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Storm Clouds Above Victoria Glacier, Pipestone River

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.133

Description: Colour: green, yellow, grey. In the foreground are bright purple and pink shrubs in the green grass. Three yellow larches stand left of center. A sliver of blue water can be seen across the picture and the far shore starts an inch up from the bottom. Trees and green hills fill the rest of the lower…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Storm Clouds Above Victoria Glacier, Pipestone River

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 11 x 9 cm

Description: Colour: green, yellow, grey. In the foreground are bright purple and pink shrubs in the green grass. Three yellow larches stand left of center. A sliver of blue water can be seen across the picture and the far shore starts an inch up from the bottom. Trees and green hills fill the rest of the lower half. Grey sky with hints of purple mountains fill the top.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; glacier; Victoria Glacier; river; Pipestone River

Credit: Gift of Margaret White, Kamloops, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.133

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Columbia Icefield

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.277

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Columbia Icefield

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 13.7 x 15.0 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.277

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1923

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.743

Description: A rough sketch outlines a jeep driving up a mountain hill carrying luggage. In the background there is a mountain range and clouds in the sky. In the middle of the page near the bottom edge is says “SEE AMERICA FIRST” and above it you can see Peter’s signature. inside the fold along the length: qui…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1923

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 14.0 x 21.5 cm

Description: A rough sketch outlines a jeep driving up a mountain hill carrying luggage. In the background there is a mountain range and clouds in the sky. In the middle of the page near the bottom edge is says “SEE AMERICA FIRST” and above it you can see Peter’s signature. inside the fold along the length: quick sketches - very cartoonish - throughout the page. There are five drawings of men and one of woman, two that appear to be of wolves, one duck, a plane and a rough landscape. verso: printed advertisement for Glacier National Park, with a cartoon drawing of a man to the right of the printed image. In the BLC “magnificent” is crossed out, and near the fold in the middle of the page it says “for mudit”