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York Boat on Lake Winnipeg

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.17

Description: Colour: green grey, pink, brown with blue and orange. Central image is the left profile of a boat coming through waves. Its sail is only partly in view. There are eight figures in the boat - one with a feather headdress. In the lower right corner is a sea gull-wings spread. On the horizon at the ri…

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: York Boat on Lake Winnipeg

Date: 1930

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 25.4 x 35.1 cm

Description: Colour: green grey, pink, brown with blue and orange. Central image is the left profile of a boat coming through waves. Its sail is only partly in view. There are eight figures in the boat - one with a feather headdress. In the lower right corner is a sea gull-wings spread. On the horizon at the right side is a rock island with a couple of wind blown trees on it. The sky above is yellow with dark grey at the upper edge.

Subject: landscape; lake; figure, group; boat

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.17

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Untitled [cowboy roping horse]

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour on pressed paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.05.01

Description: A cowboy wearing a blue shirt, brown vest, green neckerchief, orange/yellow chaps, a holster and gun, in bottom right of picture, has roped a horse on front legs, center left. The roped horse is falling forward. Six other horses are running in the background, a lot of dust in corral. The sky is yel…

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [cowboy roping horse]

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour on pressed paper

Dimensions: 32.5 x 25.4 cm

Description: A cowboy wearing a blue shirt, brown vest, green neckerchief, orange/yellow chaps, a holster and gun, in bottom right of picture, has roped a horse on front legs, center left. The roped horse is falling forward. Six other horses are running in the background, a lot of dust in corral. The sky is yellow. The roped horse has a brand on left shoulder: lazy N over bar one.

Subject: figure, cowboy; animal, horse

Credit: Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983

Catalogue Number: BeC.05.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1930

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.05

Description: A sketchbook with a black spine and pressed paper cover in black and white. There is a white rectangular label with “Peter Whyte Banff” written in graphite pencil. It contains several black and white and coloured sketches done by Peter Whyte of various subjects including people, places, structures,…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930 – 1930

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 26 x 20.2 cm

Description: A sketchbook with a black spine and pressed paper cover in black and white. There is a white rectangular label with “Peter Whyte Banff” written in graphite pencil. It contains several black and white and coloured sketches done by Peter Whyte of various subjects including people, places, structures, and transports (mostly ships) from trips through Asia, Africa, and Hawaii taken during 1930.

Subject: sketching; drawing; figure studies; ships; Asia; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.05

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Untitled

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.02

Description: Sketches of a man standing, a man running and a horse's fetlock and hoof on one side of fold; 4 sketches of horses on the other. The reverse on the sheet has two sketches of saddles, the other side of the fold has sketches of horses, one saddled (no bridle) one running, and the head and eye of anot…

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 18.3 x 30.9 cm

Description: Sketches of a man standing, a man running and a horse's fetlock and hoof on one side of fold; 4 sketches of horses on the other. The reverse on the sheet has two sketches of saddles, the other side of the fold has sketches of horses, one saddled (no bridle) one running, and the head and eye of another.

Subject: figure, man; animal, horse

Credit: Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.02

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At the Yoho Camp

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.430

Description: A brown cabin with white trim is in left centre, another building to the left of it. Mountain in the distance at centre right. Large evergreen trees beside the cabin. Billowy sky. A saddled brown horse is standing near a standing man in the right foreground.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: At the Yoho Camp

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: A brown cabin with white trim is in left centre, another building to the left of it. Mountain in the distance at centre right. Large evergreen trees beside the cabin. Billowy sky. A saddled brown horse is standing near a standing man in the right foreground.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; architecture; rural; animal; horse; figure; male; camping

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.430

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.731

Description: A group of children signing together in a background while a lady plays a grand piano in the foreground. There are lines extending from the piano to emphasis music being played, and these lines direct the viewers attention to a little stick figure dancing on the ground to the right of the piano. ve…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 10.0 x 15.0 cm

Description: A group of children signing together in a background while a lady plays a grand piano in the foreground. There are lines extending from the piano to emphasis music being played, and these lines direct the viewers attention to a little stick figure dancing on the ground to the right of the piano. verso: in the TRC “Concord November 1930”