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- Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian) 354
- Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British) 221
- Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian) 65
- John Hartman (1950 – , Canadian) 30
- Adeline Baxter (1881 – 1959) 1
- Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian) 1
- Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian) 1
- George Bertrand Mitchell (1872 – 1966, American) 1
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874 – 1927, American) 1
- Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian) 1
- Takao Tanabe (1926 – , Canadian) 1
- Artist
- Adeline Baxter (1881 – 1959)
- Date
- c. 1917
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BxA.05.01
- Description
- Colour: green, blue. A green valley with a peak at the left and a ridge at the right. Two peaks in the distance at center meet blue sky with two clouds.
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- Artist
- Adeline Baxter (1881 – 1959)
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- c. 1917
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.0 x 24.0 cm
- Description
- Colour: green, blue. A green valley with a peak at the left and a ridge at the right. Two peaks in the distance at center meet blue sky with two clouds.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Canmore area
- Credit
- Gift of T. (Mrs.) B. Williams, Victoria, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- BxA.05.01
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- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper board
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.029
- Description
- Appears to be a coastal scene with cliffs in the forground looking out over the water, there is a few small tree here. - out on the water is a upcropping of lone rock.“A coast scene sketched from a bluff, this is in an earlier coarser style of Collings.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalo…
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- Title
- Berry Head
- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper board
- Dimensions
- 19 x 25.5 cm
- Description
- Appears to be a coastal scene with cliffs in the forground looking out over the water, there is a few small tree here. - out on the water is a upcropping of lone rock.“A coast scene sketched from a bluff, this is in an earlier coarser style of Collings.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.029
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Houses with Twin Trees
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- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.030
- Description
- Scene of a house with two trees in the immediate forground to the right and left of center. - further behind is a house which fills the space between the two trees and as far as the right edge. - two windows and a door on the immediate front, and a window and door on the side.
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- Title
- Houses with Twin Trees
- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 19 x 25 cm
- Description
- Scene of a house with two trees in the immediate forground to the right and left of center. - further behind is a house which fills the space between the two trees and as far as the right edge. - two windows and a door on the immediate front, and a window and door on the side.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.030
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Pond and Farmhouse
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- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.539
- Description
- Landscape scene with a marshy area in the forground, with grass-like reed shapes growing out of it. - the is a building in the background with two chimneys and another building further to the right.
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- Title
- Pond and Farmhouse
- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20 x 24.5 cm
- Description
- Landscape scene with a marshy area in the forground, with grass-like reed shapes growing out of it. - the is a building in the background with two chimneys and another building further to the right.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.539
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Bennalt Portage
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- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.031
- Description
- Scene with mountains in the background and a bridge leading across a river below this to the below right of center there is a building at the right end of the bridge just behind.
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- Title
- Bennalt Portage
- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.5 x 26 cm
- Description
- Scene with mountains in the background and a bridge leading across a river below this to the below right of center there is a building at the right end of the bridge just behind.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.031
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- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.032
- Description
- Mountain scene with surrounding mountains and a valley lake. - appears to be something man-made stretching across the lake from forground to the background.
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- Title
- At Glacier
- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20 x 26 cm
- Description
- Mountain scene with surrounding mountains and a valley lake. - appears to be something man-made stretching across the lake from forground to the background.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.032
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Steep Valley, Glacier
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- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.033
- Description
- Mountain scene with three mountains one in the middle distance, the second closest to the right, and the third to the left. - there is lake or stream in the middle forground of the mountains with trees surrounding it.
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- Title
- Steep Valley, Glacier
- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20 x 26 cm
- Description
- Mountain scene with three mountains one in the middle distance, the second closest to the right, and the third to the left. - there is lake or stream in the middle forground of the mountains with trees surrounding it.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.033
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Garden Homes of B.C.
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- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on cardboard package
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.034
- Description
- Scene of a pathway or road with tail slim trees on either side reaching up to the top edge where they disappear. - darkly shaded grey areas on the trees. - a blue spot of pigment 15.5cm from the br. along that edge.
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- Title
- Garden Homes of B.C.
- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on cardboard package
- Dimensions
- 26 x 20.5 cm
- Description
- Scene of a pathway or road with tail slim trees on either side reaching up to the top edge where they disappear. - darkly shaded grey areas on the trees. - a blue spot of pigment 15.5cm from the br. along that edge.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.034
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Tree by Castle
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- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.037
- Description
- Landscape scene with a spindly tree dominating the forground, with brush and shrubs leading into the background, and a square shaped building in the far right background.
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- Title
- Tree by Castle
- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 19 x 23.5 cm
- Description
- Landscape scene with a spindly tree dominating the forground, with brush and shrubs leading into the background, and a square shaped building in the far right background.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.037
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Wrecks of Klondike Times
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- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.038
- Description
- A cabin in the forground center/right, one door in the center framed wall. - a stream runs along the cabin begining in the distance. - mountains in the distance.
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- Title
- Wrecks of Klondike Times
- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.5 x 26 cm
- Description
- A cabin in the forground center/right, one door in the center framed wall. - a stream runs along the cabin begining in the distance. - mountains in the distance.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.038
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- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.039
- Description
- Scene of a castle-like shape in the upper half of the frame. - a tree stands to the left edge of this, and a column type shape in the forground.
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- Title
- City Square
- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 26 x 21 cm
- Description
- Scene of a castle-like shape in the upper half of the frame. - a tree stands to the left edge of this, and a column type shape in the forground.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.039
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- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.040
- Description
- Scene with figures busying about under and around makeshift shelters. - one figure has a hat on that has been coloured blue with a blue ink. - there is a pail in the forground right.
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- Title
- On the Hunt
- Date
- prior to 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 18.5 x 25 cm
- Description
- Scene with figures busying about under and around makeshift shelters. - one figure has a hat on that has been coloured blue with a blue ink. - there is a pail in the forground right.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.040
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Rest Time for Pack Train
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- Date
- c. 1922
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.094
- Description
- Scene of some pack horses outside the front part of a house, two trees behind and mountains in the distance.“Collings visited Australia. Perhaps, true to form, he explored the ‘outback’ as the two buildings in this sketch are characteristic of that region.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” …
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- Title
- Rest Time for Pack Train
- Date
- c. 1922
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 8 x 10 cm
- Description
- Scene of some pack horses outside the front part of a house, two trees behind and mountains in the distance.“Collings visited Australia. Perhaps, true to form, he explored the ‘outback’ as the two buildings in this sketch are characteristic of that region.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.094
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Cabin in Old Burn at Seymour Arm
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- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.157
- Description
- Landscape containing a central house, flaged by trees, four tree stumps fill right side, suggestions of four or more trees to the left of the house, hills in the distance make up the horizon line, references to colour fill the sky.
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- Title
- Cabin in Old Burn at Seymour Arm
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 18.5 x 25 cm
- Description
- Landscape containing a central house, flaged by trees, four tree stumps fill right side, suggestions of four or more trees to the left of the house, hills in the distance make up the horizon line, references to colour fill the sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.157
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Mt. Resplendent
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- Date
- 1914
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- JaA.03.15
- Description
- A stylistically loose drawing of a mountain scene. The view is looking in between two mountains who are cropped at either side of the page. In between them is one mountain who's peak is in the left third of the page. Trees are scattered across the mountains in the foreground.
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- Title
- Mt. Resplendent
- Date
- 1914
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.0 x 25.3 cm
- Description
- A stylistically loose drawing of a mountain scene. The view is looking in between two mountains who are cropped at either side of the page. In between them is one mountain who's peak is in the left third of the page. Trees are scattered across the mountains in the foreground.
- Credit
- Gift of Donald Grace, Saanichton, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- JaA.03.15
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.965
- Description
- A graphite pencil drawing of several cars during a race. In the center of the page is a car numbered “20” with two people visible in the open top car that has an exhaust cloud and the words “BANG, BOOM” written beside it. Ranged around this central car are five others on the track. Along the left s…
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- Title
- An Auto Race
- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 15.1 cm
- Description
- A graphite pencil drawing of several cars during a race. In the center of the page is a car numbered “20” with two people visible in the open top car that has an exhaust cloud and the words “BANG, BOOM” written beside it. Ranged around this central car are five others on the track. Along the left side is what appears to be an upside-down car in what is possibly the viewer stands.
- Subject
- drawing
- children
- cars
- car race
- Peter Whyte;
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.965
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- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.966
- Description
- A graphite pencil drawing of a man riding a motorcycle in profile. The figure is set back almost directly over the real wheel and is wearing tall boots, pale pants, a long-sleeve jacket, gloves, a kind of mask with an eye hole cut out, and a backwards cap. Light is indicated as coming out of a head…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Medium
- graphite; on paper;
- Dimensions
- 15.1 x 22.8 cm
- Description
- A graphite pencil drawing of a man riding a motorcycle in profile. The figure is set back almost directly over the real wheel and is wearing tall boots, pale pants, a long-sleeve jacket, gloves, a kind of mask with an eye hole cut out, and a backwards cap. Light is indicated as coming out of a headlight and speed/dust clouds are coming out from under the rear wheel.
- Subject
- drawing
- children
- motorcycle
- Peter Whyte;
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.966
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Mill by Quarry
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- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.218
- Description
- Sweeping curve in foreground takes you into the centre of the drawing where there is a building on the left, partially hidden by a hill, ontop of the hill is the lighthouse-type structure, on right side there are more houses, hill in the distance is broken by a single standing tree.“Collings is kno…
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- Title
- Mill by Quarry
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.7 x 25.7 cm
- Description
- Sweeping curve in foreground takes you into the centre of the drawing where there is a building on the left, partially hidden by a hill, ontop of the hill is the lighthouse-type structure, on right side there are more houses, hill in the distance is broken by a single standing tree.“Collings is known to have traveled on Vancouver Island. This may have been sketched in Nanaimo.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- quarry
- lighthouse
- Nanaimo
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.218
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Lower Valleys Glacier Bed, Lake Louise
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- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.233
- Description
- Valley area centre with mountains on either side, rocks in foreground right, four trees on mountain side right, one large tree on same plane as other trees left, mountains from a V in distance, valley continues at the base of the V.“Sketching Lake Louise was de rigour for artists in Canada in the f…
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- Title
- Lower Valleys Glacier Bed, Lake Louise
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.8 x 25.7 cm
- Description
- Valley area centre with mountains on either side, rocks in foreground right, four trees on mountain side right, one large tree on same plane as other trees left, mountains from a V in distance, valley continues at the base of the V.“Sketching Lake Louise was de rigour for artists in Canada in the first decades of the twentieth century. Collings chose an unusual view looking down towards the lake through a narrow, sinuous valley. The resulting “starburst” composition is contained by uncompromisingly vertical trees on either side.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- Lake Louise
- trees
- valley
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.233
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Old Road and Tree
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- Date
- 1910 – 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper board
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.001
- Description
- Landscape, tree at left from top to bottom road crossing diagonally from left to right and disappearing. Rock-like shape at top right quarter. Writing on back.
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- Title
- Old Road and Tree
- Date
- 1910 – 1931
- Medium
- graphite on paper board
- Dimensions
- 19.5 x 24 cm
- Description
- Landscape, tree at left from top to bottom road crossing diagonally from left to right and disappearing. Rock-like shape at top right quarter. Writing on back.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.001
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