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Mount Rundle

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

Date: ca. 1930 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.260

Description: Looking east towards Rundle Mountain. In the right background is Mount Rundle with the sun illuminating it from the right. Shadowed areas are done in medium blue. The upper slopes are light grey (with touches of brick-red and ochre), while the lower slopes are green with an underpainting of blue. A…

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

Title: Mount Rundle

Date: ca. 1930 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.2 cm

Description: Looking east towards Rundle Mountain. In the right background is Mount Rundle with the sun illuminating it from the right. Shadowed areas are done in medium blue. The upper slopes are light grey (with touches of brick-red and ochre), while the lower slopes are green with an underpainting of blue. A patch of blue water can be seen in the lower right, behind the foreground trees. Some of the foreground trees have yellow foliage and others are pine trees. A large pine tree rises on the left side to cut off the bottom of Rundle's left slope. The sky is blue except for two white and grey clouds above the mountain.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.260

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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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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.