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Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactjkr.02.03
- Date
- c. 1928
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- JkR.02.03
- Description
- A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of …
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- Title
- Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928
- Date
- c. 1928
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 75.5 x 60.3 cm
- Description
- A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of an open space where the men in kilts are standing. Mount Rundle rises up behind the Hotel. A flagpole, trees and coloured tents are dispersed through the crowd in the middle of the painting.
- Credit
- Gift of Joan Fitt, Calgary, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- JkR.02.03
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Breaking Camp on Mount Logan, Yukon
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactrat.02.01
- Artist
- Ted Raftery
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- RaT.02.01
- Description
- Foreground from near top left to near bottom right is a snow covered mountain slope, 3 climbers with rope are on the slope, background is snow covered mountains protruding through cloud cover, top quarter is clear blue sky
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- Artist
- Ted Raftery
- Title
- Breaking Camp on Mount Logan, Yukon
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 50.7 cm
- Description
- Foreground from near top left to near bottom right is a snow covered mountain slope, 3 climbers with rope are on the slope, background is snow covered mountains protruding through cloud cover, top quarter is clear blue sky
- Credit
- Gift of Ted Raftery, Calgary, 1992
- Catalogue Number
- RaT.02.01
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Deception Pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.007
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.007
- Description
- Colour: blue. The lower five sixths of the canvas is blue snow with a ski trail going up from the lower right corner up and across left to the center of the crest where three figures are trudging. The sky beyond is streaked with a long horizontal cloud. In the upper left corner in the distance are …
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- Title
- Deception Pass
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 63.5 x 70.6 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue. The lower five sixths of the canvas is blue snow with a ski trail going up from the lower right corner up and across left to the center of the crest where three figures are trudging. The sky beyond is streaked with a long horizontal cloud. In the upper left corner in the distance are snowy peaks.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.007
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Filling in the Bathtubs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.029
- 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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.029
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Kanai, Sunday Football
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.178
- Date
- 1933 – 1934
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.178
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- Title
- Kanai, Sunday Football
- Date
- 1933 – 1934
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.6 x 35.4 cm
- Subject
- Kanai
- activity, football
- group
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.178
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Pete's "Grandmother"
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.018
- Date
- 1925 – 1930
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.018
- Description
- Colour: blue, brown on white. There are many figures in various skiing conditions all over the slope. In the lower right corner with her back to us stands an elderly lady of two board skis wearing a long skirt and a hat. At the crest of the hill on the right is a cabin and a flag. On the left are d…
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- Title
- Pete's "Grandmother"
- Date
- 1925 – 1930
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91.4 x 101.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, brown on white. There are many figures in various skiing conditions all over the slope. In the lower right corner with her back to us stands an elderly lady of two board skis wearing a long skirt and a hat. At the crest of the hill on the right is a cabin and a flag. On the left are distant mountains and clear blue sky across the top.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.018
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Practicing For Canoe Racing, Waikiki
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.207
- Date
- 1933 – 1934
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.207
- Description
- In the foreground, six men with paddles in a canoe on the ocean, lots of whitecaps. The horizon has a land mass from the left to centre and a ocean liner. Big white clouds.
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- Title
- Practicing For Canoe Racing, Waikiki
- Date
- 1933 – 1934
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.9 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- In the foreground, six men with paddles in a canoe on the ocean, lots of whitecaps. The horizon has a land mass from the left to centre and a ocean liner. Big white clouds.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.207
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Schusing the Gully
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmcr.02.01
- Date
- prior to 1960
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- McR.02.01
- Description
- General colour: yellow brown, blue. Trees grow up either side of a snow sky trail which widens from the lower center to fill the bottom edge. A skier bent over in speed is on the right side. In the background below is the treed and snowy valley. Mountains up above meet clouded blue sky.
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- Title
- Schusing the Gully
- Date
- prior to 1960
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 102.4 x 119.9 cm
- Description
- General colour: yellow brown, blue. Trees grow up either side of a snow sky trail which widens from the lower center to fill the bottom edge. A skier bent over in speed is on the right side. In the background below is the treed and snowy valley. Mountains up above meet clouded blue sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Gus Baracus, Banff, 1971
- Catalogue Number
- McR.02.01
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The Ski Jumper, Mount Norquay, Banff
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmcr.02.02
- Date
- prior to 1960
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- McR.02.02
- Description
- General colour: brown, blue. Diagonally across the lower right corner stand a row of figures with their backs to the viewer. Above them is a skier suspended in the air at the peak of his jump. In the background is a mountain and valley below.
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- Title
- The Ski Jumper, Mount Norquay, Banff
- Date
- prior to 1960
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 120.7 x 120.7 cm
- Description
- General colour: brown, blue. Diagonally across the lower right corner stand a row of figures with their backs to the viewer. Above them is a skier suspended in the air at the peak of his jump. In the background is a mountain and valley below.
- Subject
- activity, ski jumping
- winter
- Credit
- Gift of Gus Baracus, Banff, 1971
- Catalogue Number
- McR.02.02
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Skiing the High Country
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.006
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.006
- Description
- Colour: blue. A ski trail comes up from the lower right across to center where there are three figures going over the crest of the hill. Behind are peaks and slopes meeting a bright sky which becomes darker near the top. The sky fills a little less than two thirds of the picture.
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- Title
- Skiing the High Country
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 53 x 64 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue. A ski trail comes up from the lower right across to center where there are three figures going over the crest of the hill. Behind are peaks and slopes meeting a bright sky which becomes darker near the top. The sky fills a little less than two thirds of the picture.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.006
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