beside it. there are tracks on the snow. The print is comprised of seven colours, a palette of soft blue, white, green and brown/yellow. Across the bottom is an artist inscription and title of the work. The artist signature is in the bottom right corner. Au verso there are two large labels. The one on the left is white with black print, “SERIGRAPHY BY SALTIEL” (followed by description of serigraph process) Bottom half of label reads, “ CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY This document certifies that the original serigraph titled : Exclusive Edition, ASAC Winter Retreat, Lake Louise is number A/P #4 of titled, signed and numbered serigraphs in an edition of only 50 plus 13 artist’s proofs. 7 colours have been used to create this image, printed on 100% cotton rag Stonehenge paper. Upon completion the screen is destroyed. Artist’s signature: Saltiel Date completed: November 6, 1990.” The label on the right side is white with black ink and has an image of the artist in the top left corner, see artist bio.

Subject: landscape; winter; Alice Saltiel

Credit: Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2011

Catalogue Number: SmA.04.18

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Filling in the Bathtubs

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.029

Description: Colour: orange, green and blue on yellow and blue. Yellow slope covered with figures all carrying shovels. There are two paths coming down from the upper ridge at left. Both skiers at the end of the path are buried in snow. Two figures at the lower end of the right path are measuring the width of t…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Filling in the Bathtubs

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 100.1 x 74.6 cm

Description: Colour: orange, green and blue on yellow and blue. Yellow slope covered with figures all carrying shovels. There are two paths coming down from the upper ridge at left. Both skiers at the end of the path are buried in snow. Two figures at the lower end of the right path are measuring the width of the path. The sky is clear blue above where seven skiers stand waiting their turn.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; figure; group; activity; skiing; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.029

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Fort Simpson, MacKenzie River

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1927

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.49

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Fort Simpson, MacKenzie River

Date: 1927

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 8.2 x 13.1 cm

Subject: landscape; mountains; river, McKenzie; winter; fort, Simpson; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.49

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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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Fossil Mountain from Skoki Lodge

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.300

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Fossil Mountain from Skoki Lodge

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.6 x 27.8 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.300

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

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Going for Gold

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Artist: Harry Francis O'Hanlon (1916 – 1996, Canadian)

Date: 1985

Catalogue Number: OhH.06.02

Description: A male racer in full downhill speed; realistically rendered in garv and style. The figurine is ca. 22.0 high on a slanted oval base. The base is raised from the bottom base with a curved arm ca. 1.5 square x ca. 10.0 high; the oval bronze base is ca. 1.5 high which sits on a wooden oval base 2.5 th…

Artist: Harry Francis O'Hanlon (1916 – 1996, Canadian)

Title: Going for Gold

Date: 1985

Dimensions: 32.0 x 33.7 cm

Description: A male racer in full downhill speed; realistically rendered in garv and style. The figurine is ca. 22.0 high on a slanted oval base. The base is raised from the bottom base with a curved arm ca. 1.5 square x ca. 10.0 high; the oval bronze base is ca. 1.5 high which sits on a wooden oval base 2.5 thick and ca. 21.0 diameter.

Subject: activity; winter; skiing; figure; male

Credit: Gift of Harry Francis O'Hanlon, Calgary, 1990

Catalogue Number: OhH.06.02

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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.01.252

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Grindelwald, Switzerland

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.2 x 34.8 cm

Subject: landscape; mountains; winter; archtecture; urban

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.252

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Hockey

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Artist: George Webber

Date: 1999 – 2000

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.40

Description: Group of people playing hockey in the winter. Photograph taken at the Little Bow Hutterite Colony in Southern Alberta.

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Artist: George Webber

Title: Hockey

Date: 1999 – 2000

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 11” x 14” cm

Description: Group of people playing hockey in the winter. Photograph taken at the Little Bow Hutterite Colony in Southern Alberta.

Subject: documentary photography; hockey; colony; winter; games

Credit: Gift of George Webber, Calgary, 2014

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.40

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Ice Elbow

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Artist: John Davenall Turner (1900 – 1980, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: on wood board

Catalogue Number: TuJ.02.01

Description: Blue skies oversee hills and bare trees. Snow covers the ground while a small river cuts through the landscape.

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Artist: John Davenall Turner (1900 – 1980, Canadian)

Title: Ice Elbow

Date: n.d.

Medium: on wood board

Dimensions: 25.4 x 33.66 cm

Description: Blue skies oversee hills and bare trees. Snow covers the ground while a small river cuts through the landscape.

Subject: lanscape; hills; Turner; winter

Credit: Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2017

Catalogue Number: TuJ.02.01

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Idealized Landscape

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.173

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Idealized Landscape

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35.0 x 27.5 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; winter; snow; ski trail

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.173

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

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Ike Mills Bringing the Skoki Stove

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.032

Description: Colour: brown, blue, white. A team of seven dogs pulls a sled with a stove on it and a driver behind wearing snow shoes, coat and hat, brandishes a whip. It is moving to the right across white snow. The sky is blue and comes down to meet a white mountain peak of snow left of center in the upper hal…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Ike Mills Bringing the Skoki Stove

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 45.6 x 78.6 cm

Description: Colour: brown, blue, white. A team of seven dogs pulls a sled with a stove on it and a driver behind wearing snow shoes, coat and hat, brandishes a whip. It is moving to the right across white snow. The sky is blue and comes down to meet a white mountain peak of snow left of center in the upper half. Pete painted this to go over Ike's fireplace, where it hung for 30 years.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; transportation; figure, male; animal; dog; Ike Mills

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.032

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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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The Intruder

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Artist: Reinhold H. Palenske (1884 – 1955, American)

Date: n.d.

Medium: etching on paper

Catalogue Number: PeR.04.01

Description: General colour: black on white. Two deer leap through snow to the left - one towards the viewer - the other away. In the upper right area a skier is seen between mounds of snow. The lower part of a tree is up under. Behind, in the distance across the top are trees, hills and sky.

Artist: Reinhold H. Palenske (1884 – 1955, American)

Title: The Intruder

Date: n.d.

Medium: etching on paper

Dimensions: 20.5 x 25 cm

Description: General colour: black on white. Two deer leap through snow to the left - one towards the viewer - the other away. In the upper right area a skier is seen between mounds of snow. The lower part of a tree is up under. Behind, in the distance across the top are trees, hills and sky.

Subject: animal, deer; activity, skiing; landscape; winter; figure, male

Credit: Gift of Fern Brewster Dooley, Banff, 1966

Catalogue Number: PeR.04.01

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Jumping onto Frozen Little Bow River

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Artist: George Webber

Date: 2000 – 2000

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.41

Description: Young children about to jump onto frozen Little Bow River in the winter. Photograph taken at the Little Bow Hutterite Colony in Southern Alberta.

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Artist: George Webber

Title: Jumping onto Frozen Little Bow River

Date: 2000 – 2000

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 11” x 14” cm

Description: Young children about to jump onto frozen Little Bow River in the winter. Photograph taken at the Little Bow Hutterite Colony in Southern Alberta.

Subject: documentary photography; winter; colony

Credit: Gift of George Webber, Calgary, 2014

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.41

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Karlukwees, British Columbia

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

Date: 1929

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.05

Description: Colour: grey, white. A row of snow roofed brown and grey buildings go from the lower left to the right side two thirds up in a crescent line and diminishing in size. Along the lower edge at the left are bare branches, at center is a small building, at right is the corner of a snowy roof. At th righ…

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

Title: Karlukwees, British Columbia

Date: 1929

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 26.1 x 31.55 cm

Description: Colour: grey, white. A row of snow roofed brown and grey buildings go from the lower left to the right side two thirds up in a crescent line and diminishing in size. Along the lower edge at the left are bare branches, at center is a small building, at right is the corner of a snowy roof. At th right side is the edge of a lake, a dock with a boat tied up on either side. There are two buildings near the dock and to ? here and thre in front of the buildings. In the upper third is the vague outline of trees. Snow falls in big flakes all over the picture.