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Oil Painting

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

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.16

Description: Oil portrait of a man with short, dark hair, painted from the shoulders up in three-quarter view. He is wearing a dark red garment. He has fair skin, brown eyes and rosy cheeks. He is situated in front of a dark brown background.

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

Title: Oil Painting

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 53.0 x 43.0 cm

Description: Oil portrait of a man with short, dark hair, painted from the shoulders up in three-quarter view. He is wearing a dark red garment. He has fair skin, brown eyes and rosy cheeks. He is situated in front of a dark brown background.

Subject: portrait; man

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.16

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Oil Painting

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

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.17

Description: Oil portrait of a women with short, medium brown hair and fair skin in profile. She is wearing a brown garment that blends with the background that she is situated in, which is split vertically off-center to the right; the left side of the background is a deep green colour, while the right side is …

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

Title: Oil Painting

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 53.0 x 43.0 cm

Description: Oil portrait of a women with short, medium brown hair and fair skin in profile. She is wearing a brown garment that blends with the background that she is situated in, which is split vertically off-center to the right; the left side of the background is a deep green colour, while the right side is a light brown. The bottom edge of the painting is unfinished.

Subject: portrait; woman

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.17

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Bow Lake

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

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.004

Description: Meadow scene of orange, blues and green colours in the foreground. Small patches of evergreens are visible. Bow Lake and shore beyond the meadow.

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

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Meadow scene of orange, blues and green colours in the foreground. Small patches of evergreens are visible. Bow Lake and shore beyond the meadow.

Subject: landscape, Canadian Rockies; Bow Lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.004

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Hawaii

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.005

Description: Three trees dot the immediate foreground on the middle to right corner. Behind the trees is the ocean with it's colours of blues and greenish yellow tints of colour. The upper half of the canvas depicts a sky of royal and cobalt bluish tints meeting the horizon line.

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Three trees dot the immediate foreground on the middle to right corner. Behind the trees is the ocean with it's colours of blues and greenish yellow tints of colour. The upper half of the canvas depicts a sky of royal and cobalt bluish tints meeting the horizon line.

Subject: seascape; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.005

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Hillsdale

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

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.008

Description: Yellow trees dot a hill that slopes to the foreground. The dark green mountain side creates a band in the mid ground separating the mountain peaks behind it from the slopes in the foreground.

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

Title: Hillsdale

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Yellow trees dot a hill that slopes to the foreground. The dark green mountain side creates a band in the mid ground separating the mountain peaks behind it from the slopes in the foreground.

Subject: landscape, Canadian Rockies; Hillsdale

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.008

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Hawaii

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.009

Description: A row of houses and barns in the foreground. Green fields sectioned off by dark green boundary in the foreground. Behind the row of houses and palm trees lie green and blue mountains.

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: A row of houses and barns in the foreground. Green fields sectioned off by dark green boundary in the foreground. Behind the row of houses and palm trees lie green and blue mountains.

Subject: landscape, Hawaii; architecture, rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.009

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Peyto Lake

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

Date: 1936 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.010

Description: Peyto Lake. In the mid ground is a row of mountain peaks which meet an overcast sky. T

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

Title: Peyto Lake

Date: 1936 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Peyto Lake. In the mid ground is a row of mountain peaks which meet an overcast sky. T

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Peyto Lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.010

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Mount Biddle and Mount Schaffer

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

Date: 1930 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.012

Description: Two peaked mountain comprises three-quarters of the picture. Loosely sketched dark evergreens wind down one of the mountain sides in diagonal fashion from right to left in the mid ground. A clearing depicted in the foreground.

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

Title: Mount Biddle and Mount Schaffer

Date: 1930 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Two peaked mountain comprises three-quarters of the picture. Loosely sketched dark evergreens wind down one of the mountain sides in diagonal fashion from right to left in the mid ground. A clearing depicted in the foreground.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Mt. Biddle; Mt. Schaffer

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.012

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Ten Peaks from Temple Lodge Area

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

Date: 1938 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.013

Description: The upper portion is predominately comprised of sky. The lower half is made up of a rolling meadows dotted with groupings of evergreens. The mountain range separates the sky from the meadows.

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

Title: Ten Peaks from Temple Lodge Area

Date: 1938 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: The upper portion is predominately comprised of sky. The lower half is made up of a rolling meadows dotted with groupings of evergreens. The mountain range separates the sky from the meadows.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.013

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Icicles (at Assiniboine)

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

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.014

Description: Bluish white icicles hang from the upper part of the picture frame moving downwards toward the bottom of the picture frame.

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

Title: Icicles (at Assiniboine)

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Bluish white icicles hang from the upper part of the picture frame moving downwards toward the bottom of the picture frame.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.014

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Hawaii

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.015

Description: A wave encompasses two thirds of the sketch. The wave crashes onto the impending rocks in the foreground.

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: A wave encompasses two thirds of the sketch. The wave crashes onto the impending rocks in the foreground.

Subject: seascape, Pacific Ocean; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.015

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Hawaii

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.016

Description: The sketch is painted from a high point overlooking fields in front of a Hawaiian bay. There is one ship in the harbour.

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: The sketch is painted from a high point overlooking fields in front of a Hawaiian bay. There is one ship in the harbour.

Subject: seascape, Pacific Ocean; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.016

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Temple Mountain from Above Temple Lodge

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

Date: 1938 – 1946

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.006

Description: Temple Mountain with its various bluish tones in the mid ground appears behind the sparse patches of evergreen slopes in the foregound.

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

Title: Temple Mountain from Above Temple Lodge

Date: 1938 – 1946

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Temple Mountain with its various bluish tones in the mid ground appears behind the sparse patches of evergreen slopes in the foregound.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Mt. Temple

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.006

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Lake McArthur

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

Date: 1930 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.011

Description: Lake McArthur in the immediate foreground.

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

Title: Lake McArthur

Date: 1930 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Lake McArthur in the immediate foreground.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Lake McArthur

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.011

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Hawaii

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.017

Description: Beams of light from clouds shine onto the ground below. A winding stream zigzags it's way from the foreground to the midground where it flows into a lake.

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Beams of light from clouds shine onto the ground below. A winding stream zigzags it's way from the foreground to the midground where it flows into a lake.

Subject: landscape; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.017

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Hawaii

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.018

Description: Water and waves.

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Water and waves.

Subject: seascape, Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.018

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Hawaii

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.019

Description: Trees bordering coast. Blue rock cliffs jut out into the sea in the mid ground. The pale blue sky meets the horizon line in the background.

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Trees bordering coast. Blue rock cliffs jut out into the sea in the mid ground. The pale blue sky meets the horizon line in the background.

Subject: seascape, Pacific; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.019

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Hawaii

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

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.020

Description: A cottage with a shed beside it. A tall tree stands to the left of the house. The house overlooks the sea. A jutting rock in the upper right corner extends into the ocean.

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

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: A cottage with a shed beside it. A tall tree stands to the left of the house. The house overlooks the sea. A jutting rock in the upper right corner extends into the ocean.