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- Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian) 10
- Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian) 5
- Serena Matilda Potts (1812 – 1898, American) 5
- Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian) 4
- Unknown 2
- E. Doyle 1
- Mary Vaux Walcott (1860 – 1940, American) 1
- Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian) 1
- William Cassels 1
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- oil on canvas on cardboard
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.025
- Description
- A large tree next to water.
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- Title
- Bermuda
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- oil on canvas on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 12.6 x 17.8 cm
- Description
- A large tree next to water.
- Subject
- seascape, Caribbean
- botanical
- tree
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.025
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Calypso bulbosa (Calypso Orchid/Pink Fairy's Slipper)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.19
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.19
- Description
- A single green stem from bottom centre curves to centre with 2 flowers, both are dark pink with yellow centre, pink petals flare out from bottom of flowers.
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- Title
- Calypso bulbosa (Calypso Orchid/Pink Fairy's Slipper)
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.3 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- A single green stem from bottom centre curves to centre with 2 flowers, both are dark pink with yellow centre, pink petals flare out from bottom of flowers.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.19
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Dodecathem meadia (Shooting Star)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.09
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.09
- Description
- Short, thick green leaves cluster at base, 4 long pink stems extend from root; dart-like pink and yellow flowers at top of stems.
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- Title
- Dodecathem meadia (Shooting Star)
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- Short, thick green leaves cluster at base, 4 long pink stems extend from root; dart-like pink and yellow flowers at top of stems.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.09
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Eriophorum augustifolium Roth (Tassel Cottongrass)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwam.04.02
- Date
- 1932
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WaM.04.02
- Description
- (a) A commerical print with tassel cottongrass on right page; 2 green stems rise from bottom edge, each has numerous tufts of cottongrass;(b) the facing page has a Tennyson poem in silver; hand written in pen: “With all good wishes for Christmas & The New Year from Mary Vaux Walcott 1932-1933”
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- Title
- Eriophorum augustifolium Roth (Tassel Cottongrass)
- Date
- 1932
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 17.0 cm
- Description
- (a) A commerical print with tassel cottongrass on right page; 2 green stems rise from bottom edge, each has numerous tufts of cottongrass;(b) the facing page has a Tennyson poem in silver; hand written in pen: “With all good wishes for Christmas & The New Year from Mary Vaux Walcott 1932-1933”
- Subject
- botanical
- cottongrass
- Mary Vaux Walcott
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WaM.04.02
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Erythronium grandiflorum (Glacier Lily)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.12
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.12
- Description
- A thick green leaf rises from centre left at the bottom of the picture to top right; from inside the leaf protrude 2 yellow blossoms.
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- Title
- Erythronium grandiflorum (Glacier Lily)
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- A thick green leaf rises from centre left at the bottom of the picture to top right; from inside the leaf protrude 2 yellow blossoms.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.12
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Eucephalus engelmannii (Engelmann's Aster/Aster engelmannii)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.07
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.07
- Description
- One green stem with green leaves, branches out near the top into 6 stems with smaller leaves, and an open, pink and yellow flower on the end.
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- Title
- Eucephalus engelmannii (Engelmann's Aster/Aster engelmannii)
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- One green stem with green leaves, branches out near the top into 6 stems with smaller leaves, and an open, pink and yellow flower on the end.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.07
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Hawaiian Sunset
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.577
- Date
- 1933 – 1934
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.577
- Description
- Painting showing an empty beach. Silhouettes of trees in the foreground. One in a set of 7 paintings from Hawaii.
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- Title
- Hawaiian Sunset
- Date
- 1933 – 1934
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 17.6 cm
- Description
- Painting showing an empty beach. Silhouettes of trees in the foreground. One in a set of 7 paintings from Hawaii.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.577
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- Date
- 1933
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.031
- Description
- Tropical tree.
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- Title
- Kauai, Hawaii
- Date
- 1933
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 12.6 x 17.8 cm
- Description
- Tropical tree.
- Subject
- botanical
- Lauhala trees
- Hawaii
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.031
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Lake of the Woods
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactphw.04.24
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.24
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- Title
- Lake of the Woods
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Dimensions
- 16.7 x 24.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.24
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Larch in Snow (Mt. Assiniboine Trip)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.023
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.023
- Description
- Yellow larch in snow.
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- Title
- Larch in Snow (Mt. Assiniboine Trip)
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 12.6 x 17.8 cm
- Description
- Yellow larch in snow.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.023
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.350
- Description
- Thin line of green grass along bottom of painting, trc shading on the water, which is the background for all of the study, very elegantly placed larch tree in foreground with two trunks, one branches more to the right the other one branches towards the tlc, the leaves glisten with sunlight.
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- Title
- Larch Trees
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 22.7 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Thin line of green grass along bottom of painting, trc shading on the water, which is the background for all of the study, very elegantly placed larch tree in foreground with two trunks, one branches more to the right the other one branches towards the tlc, the leaves glisten with sunlight.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- botanical
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.350
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.326
- Description
- Two (Larch) trees with green, yellow, and orange branches, the background is a solid charcoal grey.
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- Title
- Larches
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 17.5 x 13.0 cm
- Description
- Two (Larch) trees with green, yellow, and orange branches, the background is a solid charcoal grey.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.326
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Lauhala Trees, Kauai
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.034
- Date
- 1933
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.034
- Description
- Colour: blue. From a mound on the left side grow two trees; four trunks in all, numberous roots and seven slumps of grass. At the lower right in the distance, two hills can be seen. The trees reach up to the top of the picture. Blue clouded sky behind.
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- Title
- Lauhala Trees, Kauai
- Date
- 1933
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 35 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue. From a mound on the left side grow two trees; four trunks in all, numberous roots and seven slumps of grass. At the lower right in the distance, two hills can be seen. The trees reach up to the top of the picture. Blue clouded sky behind.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.034
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Lonicera involucrata (Bracted Honeysuckle/Twinberry)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.30
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.30
- Description
- The plant has large green leaves and twin black berries on small red leaflets. Also has a yellow flower viewer’s left.
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- Title
- Lonicera involucrata (Bracted Honeysuckle/Twinberry)
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- The plant has large green leaves and twin black berries on small red leaflets. Also has a yellow flower viewer’s left.
- Credit
- Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.30
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Menziesia glabella (Western Menziesia)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.06
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.06
- Description
- A brown branch with clusters of green leaves, and bunches of light red tulip-like flowers, 4 on one stem, 6 on the other.
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- Title
- Menziesia glabella (Western Menziesia)
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- A brown branch with clusters of green leaves, and bunches of light red tulip-like flowers, 4 on one stem, 6 on the other.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.06
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Needlework Pattern
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactpos.07.01
- Date
- 1812 – 1898
- Medium
- gouache on paper; card
- Catalogue Number
- PoS.07.01
- Description
- Hand-painted needlwork pattern on gridded card depicting a small brown bird among a circle of foliage and roses. There are two gold filigrees in each of the top corners. The work is signed in the top right corner “S.M. Potts”The gridded box is labeled “2067” in the top right corner. Centered beneat…
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- Title
- Needlework Pattern
- Date
- 1812 – 1898
- Medium
- gouache on paper; card
- Dimensions
- 20.5 x 27.0 cm
- Description
- Hand-painted needlwork pattern on gridded card depicting a small brown bird among a circle of foliage and roses. There are two gold filigrees in each of the top corners. The work is signed in the top right corner “S.M. Potts”The gridded box is labeled “2067” in the top right corner. Centered beneath the box reads “Berlin bei L.W. Wittich, Frienzösische Str: No 43”. Translated from German, this reads “Berlin by L.W. Wittich, French Street: No 43.” In the bottom left corner of the grid, there is a “2.” written.
- Subject
- bird
- flower
- botanical
- nature
- floral
- needlework
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- PoS.07.01
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Needlework Pattern
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactpos.07.02
- Date
- 1812 – 1998
- Medium
- gouache on paper; card
- Catalogue Number
- PoS.07.02
- Description
- Hand-painted needlwork pattern on gridded card depicting a filigree of flowers, including deep pink roses, unknown blue flowers, and a gold decorative element in the center. The work is signed in the top right corner “S.M. Potts”.The gridded box is labeled “2549” in the top right corner. Centered b…
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- Title
- Needlework Pattern
- Date
- 1812 – 1998
- Medium
- gouache on paper; card
- Dimensions
- 19.0 x 26.5 cm
- Description
- Hand-painted needlwork pattern on gridded card depicting a filigree of flowers, including deep pink roses, unknown blue flowers, and a gold decorative element in the center. The work is signed in the top right corner “S.M. Potts”.The gridded box is labeled “2549” in the top right corner. Centered beneath the box reads “Berlin bei L.W. Wittich, Frienzösische Str: No 43”. Translated from German, this reads “Berlin by L.W. Wittich, French Street: No 43.”
- Subject
- botanical
- flower
- floral
- needlework
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- PoS.07.02
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Needlework Pattern
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactpos.07.07
- Date
- 1812 – 1898
- Medium
- Gouache on paper; card
- Catalogue Number
- PoS.07.07
- Description
- Hand-painted needlework pattern on gridded card depicting an assemblage of different kinds of plants and flowers in pinks, reds, blues, yellows and white. The foliage and flowers make a circular shape on the gridded card. The work is signed in the top left corner “S.M. Potts”. A piece of tape at th…
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- Title
- Needlework Pattern
- Date
- 1812 – 1898
- Medium
- Gouache on paper; card
- Dimensions
- 36.5 x 34.5 cm
- Description
- Hand-painted needlework pattern on gridded card depicting an assemblage of different kinds of plants and flowers in pinks, reds, blues, yellows and white. The foliage and flowers make a circular shape on the gridded card. The work is signed in the top left corner “S.M. Potts”. A piece of tape at the center bottom edge reads “S M Potts”
- Subject
- flower
- floral
- botanical
- needlework
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- PoS.07.07
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Needlework Pattern
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactpos.07.08
- Date
- 1812 – 1898
- Medium
- gouache on paper; card
- Catalogue Number
- PoS.07.08
- Description
- Hand-painted needlework pattern on gridded card depicting an assemblage of different kinds of plants and flowers in pinks, reds, blues, purples, yellows and white. The foliage and flowers make a circular shape on the gridded card. The work is signed in the left center edge “S.M. Potts”
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- Title
- Needlework Pattern
- Date
- 1812 – 1898
- Medium
- gouache on paper; card
- Dimensions
- 34.0 x 37.0 cm
- Description
- Hand-painted needlework pattern on gridded card depicting an assemblage of different kinds of plants and flowers in pinks, reds, blues, purples, yellows and white. The foliage and flowers make a circular shape on the gridded card. The work is signed in the left center edge “S.M. Potts”
- Subject
- flower
- floral
- botanical
- needlework
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- PoS.07.08
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Needlework Pattern
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactpos.07.10
- Date
- 1812 – 1898
- Medium
- gouache on paper; card
- Catalogue Number
- PoS.07.10
- Description
- Hand-painted needlework pattern on gridded card depicting a purple, yellow and red pansy wreath.The number 6726 is inscribed in the top right corner. This was most likely a number assigned to the pattern by it’s original pattern maker.
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- Title
- Needlework Pattern
- Date
- 1812 – 1898
- Medium
- gouache on paper; card
- Dimensions
- 20.5 x 14.5 cm
- Description
- Hand-painted needlework pattern on gridded card depicting a purple, yellow and red pansy wreath.The number 6726 is inscribed in the top right corner. This was most likely a number assigned to the pattern by it’s original pattern maker.
- Subject
- floral
- botanical
- wreath
- pansy
- pansies
- needlework
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- PoS.07.10
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