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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: ink; graphite; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.740

Description: Three loose sketches: two are profile drawings of two men from the bust up (both wearing blue coats and hats) in the BRC and centre right, and near the centre of the page there is a profile drawing of a man in a tan coat and hat smoking a cigarette Written in the TRC “H.M.S. Vivid again. I like the…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1929

Medium: ink; graphite; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 15.0 x 10.0 cm

Description: Three loose sketches: two are profile drawings of two men from the bust up (both wearing blue coats and hats) in the BRC and centre right, and near the centre of the page there is a profile drawing of a man in a tan coat and hat smoking a cigarette Written in the TRC “H.M.S. Vivid again. I like their hats,” and in the BLC “United States Immigration office. Windsor Station Montreal”

Subject: navy; men; cigarette; hat; coat; immigration; Windsor station; Montreal

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.740

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1925 – 1966

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.741

Description: Drawn in three quarter view (could be because the Mountie is looking down) from the bust up, it is a detailed image of a Mountie filled in with watercolour. He is wearing his red coat and looking away from the viewer.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1925 – 1966

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 15.0 x 10.0 cm

Description: Drawn in three quarter view (could be because the Mountie is looking down) from the bust up, it is a detailed image of a Mountie filled in with watercolour. He is wearing his red coat and looking away from the viewer.

Subject: red coat; Mountie; man

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.741

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1925 – 1966

Medium: ink; graphite; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.750

Description: On the top half of the page there is a quick sketch in pencil done of a tradesman hammering a piece of wood on what appears to be an anvil. The drawing is then detailed in ink and filled in with watercolour in some places. On the lower half of the page there is practice signatures and practiced way…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1925 – 1966

Medium: ink; graphite; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.2 x 16.2 cm

Description: On the top half of the page there is a quick sketch in pencil done of a tradesman hammering a piece of wood on what appears to be an anvil. The drawing is then detailed in ink and filled in with watercolour in some places. On the lower half of the page there is practice signatures and practiced ways to write “Banff,” “Alberta,” and “Canada.” There is also scribbles of ink around some of the words too.

Subject: Alberta; Canada; Banff; tradesman; working; hammer; anvil; wood

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.750

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1925 – 1966

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.813

Description: In the foreground there is a tree on the right side of the drawing, moving back into space there is a group of people sitting out on the ground observing what appears to be a person on a horse (to the right of the tree in the background). There are two tipis in the mid ground, set up along the down…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1925 – 1966

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 26.6 x 34.0 cm

Description: In the foreground there is a tree on the right side of the drawing, moving back into space there is a group of people sitting out on the ground observing what appears to be a person on a horse (to the right of the tree in the background). There are two tipis in the mid ground, set up along the downward slop of the hill. Behind the event there is just another hill and the sky above it

Subject: tipis; crowd; audience; people; horse; tree; prairie; hills; sky

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.813

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1927

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.905

Description: A man wearing a vest and a tall fez. He has his right leg lifted up onto an elevated step, with his right hand resting under his jaw and his arm resting on top of his leg. He is looking off into the distance with a solemn look.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1927

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Dimensions: 36.2 x 25.5 cm

Description: A man wearing a vest and a tall fez. He has his right leg lifted up onto an elevated step, with his right hand resting under his jaw and his arm resting on top of his leg. He is looking off into the distance with a solemn look.