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Mount Rundle

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.04

Description: Dominant colours are purple, green, blue, brown, grey, yellow, and white. The painting is dominated by Mount Rundle and a cloud-filled blue sky. The foreground is grey rocks, a dead tree with the brown tree trunk and branches reaching right, above that coniferous trees viewer’s right; the middle fo…

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Mount Rundle

Date: 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 50.5 x 70.5 cm

Description: Dominant colours are purple, green, blue, brown, grey, yellow, and white. The painting is dominated by Mount Rundle and a cloud-filled blue sky. The foreground is grey rocks, a dead tree with the brown tree trunk and branches reaching right, above that coniferous trees viewer’s right; the middle foreground is made up of grey pebbles and small rocks with coniferous trees behind, the sun is shining on the mid- foreground and the viewer’s right highlighting the ground and trees. To the viewer’s right there is a pile of grey, brown, and beige rocks with two coniferous trees above and some yellow and brown bushes to the right of that; to the very far right the Bow River is visible and also above the bushes it is snaking its way through the valley toward Canmore. A purple-hued with some blue Tunnel (Buffalo) Mountain is in front of Mount Rundle. Mount Rundle is purple, grey, blue, pink and white with green patches to the right. The ranges on the viewer’s left are purple, grey and white and to the right of Mount Rundle they are blue, grey and white. The sky above which comprises one-third of the painting has more clouds than blue sky. The clouds are white, grey, brown growing into purple, grey and yellowish hues to the viewer’s right.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Rundle Mountain; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.04

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Mount Weed, Bow Summit

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.242

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Mount Weed, Bow Summit

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.3 x 30.1 cm

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.242

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Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1977

Medium: serigraph on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.02

Description: The lake covers the foreground, 2 evergreen trees in br. The glacier is centre top with mountains both sides

Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

Date: prior to 1977

Medium: serigraph on paper

Dimensions: 13.9 x 29.1 cm

Description: The lake covers the foreground, 2 evergreen trees in br. The glacier is centre top with mountains both sides

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Bow Lake; Crowfoot Glacier

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

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.02

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Rural Scene, Eastern Canada

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1958

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.374

Description: The bottom half of the painting is a pond with lots of weeds . The area behind the water is farm land. Sitting at the top of the hill is a yellow house and a grey barn with a light brown road coming from between the buildings.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Rural Scene, Eastern Canada

Date: 1958

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.0 x 30.2 cm

Description: The bottom half of the painting is a pond with lots of weeds . The area behind the water is farm land. Sitting at the top of the hill is a yellow house and a grey barn with a light brown road coming from between the buildings.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; architecture; barn; house

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.374

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Barrier Lake

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1952

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.375

Description: The blue lake in the center of this image is surrounded by green trees. Behind the lake the mountains are partically covered with trees and some are light brown in color with no trees. The sky above the lake and mountains is pale blue with some white clouds. The foreground area has a road that begi…

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Barrier Lake

Date: 1952

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.3 cm

Description: The blue lake in the center of this image is surrounded by green trees. Behind the lake the mountains are partically covered with trees and some are light brown in color with no trees. The sky above the lake and mountains is pale blue with some white clouds. The foreground area has a road that begins on the left and follows threw to the right, with a dip down in the bottom center area.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; Barrier Lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.375

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Boat

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1958

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.377

Description: Sitting in the bottom left corner is a fishing boat on an angle with a blue shadow behind it reaching over to the right side.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Boat

Date: 1958

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.3 x 30.3 cm

Description: Sitting in the bottom left corner is a fishing boat on an angle with a blue shadow behind it reaching over to the right side.

Subject: transportation; boat

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.377

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Kananaskis Lakes

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.404

Description: A blue lake is centre foreground surrounded by mountains. Evergreen trees in both right and left foreground. Cloudy sky.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Kananaskis Lakes

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.7 cm

Description: A blue lake is centre foreground surrounded by mountains. Evergreen trees in both right and left foreground. Cloudy sky.

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.404

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Untitled

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: waterc olour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.01

Description: Located in the top right corner of the paper there is a pink flower. This flower has been painted using different shades of pink for highlights and darker shades in the shadow areas. Some violet has been used at the base of the flower. In the lower left corner are two more flowers with heavy outli…

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: waterc olour on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 21.5 cm

Description: Located in the top right corner of the paper there is a pink flower. This flower has been painted using different shades of pink for highlights and darker shades in the shadow areas. Some violet has been used at the base of the flower. In the lower left corner are two more flowers with heavy outlines made from a graphite pencil. These flowers are also pink. They have green and yellow stems and centers. The remainder of the paper is blank.

Subject: botanical; flowers

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.02

Description: Along the top edge of the paper is a green leaf with three stems that have purple and pink flowers at the ends. The flowers are hanging down toward the bottom of the paper. Located in the tlc is a pink and yellow flower facing the left edge of the paper. In the middle and positioned a bit to the ri…

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 27.6 cm

Description: Along the top edge of the paper is a green leaf with three stems that have purple and pink flowers at the ends. The flowers are hanging down toward the bottom of the paper. Located in the tlc is a pink and yellow flower facing the left edge of the paper. In the middle and positioned a bit to the right there is another flower light green/brown, pink and yellow in colour with a medium to dark blue center. A small square shape has been drawn with graphite at the center left of the paper. The remainder of the paper is blank.

Subject: botanical; flowers

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.02

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Switzerland

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1977

Medium: oil on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.065

Description: Two parallel rows of small buildings. Hills and trees behind.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Switzerland

Date: prior to 1977

Medium: oil on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 30.3 cm

Description: Two parallel rows of small buildings. Hills and trees behind.

Subject: landscape; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.065

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Kitwanga

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1973

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.081

Description: Three totem poles, mountains behind.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Kitwanga

Date: prior to 1973

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: Three totem poles, mountains behind.

Subject: religious; totem pole; landscape; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.081

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From the Little Beehive

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1953 – 1958

Medium: oil on canvas on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.112

Description: Mt. Victoria and Mt. Lefroy seen from the Little Beehive.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: From the Little Beehive

Date: 1953 – 1958

Medium: oil on canvas on masonite

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: Mt. Victoria and Mt. Lefroy seen from the Little Beehive.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Little Beehive; Mt. Victoria, Mt. Lefroy

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.112

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Mount Lefroy from the Big Beehive

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.167

Description: Mount Lefroy from Big Beehive.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Mount Lefroy from the Big Beehive

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Mount Lefroy from Big Beehive.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Mt. Lefroy; Big Beehive

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.167

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.241

Description: The light and dark turquoise of Bow Lake is placed in the middleground. At the base of the picture, the lake is described by a horizontal stroke of light grey and by a number of vertical brushstrokes of turquoise. The vegetation in front of the lake, in the lower left and right corners, contains th…

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: The light and dark turquoise of Bow Lake is placed in the middleground. At the base of the picture, the lake is described by a horizontal stroke of light grey and by a number of vertical brushstrokes of turquoise. The vegetation in front of the lake, in the lower left and right corners, contains the same dark green, and light violet-grey found in the background. The violet-grey is used to indicate: the snow covering the dark violet-grey mountain on the right; the rock forming the more distant peak on the left; and a lighter tint of this colour forms the clouds in the upper left corner. A separate area of blue-grey clouds occupies the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.241

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Tack Shed at Num-Ti-Jah

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.283

Description: View of a cabin with tall mountains in the distance. In the centre of the background is found a distinctive triangular peak covered in snow. The peak's exposed rock is coloured brown-grey. Two mountains, partially obscured by trees, are located on either side of the centre peak-on the left, a blue-…

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Tack Shed at Num-Ti-Jah

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas on masonite

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: View of a cabin with tall mountains in the distance. In the centre of the background is found a distinctive triangular peak covered in snow. The peak's exposed rock is coloured brown-grey. Two mountains, partially obscured by trees, are located on either side of the centre peak-on the left, a blue-grey mountainside slopes downwards and on the right is a rounded summit with a line white snow dividing the crown from the lower slopes. In the right foreground, a brown cabin (with a red-brown roof and an open front door) sits in a meadow surrounded by tall evergreens. To the left of the front of the cabin, a brown horse is tied to a wooden railing.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; animal, horse; architecture, rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.283

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Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1970

Medium: serigraph on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.01

Description: General colour: blues, greens, purple. The lower half is a white and turquoise green, winter lake with two trees in the lower right corner. The upper half is mountains, three peaks, and a pass. The sky is grey green.

Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

Date: prior to 1970

Medium: serigraph on paper

Dimensions: 13.9 x 29.1 cm

Description: General colour: blues, greens, purple. The lower half is a white and turquoise green, winter lake with two trees in the lower right corner. The upper half is mountains, three peaks, and a pass. The sky is grey green.