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- Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian) 11
- Robin Sturdy (1946 – 1998, Canadian) 10
- Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian) 2
- Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British) 1
- Clarence Ingwall Tillenius (1913 – 2012, Canadian) 1
- Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian) 1
- Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American) 1
- Linda Evans (1949 – , Canadian) 1
- Wadym Dobrolige (1913 – 1973) 1
- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.11.01
- Description
- General colour: green, blue. Mountain face rises up behind a speeding train - the engine of which fills the cover two thirds of the picture. In the lower right corner a few trees and the other track can be seen. At the lower left side stands one telegraph pole.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 58.5 x 73.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: green, blue. Mountain face rises up behind a speeding train - the engine of which fills the cover two thirds of the picture. In the lower right corner a few trees and the other track can be seen. At the lower left side stands one telegraph pole.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- train
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.11.01
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River at Cahair - Limerick - Tipperery Road S. Ireland
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlac.05.30
- Date
- 1953
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.30
- Description
- A stone bridge runs across a river. The river runs from the centre of the painting on the left and extends into the distance. It curves to the left around the river bank. A train crosses the bridge. Smoke is being expelled from the train. On the right of the painting are four or five leafless …
- Title
- River at Cahair - Limerick - Tipperery Road S. Ireland
- Date
- 1953
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Description
- A stone bridge runs across a river. The river runs from the centre of the painting on the left and extends into the distance. It curves to the left around the river bank. A train crosses the bridge. Smoke is being expelled from the train. On the right of the painting are four or five leafless trees. Along the close side of the river bank is a walkway with moorings or black pylons. Hazy trees are visible in the upper portion of the painting.
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.30
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Winter Tunnel near Sicamous
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.05.63
- Date
- 1927 – 1927
- Medium
- watercolour on board
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.63
- Description
- Winter scene with a train tunnel in foreground. Snow and icicles are hanging over the entrance. On back of paper of picture frame were 4 different labels.First is at top left and is light brown in colour: “6. Collins [sic], Charles - ‘Winter; Tunnel on C.P.R. Track’. Lent by Mrs. Jonathan Rogers,…
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- Title
- Winter Tunnel near Sicamous
- Date
- 1927 – 1927
- Medium
- watercolour on board
- Dimensions
- 38 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- Winter scene with a train tunnel in foreground. Snow and icicles are hanging over the entrance. On back of paper of picture frame were 4 different labels.First is at top left and is light brown in colour: “6. Collins [sic], Charles - ‘Winter; Tunnel on C.P.R. Track’. Lent by Mrs. Jonathan Rogers, Vancouver. 1920-30Second is top right and is green: “Vancouver Art Gallery - Name of Artist or Owner: Mrs. Jonathan Rogers - Address: 2050 Nelson St - Phone No.: [Indecipherable] - Title of Work: ‘Winter, Tunnel on C.P.R. Track between Sycamous & Winnipeg” - Price or insurable value (if not for sale): $350 - To be pasted on bottom right-hand corner of back of picture.”Third is white with red border: “Mrs. Jonathan Rogers, 2050 Nelson St. Vancouver. No 6, Do not remove wire”.Fourth label is white and from the Alex Fraser Galleries in Vancouver (5669 Granville Street Vancouver 13, B.C. - AM 6-6010, Alex Fraser Formerly of Bond Street, London, England) and is located at bottom: “ ’Winter Tunnel on C.P.R. Track’, Original Water Colour, by Charles John Collings.”
- Credit
- Gift of Mark Rivette, Vernon, 2015
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.63
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- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.21
- Description
- A man in cowboy clothing stands on a rocky surface with a black horse directly behind him. Behind the horse is a pack train of ~10 horses, all loaded down with cloth-covered packs. The pack train winds it’s way across a rocky slope. Mountains in background.
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- Title
- Mountain Man
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73.6 x 58.4 cm
- Description
- A man in cowboy clothing stands on a rocky surface with a black horse directly behind him. Behind the horse is a pack train of ~10 horses, all loaded down with cloth-covered packs. The pack train winds it’s way across a rocky slope. Mountains in background.
- Subject
- horses
- pack train
- mountain
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.21
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Trestles at the Loop
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbes.05.04
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.04
- Description
- Kicking Horse Pass. Train trestle bridges wind around bases of mountains in valley.Ross Peak in background.
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- Title
- Trestles at the Loop
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.0 x 47.7 cm
- Description
- Kicking Horse Pass. Train trestle bridges wind around bases of mountains in valley.Ross Peak in background.
- Credit
- Purchased from Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.04
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Vintage Steam Engine below Cascade Mountain 1889
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacthah.02.02
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- HaH.02.02
- Description
- General colours: blue, white. A huge mountain fills the major part of the canvas. The lower sides are treed snowy slopes. At the center near the bottom, the black engine of an old style train is steaming towards the viewer. The track and telephone poles veer to the left.
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- Title
- Vintage Steam Engine below Cascade Mountain 1889
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 75.4 x 100.6 cm
- Description
- General colours: blue, white. A huge mountain fills the major part of the canvas. The lower sides are treed snowy slopes. At the center near the bottom, the black engine of an old style train is steaming towards the viewer. The track and telephone poles veer to the left.
- Subject
- landscape, mountain
- winter
- train
- Credit
- Gift of Herbert C. Hahn, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- HaH.02.02
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- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- EvL.04.05
- Description
- The Banff train station is in the foreground with a Mountie directing a tourist. In the backgound is the Brewster bus station and to the right is a moose and beaver dam in Vermilion Lake. The many buildings from the town of Banff are in the background along with people engaged in various activities…
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- Title
- Banff, Canada
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 61.0 x 45.0 cm
- Description
- The Banff train station is in the foreground with a Mountie directing a tourist. In the backgound is the Brewster bus station and to the right is a moose and beaver dam in Vermilion Lake. The many buildings from the town of Banff are in the background along with people engaged in various activities such as fishing and boating on the Bow River, bicycling etc.. The upper half is Rundle Mountain and the Banff Springs Hotel and the Sulphur Mountain Gondola Lift.
- Subject
- landscape
- town
- Banff
- road
- mountains
- buildings
- transportation
- train
- bus
- automobile
- carriage
- animal
- horse
- people
- tourist
- Mountie
- Credit
- Gift of Linda Evans, Canmore, 1993
- Catalogue Number
- EvL.04.05
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Sketch for Going to the Sundance
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.563
- Date
- 1953 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.563
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- Title
- Sketch for Going to the Sundance
- Date
- 1953 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 61.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.563
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The Smith Brothers Limited
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.331
- 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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- 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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- Date
- 1921 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.344
- Description
- On the first side, there are two mostly complete drawings of horses in dynamic poses. There are two partial drawings of horse heads, as well as a doodle that is difficult to discern. The drawing on the other side appears to be oriented the other way. It is a pencil drawing of a train cars.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1921 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 21.1 cm
- Description
- On the first side, there are two mostly complete drawings of horses in dynamic poses. There are two partial drawings of horse heads, as well as a doodle that is difficult to discern. The drawing on the other side appears to be oriented the other way. It is a pencil drawing of a train cars.
- Subject
- horses
- train
- Peter Whyte;
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.344
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