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Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1932
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.189
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley
Date
1932
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.8 x 35.4 cm
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
mountain
Cathedral Mountain
valley
Yoho
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.189
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Letters to Mother [August - December 1939]

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Part Of
Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
Scope & Content
File pertains to 56 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from August 1 to December 30, 1939. Topics include going on the annual Skyline Trail Hike to the Ptarmigan Valley in early August, day to day life, weather, painting/sketching [a mix of personal projects and…
Date Range
1939
Reference Code
M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 107
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Private record
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Part Of
Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M36 / V683 / S37
Series
I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs
Sous-Fonds
M36
Accession Number
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Reference Code
M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 107
GMD
Private record
Date Range
1939
Physical Description
1.7 cm of textual records (93 pages ; 20 x 24.9 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 56 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from August 1 to December 30, 1939. Topics include going on the annual Skyline Trail Hike to the Ptarmigan Valley in early August, day to day life, weather, painting/sketching [a mix of personal projects and commissions done both at home and out in the Park], visits from friends and visitors, slide making, photography and cameras [including colour photography], events and people in Concord, minor repairs/projects to the house and property [including installing a new water heater on the second floor], updates on Dave White's health, radio programs [mostly operas and the news], the declaration of war on Germany in early September [as well as details pertaining to local recruitment efforts and general preparations], day trips to Lake Louise, wildlife, descriptions of meals, Edith going to the 1939 World's Fair in New York City [September], construction on the new addition to the house throughout October [including a new furnace room, bathroom, and dark room on the ground floor, extending the studio on the second floor, and facing the side of the house in stone], cleaning and household chores, errand trips to Calgary, books Catharine and Edith are reading, a large blizzard at the end of October, birthdays, various holidays [both Canadian and American], attending first aid classes at the school, putting together the annual Christmas card, and various other Christmas activities and parties.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. All typed letters are written on a single side of paper, hand-written letters are mostly double-sided. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981. 107-19 contains a sketch of a mushroom on the back of the first page. 107-36 contains a sketch of the Whyte compound and details of the new extention to Pete and Catharine's house.
Name Access
Whyte, Catharine
Whyte, Peter
Robb, Edith Morse
Robb, Russell, Jr.
Robb, Kitty
White, Annie
White, David Mackintosh (Dave)
White, Clifford
White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.)
White, Bubby
White, Clifford J., Sr.
Stockand, Cameron
Stockand, Lila (White)
Moore, Pearl
Moore, Edmee
Moore, Phil
Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
Simpson, Billie
Simpson, Jimmy, Jr.
Simpson, Mary (Hallock)
Simpson, Margaret
Ward, Sam
Ward, Louise (Cis)
Rungius, Carl
Noble, George
Pocette, Mark
Bagley, Frederick A.
Watson, Sir Norman
Vaux, Mary
Reid, Charles
Subject Access
Activities
Animals
Art
Artists
Automobiles
Backcountry skiing
Banff
Banff Springs Hotel
Birds
Birthday
Books
Businesses
Children
Christmas
Cinema
Community events
Community life
Construction
Correspondence
Family
Family and personal life
First Nations
Home
Hospital
Hiking
Indigenous Peoples
Leisure
Literature
Mountain
Mount Royal Hotel
North West Mounted Police
Num-Ti-Jah Lodge
Painting
Personal and Family Life
Photography
Post Office
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RCMP
Scenery
Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
Trains
Transportation
Travel
Tunnel Mountain
War
Weather
Wildlife
Winter
World War II
WWII
World's Fair
Geographic Access
Banff
Lake Louise
Ptarmigan Valley
Yoho National Park
Banff National Park
Calgary
Alberta
Concord
Massachusetts
Canada
United States of America
Language
English
Creator
Robb Whyte, Catharine
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
Electronic Resources

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Rundle Mountain, Banff

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1930 – 1935
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.186
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Rundle Mountain, Banff
Date
1930 – 1935
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.8 x 35.4 cm
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
mountain, Rundle Mountain
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.186
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Above Geiranger Fjord, Norway

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1938
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.261
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Above Geiranger Fjord, Norway
Date
1938
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.2 x 34.7 cm
Subject
landscape
mountain
camp
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.261
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1935 – 1940
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.517
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Above Lake O'Hara
Date
1935 – 1940
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
28.0 x 35.2 cm
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
mountain
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.517
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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…
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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
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Alpine Club Cabin, Assiniboine

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1937
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.061
Description
Colour: blue. A snow scene. Two trees stand center and left reaching to the top of the picture. Another two trees grow on the right side. Between these is a snow covered log cabin. Trees can be seen vaguely in the distance. The sky behind is warm blue and fills the upper third.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Alpine Club Cabin, Assiniboine
Date
1937
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.5 x 35 cm
Description
Colour: blue. A snow scene. Two trees stand center and left reaching to the top of the picture. Another two trees grow on the right side. Between these is a snow covered log cabin. Trees can be seen vaguely in the distance. The sky behind is warm blue and fills the upper third.
Subject
landscape
mountain
Canadian Rockies
winter
architecture
rural
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.061
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1938
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.016
Description
Colour: grey, blue, brown. In the lower area to the left side is a brown slope. In the middle area there are three buildings; one left of center, two right of center. To the right side is a grey snow slope. Behind the houses across the picture is an abrupt rock face. Snow and rock slopes rise up to…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Andalsnes, Norway
Date
1938
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
35 x 27.5 cm
Description
Colour: grey, blue, brown. In the lower area to the left side is a brown slope. In the middle area there are three buildings; one left of center, two right of center. To the right side is a grey snow slope. Behind the houses across the picture is an abrupt rock face. Snow and rock slopes rise up to the left and right of it. Sky is in the upper right area.
Subject
landscape
mountain
winter
architecture
rural
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.016
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1938
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.263
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Andalsnes, Norway
Date
1938
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.2 x 34.8 cm
Subject
landscape
Norway
mountain
Peter Whyte
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.263
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Approaching Storm, Assiniboine

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1937
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.063
Description
Colour: greys, green, yellow. The foreground is green ground with a yellow larch at the right side and two dead tree stumps at the left side. The background is grey mountain sides and grey sky.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Approaching Storm, Assiniboine
Date
1937
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.5 x 35 cm
Description
Colour: greys, green, yellow. The foreground is green ground with a yellow larch at the right side and two dead tree stumps at the left side. The background is grey mountain sides and grey sky.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
mountain
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.063
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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