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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.782

Description: Boxed off there is a quick sketch of a Christmas card that was potentially used during 1962. There is a helicopter lifting a group of animals up on a stretcher and flying them out of a mountain range. verso: Another boxed off sketch of the helicopter flying a group of animals out on a stretcher, wi…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 27.6 x 21.3 cm

Description: Boxed off there is a quick sketch of a Christmas card that was potentially used during 1962. There is a helicopter lifting a group of animals up on a stretcher and flying them out of a mountain range. verso: Another boxed off sketch of the helicopter flying a group of animals out on a stretcher, with a mountain range below them. Written by the bottom edge of the paper “Howard O’Hagan. Parks Need Protection - Nove 11 Colonist read Wild America Page 57”

Subject: helicopter; rescue; flying; rope; moose; mountains; mountain range; stretcher

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.782

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Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.938

Description: A Christmas card design of a group of vehicles in a convoy travelling down a road to the mountains. The last car is filled with a group of animals, and beside this vehicle there is a post with a bunch of signs pointing to directions to different cities. These signs say “HOMER, FAIRBANKS, EDMONTON, …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter

Date: 1956

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 18.2 x 28.6 cm

Description: A Christmas card design of a group of vehicles in a convoy travelling down a road to the mountains. The last car is filled with a group of animals, and beside this vehicle there is a post with a bunch of signs pointing to directions to different cities. These signs say “HOMER, FAIRBANKS, EDMONTON, DAWSON CITY, BANFF, ANCHORAGE, VALDEZ, WHITEHORSE, FORT ST. JOHN, AND SEWARD”. The licence plate on the last vehicle says “B.N.P. 1956 CANADA”. While below the drawing it says “SEASONS GREETINGS CATHARINE AND PETER”. Around the edges of the drawing it says “6 inches” and “3 3/4”

Subject: travel; driving; vehicle; car; Christmas card; sign; mountain; Rocky Mountain; animal; moose; bird; bear; deer; wolf; rabbit

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.938

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Season’s Greetings Catharine and Peter

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1955

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.936

Description: The 1955 Christmas card design. Peter is standing beside Catharine who is sitting on a tree stump. They are watching a group of animals paint the mountain scene in the background. Below the drawing it says “SEASON’S GREETINGS 1955 CATHARINE AND PETER”verso: ink marks along the left edge

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Season’s Greetings Catharine and Peter

Date: 1955

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 18.4 x 28.8 cm

Description: The 1955 Christmas card design. Peter is standing beside Catharine who is sitting on a tree stump. They are watching a group of animals paint the mountain scene in the background. Below the drawing it says “SEASON’S GREETINGS 1955 CATHARINE AND PETER”verso: ink marks along the left edge

Subject: Christmas card; people; man; woman; animal; moose; deer; bear; squirrel; bird; rabbit; wolf; landscape; mountain; Rocky Mountains; painting; canvas; brush; paint

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.936

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Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1954

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.424

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake

Date: 1954

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.1 x 30.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.424

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Season’s Greetings Peter and Catharine

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1954

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.937

Description: The 1954 Christmas card. Peter and Catharine sit on stools at their easels painting the mountain landscape in front of them. There is a group of animals standing around watching them. Written below the drawing it says “SEASON’S GREETINGS 1954 PETER AND CATHARINE”.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Season’s Greetings Peter and Catharine

Date: 1954

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 19.8 x 30.3 cm

Description: The 1954 Christmas card. Peter and Catharine sit on stools at their easels painting the mountain landscape in front of them. There is a group of animals standing around watching them. Written below the drawing it says “SEASON’S GREETINGS 1954 PETER AND CATHARINE”.

Subject: people; man; woman; animal; moose; rabbit; wolf; squirrel; bird; bear; deer; mountain; Rocky Mountains; painting; pain; furniture; stool; paint; canvas; easel; Christmas card

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.937

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1954

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.952 p

Description: Left: blue ink map drawing “300 yds” Right: in pencil person sitting on stool wearing hate holding paintbrush facing away from viewer.Verso: drawings of person holding paintbrush facing away from viewer. Math equations. Type written: “Banff Alberta. Sunday Sept. 19, 1954 Dear Dorothy, How awfully”

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1954

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 16.5 x 25.0 cm

Description: Left: blue ink map drawing “300 yds” Right: in pencil person sitting on stool wearing hate holding paintbrush facing away from viewer.Verso: drawings of person holding paintbrush facing away from viewer. Math equations. Type written: “Banff Alberta. Sunday Sept. 19, 1954 Dear Dorothy, How awfully”

Subject: painting; math; map

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.952 p

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Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1951

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.713

Description: Detailed sketch for final version of the 1951 Christmas card. Several animals can be seen surrounding Catharine and Peter’s vehicle, there is a tree in the foreground, and two mountains in the background. “SEASONS GREETINS CATHARINE AND PETER” are written on the TL and BL hand side of the drawing, …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter

Date: 1951

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 18.0 x 27.7 cm

Description: Detailed sketch for final version of the 1951 Christmas card. Several animals can be seen surrounding Catharine and Peter’s vehicle, there is a tree in the foreground, and two mountains in the background. “SEASONS GREETINS CATHARINE AND PETER” are written on the TL and BL hand side of the drawing, with Peter’s signature and date in the BRC of the drawing. Some coloured pencil markings in the BRC starting 4.5cm to the left with a circled no. 3 written in pen and 8cm up more coloured pencil. verso: written in coloured pencil “not over 4”x6””, “3 colors Cragg & Canyon Banff”, and “mountain”

Subject: Christmas card; mountains; tree; moose; wolf; bear; elk; squirrel; bird; cooking; reading

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.713

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Hawaiian Islands

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.768

Description: Drawing of two palm trees bearing coconuts on a beach close to the ocean’s edge. No sky is drawn in, the horizon line is the stop point. In the TRC is says “Best Wishes In the New year,” BLC “HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.”verso: “Honolulu T.H. December 20th Dear Mother + Father - Just a note to wish you all a …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Hawaiian Islands

Date: 1950

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 15.0 x 10.0 cm

Description: Drawing of two palm trees bearing coconuts on a beach close to the ocean’s edge. No sky is drawn in, the horizon line is the stop point. In the TRC is says “Best Wishes In the New year,” BLC “HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.”verso: “Honolulu T.H. December 20th Dear Mother + Father - Just a note to wish you all a very Happy New Year and to let you know that I haven’t forgotten. Will be writing you a regular letter soon and I hope to hear from you when you have time. My very best wishes again. Always, Peter”

Subject: palm tree; coconuts; ocean; sand; beach; Hawaiian Islands; Christmas Card

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.768

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1949

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.237

Description: Sketch and well-rendered versions of a Peter and Catharine Christmas card. The left is a rough colour sketch of a woman skiing down a hill meeting a man at the bottom with a camera. Hill is scattered with skiers that have fallen. A house or cabin peeks over the hill to the right in the background…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1949

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 23.5 x 30.5 cm

Description: Sketch and well-rendered versions of a Peter and Catharine Christmas card. The left is a rough colour sketch of a woman skiing down a hill meeting a man at the bottom with a camera. Hill is scattered with skiers that have fallen. A house or cabin peeks over the hill to the right in the background. The woman leaves a curving line in the snow down the hill. The right side is a more final version in ink with more details. “Greetings 1949” printed in BRC.

Subject: Christmas Card; Peter; Catharine; skiing; snow; ski hill

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.237

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Seasons Greetings

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1948 – 1948

Medium: graphite; ink on pen; watercolour

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.259

Description: Postcard size image of Peter and Catharine’s 1948 Christmas card. To the right, a man and a woman are in a green jeep full of baggage. A large moose stands in front of them on the left facing the jeep. Mountains and water are in the background and the sky is blue.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Seasons Greetings

Date: 1948 – 1948

Medium: graphite; ink on pen; watercolour

Dimensions: 10.5 x 16.0 cm

Description: Postcard size image of Peter and Catharine’s 1948 Christmas card. To the right, a man and a woman are in a green jeep full of baggage. A large moose stands in front of them on the left facing the jeep. Mountains and water are in the background and the sky is blue.