name:"Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)" found 514 records - Research Collections

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1921

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.598

Description: An ink portrait of a woman from her shoulders - up. She has short curly hair and a small crown or tiara. Her collar is trimmed with fur and she wears a necklace. Linework is used for shading on her face.Signed in brc PETE WHYTE 21.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1921

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 29.5 x 19.0 cm

Description: An ink portrait of a woman from her shoulders - up. She has short curly hair and a small crown or tiara. Her collar is trimmed with fur and she wears a necklace. Linework is used for shading on her face.Signed in brc PETE WHYTE 21.

Subject: royalty; portrait; Queen; monarchy; woman

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.598

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1923

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.743

Description: A rough sketch outlines a jeep driving up a mountain hill carrying luggage. In the background there is a mountain range and clouds in the sky. In the middle of the page near the bottom edge is says “SEE AMERICA FIRST” and above it you can see Peter’s signature. inside the fold along the length: qui…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1923

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 14.0 x 21.5 cm

Description: A rough sketch outlines a jeep driving up a mountain hill carrying luggage. In the background there is a mountain range and clouds in the sky. In the middle of the page near the bottom edge is says “SEE AMERICA FIRST” and above it you can see Peter’s signature. inside the fold along the length: quick sketches - very cartoonish - throughout the page. There are five drawings of men and one of woman, two that appear to be of wolves, one duck, a plane and a rough landscape. verso: printed advertisement for Glacier National Park, with a cartoon drawing of a man to the right of the printed image. In the BLC “magnificent” is crossed out, and near the fold in the middle of the page it says “for mudit”

Subject: jeep; mountain; travel; cloud; hill; America; luggage; duck; man; woman; wolf; plane; cigarette; Glacier National Park; advertisement

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.743

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Goat Mountain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1927

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.128

Description: Colour: green, blue. The lower area is two green slopes coming down from either side. The left crosses in front of right at center. Behind is two mountains with lower blue slopes and snow on top. Blue sky fills both upper corners and top edge.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Goat Mountain

Date: 1927

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 14.5 x 19.8 cm

Description: Colour: green, blue. The lower area is two green slopes coming down from either side. The left crosses in front of right at center. Behind is two mountains with lower blue slopes and snow on top. Blue sky fills both upper corners and top edge.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Goat Mountain

Credit: Gift of Dorothy V. Whyte, West Vancouver, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.128

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Old Woman

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1927

Medium: graphite; coloured graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.765

Description: A fast figure drawing initially done in pencil is filled with coloured pencil to add depth and dimension to the figure. The woman is shoeless, resting on a cane in her right hand, and is wearing a colourful wrap on her head. Behind her there is some sort of structure that is three-tiered.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Old Woman

Date: 1927

Medium: graphite; coloured graphite on paper

Dimensions: 35.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: A fast figure drawing initially done in pencil is filled with coloured pencil to add depth and dimension to the figure. The woman is shoeless, resting on a cane in her right hand, and is wearing a colourful wrap on her head. Behind her there is some sort of structure that is three-tiered.

Subject: head wrap; cane; dress; woman; bare feet; tiered structure

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.765

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.841

Description: A woman standing barefoot, wearing a head wrap and a dress. She is looking out to the right and her left hand is on her hip, while the right is gesturing to objects behind her.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 21.2 cm

Description: A woman standing barefoot, wearing a head wrap and a dress. She is looking out to the right and her left hand is on her hip, while the right is gesturing to objects behind her.

Subject: person; woman; dress; head wrap

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.841

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Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.144

Description: Colour: green, purple, grey brown. There is a green-blue lake at the bottom. Trees on the far shore become grey-brown mountains and in the upper centre area is a glacier on a purple mountain. Blue sky fills the top right edge.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake O'Hara

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.5 x 27.5 cm

Description: Colour: green, purple, grey brown. There is a green-blue lake at the bottom. Trees on the far shore become grey-brown mountains and in the upper centre area is a glacier on a purple mountain. Blue sky fills the top right edge.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.144

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

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Mount Lefroy

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.070

Description: The mountain dominates left and centre, colours blues and white, another snow covered mountain is behind and to the right of Mount Lefroy. Patches of cloud in a blue sky at very top of picture. Right foreground is a flat topped rock. Treed mountain slope angles to top left from rock. Immediat…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Mount Lefroy

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.7 x 28.0 cm

Description: The mountain dominates left and centre, colours blues and white, another snow covered mountain is behind and to the right of Mount Lefroy. Patches of cloud in a blue sky at very top of picture. Right foreground is a flat topped rock. Treed mountain slope angles to top left from rock. Immediate foreground is a patch of water with tall grasses on edge.