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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.103

Description: Colour: blue greys. The central image is a mass of blue grey ice which takes up the middle two quarters. The upper and lower quarters being white patches of snow on a brown grey ground.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: blue greys. The central image is a mass of blue grey ice which takes up the middle two quarters. The upper and lower quarters being white patches of snow on a brown grey ground.

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

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.103

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St. Nicholas Peak from Corral at Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.105

Description: Colour: brown, blue, green. A broken tree with branches hanging down on both sides and one jutting out up left reaching to the upper center, stands on the right side in reen grass. Beyond is a green lake. Two tress at he left side. The brown mountain rises out of the lake - snowy peak at upper cent…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: St. Nicholas Peak from Corral at Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: brown, blue, green. A broken tree with branches hanging down on both sides and one jutting out up left reaching to the upper center, stands on the right side in reen grass. Beyond is a green lake. Two tress at he left side. The brown mountain rises out of the lake - snowy peak at upper centre. Clouds fill the sky.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.105

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Peyto Lake and Mistaya River Valley

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.106

Description: Colour: blue, green. On each side of a brown foreground stand evergreens which recede into the distance towards the lower center. Beyond them is a turquoise blue river which recedes into the distant valley towards the right side. Mountains swoop up on both sides becoming purple in the distance. A g…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Peyto Lake and Mistaya River Valley

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.5 x 30.5 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green. On each side of a brown foreground stand evergreens which recede into the distance towards the lower center. Beyond them is a turquoise blue river which recedes into the distant valley towards the right side. Mountains swoop up on both sides becoming purple in the distance. A grey sky is at the center upper edge.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.106

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Scree Slope, Bow Lake [Mount Thompson]

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.107

Description: Colour: green, brown grey. At the left side of th green foreground is a clump of trees at the right, a single tree. Beyond is a green lake the upper two thirds is mountan side. Two fans of scree come down to the lake from the upper right side.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Scree Slope, Bow Lake [Mount Thompson]

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: green, brown grey. At the left side of th green foreground is a clump of trees at the right, a single tree. Beyond is a green lake the upper two thirds is mountan side. Two fans of scree come down to the lake from the upper right side.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.107

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Scree Slope, Bow Lake [Mount Thompson]

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.108

Description: Colour: brown grey, green, rust. The lower half is evergreens and rust orange shrubs with a green lake beyond. The upper half is a fan of scree coming into the lake from a mountain side.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Scree Slope, Bow Lake [Mount Thompson]

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: brown grey, green, rust. The lower half is evergreens and rust orange shrubs with a green lake beyond. The upper half is a fan of scree coming into the lake from a mountain side.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.108

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Moraine Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.113

Description: Colour: blue, grey, green, turquoise. A tree grows on he left side in the foreground. On the right side is a large boulder. Behind the tree is the turquoise lake. A point of land with five trees on it comes out at the left side. The upper half is mountain side going from green to brown to blue.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Moraine Lake

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: blue, grey, green, turquoise. A tree grows on he left side in the foreground. On the right side is a large boulder. Behind the tree is the turquoise lake. A point of land with five trees on it comes out at the left side. The upper half is mountain side going from green to brown to blue.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.113

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Lake Louise

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.117

Description: Colour: Warm blues, black, grey. A lake crosses the lower edge. Two black strips of trees go up each side from the center at the bottom of the glacier. Behind the glacier is a rock fall leading to a snow ridge and to the left a rock peak. The sky is the same colour as the snow-grey.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake Louise

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: Warm blues, black, grey. A lake crosses the lower edge. Two black strips of trees go up each side from the center at the bottom of the glacier. Behind the glacier is a rock fall leading to a snow ridge and to the left a rock peak. The sky is the same colour as the snow-grey.

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

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.117

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

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.089

Description: Colour: blue, green. Central image is a fan shaped glacier emptying into a pool of warm blue water surrounded by green grass along the bottom and a third the way up. Beyond the glacier to the left is rock mountain side which goes off the left side. In the upper right corner is sky which meets dista…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green. Central image is a fan shaped glacier emptying into a pool of warm blue water surrounded by green grass along the bottom and a third the way up. Beyond the glacier to the left is rock mountain side which goes off the left side. In the upper right corner is sky which meets distant slopes.

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

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.089

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Simpson's Corral

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.088

Description: Colour: green, blue grey. The foreground is green grass with a road or trail going from lower right of center to the right and then back to right of center to a gate on a fence which goes across the picture a third the way up. Behind the fence at the left side are two buildings. Trees grow behind t…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Simpson's Corral

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: green, blue grey. The foreground is green grass with a road or trail going from lower right of center to the right and then back to right of center to a gate on a fence which goes across the picture a third the way up. Behind the fence at the left side are two buildings. Trees grow behind them at the center and to the right. Beyond are mountains and sky. A patch of lake can be seen right of the cabins and left of the gate.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; architecture; rural

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.088

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

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Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.087

Description: Colour: green grey, blue grey. The lower third is a lake with green grass and two trees in the right corner. The far shore is dark trees becoming brown and grey mountains. There is a glacier at the center between the two ridges. Grey clouded sky fills the upper third.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: green grey, blue grey. The lower third is a lake with green grass and two trees in the right corner. The far shore is dark trees becoming brown and grey mountains. There is a glacier at the center between the two ridges. Grey clouded sky fills the upper third.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.087

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Mount Hector and Bow Peak

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.086

Description: Colour: green, brown. The lower half is green ground with a tree at the left side and two smaller trees at the right half way up. A narrow expanse of lake meets the far shore of trees which become two brown and white mountains left and right of center in the upper area. The sky is grey blue.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mount Hector and Bow Peak

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: green, brown. The lower half is green ground with a tree at the left side and two smaller trees at the right half way up. A narrow expanse of lake meets the far shore of trees which become two brown and white mountains left and right of center in the upper area. The sky is grey blue.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.086

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Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.085

Description: Colour: green, purple. The foreground is green ground with small trees to the right and three larger trees and one smaller to the left. The large trees grow from half way up. The lake is a narrow green band across the middle. Purple mountains rise up from the lake becoming grey and white near the t…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: green, purple. The foreground is green ground with small trees to the right and three larger trees and one smaller to the left. The large trees grow from half way up. The lake is a narrow green band across the middle. Purple mountains rise up from the lake becoming grey and white near the top. The sky is green grey.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.085

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Bow Glacier Falls

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.084

Description: Colour: grey, green, blue. Five dead tree stumps and some green foliage fill the lower left half of the picture. At the right is a bare tree trunk which runs from top to bottom. Across the bottom in the distance are trees. The river in the lower right area is fed by a waterfall which pours over the…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Glacier Falls

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: grey, green, blue. Five dead tree stumps and some green foliage fill the lower left half of the picture. At the right is a bare tree trunk which runs from top to bottom. Across the bottom in the distance are trees. The river in the lower right area is fed by a waterfall which pours over the rock in steps in the upper half. Along the upper edge is sky and the melting glacier with some of the mountain in the upper left corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.084

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Num Ti Jah Lodge, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.083

Description: Colour: green. In the foreground are large boulders which fill the lower edge. In the center is a pool of water surrounded on the far side by trees which are reflected in it. A larger tree stands at the left side. Beyond is more water and in the upper quarter is the far shore of the lake which beco…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Num Ti Jah Lodge, Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: green. In the foreground are large boulders which fill the lower edge. In the center is a pool of water surrounded on the far side by trees which are reflected in it. A larger tree stands at the left side. Beyond is more water and in the upper quarter is the far shore of the lake which becomes mountans. A single peak is visible in the distance left of center at the top. A bit of blue sky beyond.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.083

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Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Summit

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.082

Description: Colour: green, purple. A little brook runs between rocks and grass in the lower center. Halfway up grow trees on either side. Meadows beyond reach a lake right of center where a forest goes up either side. In the background are three purple mountains with grey and blue sky beyond.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Summit

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: green, purple. A little brook runs between rocks and grass in the lower center. Halfway up grow trees on either side. Meadows beyond reach a lake right of center where a forest goes up either side. In the background are three purple mountains with grey and blue sky beyond.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.082

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

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Scree Slopes, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.081

Description: Colour: green, brown, blue grey. The lower third is a calm green lake with a dead tree at the left side. A brown mountain rises up from the lake to the right side filling the upper right two thirds. The upper left two thirds is purple mountains in the distance with a green shore and grey and blue s…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Scree Slopes, Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: green, brown, blue grey. The lower third is a calm green lake with a dead tree at the left side. A brown mountain rises up from the lake to the right side filling the upper right two thirds. The upper left two thirds is purple mountains in the distance with a green shore and grey and blue sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.081

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Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.015

Description: Colour: green, grey, purple. Lower half is meadow with a stream from the center to lower left corner. Trees dot the middleground. In the upper half is a lake at center and mountains beyond. Grey sky fills the upper left corner and across the top.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 63.5 x 76.5 cm

Description: Colour: green, grey, purple. Lower half is meadow with a stream from the center to lower left corner. Trees dot the middleground. In the upper half is a lake at center and mountains beyond. Grey sky fills the upper left corner and across the top.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.015

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

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Corral at Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.003

Description: Colour: green, grey, blue. In the foreground there are a few trees and grass which meet a fence one third up. At the gate on the right side stands a figure. Behind the fence is a cabin left and trees left and right allowing the turquoise lake in the distance to appear left of center. The mountain p…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Corral at Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 51 x 40.5 cm

Description: Colour: green, grey, blue. In the foreground there are a few trees and grass which meet a fence one third up. At the gate on the right side stands a figure. Behind the fence is a cabin left and trees left and right allowing the turquoise lake in the distance to appear left of center. The mountain peak beyond has snow on it and meets sky left of center in the upper area. Sky is clouded.