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Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmij.05.06
- Date
- 1964
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.05.06
- Description
- The general colours are green, blue, grey, brown, mauve, purple and white. The painting is divided in half for dominance. The bottom-half is the icy blue/green and white of the frozen lake; on the viewer’s far right there are two small evergreens in the snow. The top-half comprises the mountains an…
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- Title
- Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier
- Date
- 1964
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 37.2 x 56.0 cm
- Description
- The general colours are green, blue, grey, brown, mauve, purple and white. The painting is divided in half for dominance. The bottom-half is the icy blue/green and white of the frozen lake; on the viewer’s far right there are two small evergreens in the snow. The top-half comprises the mountains and glacier; viewer’s right the scree slope and upward sweep of a mountain, moving to the left is the next mountain with its white and blue glacier top and blue sweep down the middle of the mountain. Lower mid-centre is the glacier snow field and to the left is a brown and white mountain. The gloomy sky is grey and white swirling clouds with hints of yellow through the grey and blue sky beyond.
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.05.06
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Letters to Mother [September - December 1942]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7460
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to th…
- Date Range
- 1942
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 114
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Postcard
- Private record
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs
- Sous-Fonds
- M36
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 114
- Date Range
- 1942
- Physical Description
- 1.2 cm of textual records (56 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to the war, matters pertaining to the store and apartments on Banff Ave, radio programs [including operas, news, and sports], visits from friends, updates on war-time rations [mostly on food items and gasoline/coal], day trips around Banff National Park to sketch/paint [mostly to Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, and Lake Minnewanka], going to the movies, wildlife, books Catharine and Edith are reading, events and people in Concord [including Russel's activities and promotions in the US Army], various holidays [both Canadian and American], making frames, Catharine's involvement with the Red Cross [including first aid training], Pete being hired by Sir Norman Watson to create letterhead and a Christmas card for Mount Temple Chalet, skiing, slide making and presentations, errand trips to Calgary [mostly to see the dentist], and Christmas activites/parties. Also includes postcards.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoplesand Japanese people used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- Robb, Edith Morse
- Moore, Pearl
- Moore, Edmee
- Moore, Phil
- Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
- Simpson, Billie
- Simpson, Jimmy, Jr.
- White, Annie
- White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.)
- White, Bubby
- Whyte, Dorothy
- Stockand, Cameron
- Stockand, Lila (White)
- Ward, Sam
- Ward, Louise (Cis)
- Brewster, Fern
- Brewster, Jack Walker
- Link, George K. K. (Tommy)
- Link, Adeline
- Campbell, Gray
- Campbell, Eleanor
- Watson, Sir Norman
- Rummel, Elizabeth
- Rummel, Lizzie
- Rungius, Carl
- Noble, George
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Art
- Artists
- Banff
- Birds
- Bird watching
- Birthday
- Books
- Bow Lake
- Businesses
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Children
- Christmas
- Columbia Icefield
- Columbia Icefield Chalet
- Community events
- Community life
- Correspondence
- Family
- Family and personal life
- Films and film making
- First Nations
- Home
- Hospital
- Indigenous Peoples
- Leisure
- Literature
- Mountain
- Mount Royal Hotel
- Mount Temple Chalet
- Norquay Ski Hill
- Num-Ti-Jah Lodge
- Painting
- Personal and Family Life
- Photography
- Post Office
- Red Cross
- Royal Canadian Airforce
- RCAF
- Scenery
- Skiing
- Ski areas
- Trains
- Transportation
- Travel
- War
- Weather
- Wildlife
- Winter
- Winter sports
- World War II
- WWII
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Bow Lake
- Icefield Parkway
- Banff National Park
- Calgary
- Alberta
- Concord
- Massachusetts
- Canada
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmij.04.02
- Date
- prior to 1977
- Medium
- serigraph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.04.02
- Description
- The lake covers the foreground, 2 evergreen trees in br. The glacier is centre top with mountains both sides
- Title
- Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier
- Date
- prior to 1977
- Medium
- serigraph on paper
- Dimensions
- 13.9 x 29.1 cm
- Description
- The lake covers the foreground, 2 evergreen trees in br. The glacier is centre top with mountains both sides
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.04.02
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Bow Lake Crowfoot Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmij.04.35
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.04.35
- Description
- A silkscreened folded card with a view of Bow Lake, mostly obscured by the vegetation in front of the lake, and the Crowfoot Glacier behind. The general colours are blue, grey, green, rust/orange and white. The image is dominated by the rust and green-coloured vegetation in front of the lake and th…
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- Title
- Bow Lake Crowfoot Glacier
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 11.1 x 14.1 cm
- Description
- A silkscreened folded card with a view of Bow Lake, mostly obscured by the vegetation in front of the lake, and the Crowfoot Glacier behind. The general colours are blue, grey, green, rust/orange and white. The image is dominated by the rust and green-coloured vegetation in front of the lake and the mountains and glacier behind. Beyond the vegetation is the blue/green and grey lake. The top two-thirds comprises the mountains and glacier; viewer’s right the green/grey scree slope and upward sweep of a mountain, moving to the left is the next mountain with its white and blue/grey glacier top and its grey/blue shadowed side on the left. Lower mid-centre is the glacier snow field and to the left is a grey/blue hill. The sky above is flat and grey.
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.04.35
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