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Christmas Cards

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: ink; coloured inks; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.04.01 a-i

Description: Nine Christmas cards. (a) A convoy of vehicles, last car is a convertible filled with various Rocky Mountain animals, a signpost to left (b) various Rocky Mountain animals sit on snowmobiles racing across the horizon (c) various Rocky Mountain animals on skis, a red-sweatered rabbit on snowshoes, …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Christmas Cards

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: ink; coloured inks; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 11.0 x 16.2 cm

Description: Nine Christmas cards. (a) A convoy of vehicles, last car is a convertible filled with various Rocky Mountain animals, a signpost to left (b) various Rocky Mountain animals sit on snowmobiles racing across the horizon (c) various Rocky Mountain animals on skis, a red-sweatered rabbit on snowshoes, appears to be teaching them (d) various Rocky Mountain animals in a long canoe, the moose at the back is rowing (e) various Rocky Mountain animals working at easels with a man and woman on the left watching (f) various Rocky Mountain animals sit on a bench looking at a piece of abstract art on the wall (g) various Rocky Mountain animals on a sling being lifted by a yellow helicopter (h) various Rocky Mountain animals look at a sign Do not feed tourists danger big fine (i) various Rocky Mountain animals at easels painting, the backs of the easels are seen

Subject: card; Christmas; animals; Peter Whyte

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1991

Catalogue Number: WyP.04.01 a-i

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Cliff and Me in our Hup

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1917 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.523

Description: A pencil drawing of the front of a car with two masked figures seated inside. They drive towards the viewer. Verso: Pencil drawing of a car’s profile, facing left. There is one figure inside

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cliff and Me in our Hup

Date: 1917 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 22.5 x 15.1 cm

Description: A pencil drawing of the front of a car with two masked figures seated inside. They drive towards the viewer. Verso: Pencil drawing of a car’s profile, facing left. There is one figure inside

Subject: Cliff Whyte; Peter Whyte; car; road trip; Hup; Hupmobile

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.523

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Commonwealth Air Training Field

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1944

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.271

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Commonwealth Air Training Field

Date: 1944

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.3 x 35.2 cm

Subject: transportation, airplane; military; landscape; mountain; building, military; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.271

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Corporal Windsor 1941

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1962 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.354

Description: Pencil drawing on paper of a soldier’s head. One is more complete, with pillbox hat, decorative collar, and the beginnings of facial features. The other is more lightly drawn and detached from the collar. Underneath these drawings are the words: Corporal Windsor 1941.all of this appears in the uppe…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Corporal Windsor 1941

Date: 1962 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 21.4 x 27.5 cm

Description: Pencil drawing on paper of a soldier’s head. One is more complete, with pillbox hat, decorative collar, and the beginnings of facial features. The other is more lightly drawn and detached from the collar. Underneath these drawings are the words: Corporal Windsor 1941.all of this appears in the upper left corner. The paper is embossed with the words HOWARD SMITH VICTORY WAR BONDS CANADA.

Subject: Blind Date; soldier; John Windsor; Peter Whyte;

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.354

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Drawings

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1910 – 1920

Medium: on paper; card;

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.963

Description: A handmade portfolio with “DRAWINGS” written in black ink across the cover underneath a rectangular watercolour painting of a small building on a lake shore with trees and hills in the background, signed “P.W.” in bottom right corner. The painting is bordered in black ink. The pieces of the portfol…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Drawings

Date: 1910 – 1920

Medium: on paper; card;

Dimensions: 33.5 x 25.8 cm

Description: A handmade portfolio with “DRAWINGS” written in black ink across the cover underneath a rectangular watercolour painting of a small building on a lake shore with trees and hills in the background, signed “P.W.” in bottom right corner. The painting is bordered in black ink. The pieces of the portfolio are made of green-grey paper wrapped around a piece of cardstock, sealed on the inside with a decorative page consisting of hand-drawn green and yellow hexagons with simple floral designs inside them. The covers are held together with a length of red cord wound through three holes punched along one edge.

Subject: art supplies; paintings; drawings; Peter Whyte;

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.963

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Filling in the Bathtubs

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.029

Description: Colour: orange, green and blue on yellow and blue. Yellow slope covered with figures all carrying shovels. There are two paths coming down from the upper ridge at left. Both skiers at the end of the path are buried in snow. Two figures at the lower end of the right path are measuring the width of t…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Filling in the Bathtubs

Date: 1937 – 1940

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 100.1 x 74.6 cm

Description: Colour: orange, green and blue on yellow and blue. Yellow slope covered with figures all carrying shovels. There are two paths coming down from the upper ridge at left. Both skiers at the end of the path are buried in snow. Two figures at the lower end of the right path are measuring the width of the path. The sky is clear blue above where seven skiers stand waiting their turn.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; figure; group; activity; skiing; Peter Whyte

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.029

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Gelandesprung

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Catalogue Number: WyP.06.04

Description: A realistic rendering of a man doing a jump turn, skis pointed off to the right, arms at sides with poles back into snow, snow trails from skis onto base which a is a wedge-shaped form, inscribed at front of base: “Peter Whyte '38”. Modelled by Peter Whyte and cast by Charlie Beil.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Gelandesprung

Date: 1938

Dimensions: 48.0 x 37.0 x 40.0 cm

Description: A realistic rendering of a man doing a jump turn, skis pointed off to the right, arms at sides with poles back into snow, snow trails from skis onto base which a is a wedge-shaped form, inscribed at front of base: “Peter Whyte '38”. Modelled by Peter Whyte and cast by Charlie Beil.

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971

Catalogue Number: WyP.06.04

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Jim White's House at Nash's Creek

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

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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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

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.