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Across the Southern States to the Blue Pacific and Vancouver

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1925 – 1966
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.375
Description
Side 1: Pencil drawing of car driving on a highway to the viewer’s right and into the distance. Other more roughly sketched vehicles are in oncoming lanes. A sign to the right of the road reads: ACROSS THE SOUTHERN STATES/ TO THE PACIFIC AND/ VANCOUVERIn the top left corner, the number 13 is circle…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Across the Southern States to the Blue Pacific and Vancouver
Date
1925 – 1966
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
14.5 x 21.0 cm
Description
Side 1: Pencil drawing of car driving on a highway to the viewer’s right and into the distance. Other more roughly sketched vehicles are in oncoming lanes. A sign to the right of the road reads: ACROSS THE SOUTHERN STATES/ TO THE PACIFIC AND/ VANCOUVERIn the top left corner, the number 13 is circled.Side 2: Pencil drawing of a car driving through a landscape of rolling hills. Mountains are barely visible in the background. This illustration is in a rectangular box. Below this box is a rectangle that is divided into four.
Subject
car
landscape
Peter Whyte
drawing
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.375
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1910 – 1915
Medium
graphite; on paper;
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.965
Description
A graphite pencil drawing of several cars during a race. In the center of the page is a car numbered “20” with two people visible in the open top car that has an exhaust cloud and the words “BANG, BOOM” written beside it. Ranged around this central car are five others on the track. Along the left s…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
An Auto Race
Date
1910 – 1915
Medium
graphite; on paper;
Dimensions
22.8 x 15.1 cm
Description
A graphite pencil drawing of several cars during a race. In the center of the page is a car numbered “20” with two people visible in the open top car that has an exhaust cloud and the words “BANG, BOOM” written beside it. Ranged around this central car are five others on the track. Along the left side is what appears to be an upside-down car in what is possibly the viewer stands.
Subject
drawing
children
cars
car race
Peter Whyte;
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.965
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1910 – 1920
Medium
on paper; card;
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.964
Description
A handmade portfolio with “ART” written in black ink across the cover underneath a rectangular watercolour painting of a sailboat with pink and green rocks on the right-hand edge, black hills in the background, and “Lila” signed in the bottom left corner. The painting is bordered in black ink. The …
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Art
Date
1910 – 1920
Medium
on paper; card;
Dimensions
33.5 x 25.8 cm
Description
A handmade portfolio with “ART” written in black ink across the cover underneath a rectangular watercolour painting of a sailboat with pink and green rocks on the right-hand edge, black hills in the background, and “Lila” signed in the bottom left 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 black 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. There is an additional hole punched in the middle of the open edge.
Subject
art supplies
paintings
drawings
Peter Whyte
Lila White;
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.964
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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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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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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.
Subject
building, house
Peter Whyte
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.148
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
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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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
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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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
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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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
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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The Smith Brothers Limited

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1928
Medium
graphite; ink on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.331
Description
Ink and pencil drawing of a train being investigated by nine men, in various positions, with magnifying glasses. One train car is labeled NYC 10079. A factory building, with a sign that reads CIGARETTES, towers above the train from the background. Peter Whyte’s signature, with “28” is in the botto…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
The Smith Brothers Limited
Date
1928
Medium
graphite; ink on paper
Dimensions
30.3 x 23.5 cm
Description
Ink and pencil drawing of a train being investigated by nine men, in various positions, with magnifying glasses. One train car is labeled NYC 10079. A factory building, with a sign that reads CIGARETTES, towers above the train from the background. Peter Whyte’s signature, with “28” is in the bottom right corner of the drawing. A hand drawn line frames the drawing.Intersecting with the bottom of the hand-drawn frame is the title, hand written in pencil as: THE SMITH BROTHERS LIMITED
Subject
train
industry
investigation
Peter Whyte
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.331
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
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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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
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.
Subject
sketches
figure studies
Mounties
rodeo
Indigenous Peoples
horses
Peter Whyte
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.09.07
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