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The Backyard Rink
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactevl.04.02
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- EvL.04.02
- Description
- It is dusk and winter in the mountains. In the foreground is a fence with a willow tree to the right. There is a cat perched on the fence watching the children in the background playing hockey. There is a house with a lighted window to the left. A string of lights from the house across the yard …
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- Title
- The Backyard Rink
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 42.0 x 58.0 cm
- Description
- It is dusk and winter in the mountains. In the foreground is a fence with a willow tree to the right. There is a cat perched on the fence watching the children in the background playing hockey. There is a house with a lighted window to the left. A string of lights from the house across the yard illuminates the ice rink which dominates the middle right. Three boys are playing hockey and a girl in a yellow snowsuit is sitting on the ice. Trees and mountains are in the background.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- tree
- winter ice rink
- children
- activity, ice hockey
- animal, cat
- architecture
- Credit
- Gift of Linda Evans, Canmore, 1993
- Catalogue Number
- EvL.04.02
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Bow River Boat House 1952
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacthac.03.01
- Date
- 1952
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HaC.03.01
- Description
- General colour: brown on white. Three buildings - lake in front - trees behind - a flag pole with flag rises behind the house at the right. The house at the left has a chimney and is long and narrow.
- Title
- Bow River Boat House 1952
- Date
- 1952
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.1 x 21.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: brown on white. Three buildings - lake in front - trees behind - a flag pole with flag rises behind the house at the right. The house at the left has a chimney and is long and narrow.
- Subject
- landscape
- lake
- architecture, rural
- Credit
- Gift of Cyril Paris, Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- HaC.03.01
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Cave and Basin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlot.02.02
- Date
- c. 1955
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- LoT.02.02
- Description
- Tom Lonsdale was the United Church Minister, for many years, in Banff; he took painting lessons from Pete Whyte circa 1950; Catharine purchased LoT.02.02 through LoT.02.04 at a United Church rummage sale, for $3.00 each, in 1975. Tom Lonsdale spent some years in a Calgary rest home and died 1975.
- Title
- Cave and Basin
- Date
- c. 1955
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 35.4 cm
- Description
- Tom Lonsdale was the United Church Minister, for many years, in Banff; he took painting lessons from Pete Whyte circa 1950; Catharine purchased LoT.02.02 through LoT.02.04 at a United Church rummage sale, for $3.00 each, in 1975. Tom Lonsdale spent some years in a Calgary rest home and died 1975.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountains
- architecture
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- LoT.02.02
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Cree Cabin, Mameo
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwbg.04.029
- Date
- 1950
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WbG.04.029
- Description
- Four people on step of cabin at centre of image. Tent to right of cabin, trees behind.
- Title
- Cree Cabin, Mameo
- Date
- 1950
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 35.1 cm
- Description
- Four people on step of cabin at centre of image. Tent to right of cabin, trees behind.
- Credit
- Gift of Donna Tingley, Edmonton, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- WbG.04.029
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Heather Lodge, Mt. Revelstoke, B.C.
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwbg.04.080
- Date
- 1957
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WbG.04.080
- Description
- Heather Lodge at centre of image. Water in foreground.
- Title
- Heather Lodge, Mt. Revelstoke, B.C.
- Date
- 1957
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 40.0 cm
- Description
- Heather Lodge at centre of image. Water in foreground.
- Credit
- Gift of Donna Tingley, Edmonton, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- WbG.04.080
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- Date
- 1955
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- PeW.12.01
- Description
- The land in this painting is rolling hills of green and brown yellow colours. The horizon line is about two thirds of the way up the painting from the bottom. In the folds of rolling hills are trees of dark and medium colour green. In the center of the painting are two buildings. One may be a house…
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- Title
- River Bank
- Date
- 1955
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 57.0 x 66.0 cm
- Description
- The land in this painting is rolling hills of green and brown yellow colours. The horizon line is about two thirds of the way up the painting from the bottom. In the folds of rolling hills are trees of dark and medium colour green. In the center of the painting are two buildings. One may be a house and the other a small barn. On the left side there is another building that looks like barn. The sky is a blue/grey colour.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian
- architecture
- house
- barns
- Credit
- Gift of William (Bill) Perehudoff, Saskatoon, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- PeW.12.01
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Rural Scene, Eastern Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.374
- Date
- 1958
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.374
- Description
- The bottom half of the painting is a pond with lots of weeds . The area behind the water is farm land. Sitting at the top of the hill is a yellow house and a grey barn with a light brown road coming from between the buildings.
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- Title
- Rural Scene, Eastern Canada
- Date
- 1958
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 30.2 cm
- Description
- The bottom half of the painting is a pond with lots of weeds . The area behind the water is farm land. Sitting at the top of the hill is a yellow house and a grey barn with a light brown road coming from between the buildings.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- architecture
- barn
- house
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.374
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- Date
- prior to 1977
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.065
- Description
- Two parallel rows of small buildings. Hills and trees behind.
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- Title
- Switzerland
- Date
- prior to 1977
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- Two parallel rows of small buildings. Hills and trees behind.
- Subject
- landscape
- architecture
- rural
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.065
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Tack Shed at Num-Ti-Jah
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.283
- Date
- 1950 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.283
- Description
- View of a cabin with tall mountains in the distance. In the centre of the background is found a distinctive triangular peak covered in snow. The peak's exposed rock is coloured brown-grey. Two mountains, partially obscured by trees, are located on either side of the centre peak-on the left, a blue-…
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- Title
- Tack Shed at Num-Ti-Jah
- Date
- 1950 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas on masonite
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- View of a cabin with tall mountains in the distance. In the centre of the background is found a distinctive triangular peak covered in snow. The peak's exposed rock is coloured brown-grey. Two mountains, partially obscured by trees, are located on either side of the centre peak-on the left, a blue-grey mountainside slopes downwards and on the right is a rounded summit with a line white snow dividing the crown from the lower slopes. In the right foreground, a brown cabin (with a red-brown roof and an open front door) sits in a meadow surrounded by tall evergreens. To the left of the front of the cabin, a brown horse is tied to a wooden railing.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.283
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West to Kananaskis Country
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactevl.04.01
- Date
- 1988
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- EvL.04.01
- Description
- Dark cityscape of Calgary in the foreground, time of day appears to be dusk. The highway snakes through the centre leading to Canmore on the far upper right. Buildings of Bragg Creek Shopping Centre, Nakiska, the ski hill, and the Kananaskis Inn to the left, farmhouses on either side of the road a…
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- Title
- West to Kananaskis Country
- Date
- 1988
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 39.0 x 66.5 cm
- Description
- Dark cityscape of Calgary in the foreground, time of day appears to be dusk. The highway snakes through the centre leading to Canmore on the far upper right. Buildings of Bragg Creek Shopping Centre, Nakiska, the ski hill, and the Kananaskis Inn to the left, farmhouses on either side of the road and Nakoda Lodge to the right. It is snowing.
- Credit
- Gift of Linda Evans, Canmore, 1993
- Catalogue Number
- EvL.04.01
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