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- Date
- 1921
- Medium
- on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.356 a,b
- Description
- Handmade greetings card with envelope addressed to Catharine Robb in Concord Massachusetts. Paper card has rough edges. Card is one-sided with a hand-coloured graphite drawing of a beachside landscape. The drawing contains a yellow hut surrounded by green palm trees and lavender mountains in the ba…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1921
- Medium
- on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.3 x 10.0 cm
- Description
- Handmade greetings card with envelope addressed to Catharine Robb in Concord Massachusetts. Paper card has rough edges. Card is one-sided with a hand-coloured graphite drawing of a beachside landscape. The drawing contains a yellow hut surrounded by green palm trees and lavender mountains in the background.On the top of the card, a handwritten inscription reads:Happy New Year, CatharineAt the bottom left of the card, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS is writtenSigned at the bottom right:: Peter DECEMBER 21 (below the name)Envelope addressed to:Miss Catharine RobbConcordMassachusetts M.S.A.
- Subject
- landscape
- beach
- hut
- trees, palm
- Peter Whyte
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.356 a,b
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- 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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.598
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.765
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- 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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.841
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Jim White's House at Nash's Creek
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.148
- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.148
- Description
- Colour: green, blue. Central image is a building with an addition on the back and two chimneys. There is grass in front. Trees behind to the left and one to the right in the distance. Pale blue sky is above.
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- Title
- Jim White's House at Nash's Creek
- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27 x 21.9 cm
- Description
- Colour: green, blue. Central image is a building with an addition on the back and two chimneys. There is grass in front. Trees behind to the left and one to the right in the distance. Pale blue sky is above.
- Subject
- building, house
- Peter Whyte
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.148
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SKETCHES BANFF 1928
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.09.06
- Date
- 1928 – 1928
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.06
- Description
- A sketchbook with a black spine and pressed paper cover in black and white. There is a white rectangle label with “SKETCHES BANFF 1928” written in black ink. It contains several colour sketches that have been cut out of a different sketchbook and pasted in to this one. The last two sketches have no…
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- Title
- SKETCHES BANFF 1928
- Date
- 1928 – 1928
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.8 x 20.2 cm
- Description
- A sketchbook with a black spine and pressed paper cover in black and white. There is a white rectangle label with “SKETCHES BANFF 1928” written in black ink. It contains several colour sketches that have been cut out of a different sketchbook and pasted in to this one. The last two sketches have not been attached. Subjects are figure studies of Mounties, cowboys, climbers, Indigenous Peoples, soldiers, Asian people, and skiers.
- Subject
- sketching
- drawing
- figure studies
- Peter Whyte
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.06
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- Date
- 1928 – 1928
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.07
- Description
- A sketchbook with possible pressed paper cover wrapped in green fabric. Has “Sketches” printed in dark red cursive on the front cover and a 5 cm long fabric loop attached to the bottom edge of the back cover, most likely to hold a pencil. It contains several black and white ink sketches of Mounties…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1928 – 1928
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 23.6 x 28.5 cm
- Description
- A sketchbook with possible pressed paper cover wrapped in green fabric. Has “Sketches” printed in dark red cursive on the front cover and a 5 cm long fabric loop attached to the bottom edge of the back cover, most likely to hold a pencil. It contains several black and white ink sketches of Mounties and rodeo cowboys mostly on horseback, as well as one bull rider, Indigenous Peoples, and rough sketches done in graphite.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.07
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- Date
- 1928 – 1928
- Medium
- graphite; ink; on paper;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.15
- Description
- Sketchbook wrapped in brown paper secured to the inside of the covers [most likely done by Peter as the original cover can be seen through tears in the paper] with “SKETCHES, Peter Whyte, BANFF ALBERTA CANADA” written in black ink on the front cover. Contents include sketches mostly of people [incl…
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- Title
- Sketches
- Date
- 1928 – 1928
- Medium
- graphite; ink; on paper;
- Dimensions
- 26.1 x 20.1 cm
- Description
- Sketchbook wrapped in brown paper secured to the inside of the covers [most likely done by Peter as the original cover can be seen through tears in the paper] with “SKETCHES, Peter Whyte, BANFF ALBERTA CANADA” written in black ink on the front cover. Contents include sketches mostly of people [including children, Mounties, women, golfers, climbers, cowboys, and Indigenous People], caricatures, horses, and portraits.
- Subject
- drawing
- sketching
- portrait
- caricature
- horses
- women
- children
- automobiles
- Indigenous Peoples
- Peter Whyte
- Catharine Robb Whyte;
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.15
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- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- conté on brown paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.016
- Description
- A well rendered drawing of a standing male life model with hands behind head. His bent arm and elbow conceals his face, his back is to the viewer and he is lunging forward but away from the viewer with his left foot. He has a flexed right leg. He is turned 3/4 away from viewer.There are various …
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- conté on brown paper
- Dimensions
- 65.5 x 49.5 cm
- Description
- A well rendered drawing of a standing male life model with hands behind head. His bent arm and elbow conceals his face, his back is to the viewer and he is lunging forward but away from the viewer with his left foot. He has a flexed right leg. He is turned 3/4 away from viewer.There are various scribble and doodles around edges.
- Subject
- figure
- male
- Peter Whyte
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.016
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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