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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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Pencil

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Date: n.d.

Material: metal

Catalogue Number: 104.39.0020

Description: Metal pencil with twist end and small ring at top.

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Title: Pencil

Date: n.d.

Material: metal

Dimensions: 1.0 x 10.5 cm

Description: Metal pencil with twist end and small ring at top.

Subject: Whyte home; art supplies; Peter Whyte; Catharine Robb Whyte; drawing; sketching

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

Catalogue Number: 104.39.0020

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Sketches

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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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SKETCHES BANFF 1928

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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.