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Burial of Chief David Bearspaw
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.030
- Date
- 1956
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.030
- Description
- Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.
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- Title
- Burial of Chief David Bearspaw
- Date
- 1956
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61.8 x 74.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.030
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- Date
- 1955 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- DoW.02.03
- Description
- Image is of two female figure skaters on ice with snow-covered mountains in the background. Both are wearing red, pleated skirts and one figure is facing left with both legs on the ice, and the other is facing out and is doing a high kick. (Lake Minnewanka?)Writing on back in red pen/marker: “Fig…
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- Title
- Skaters
- Date
- 1955 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 68 x 138 cm
- Description
- Image is of two female figure skaters on ice with snow-covered mountains in the background. Both are wearing red, pleated skirts and one figure is facing left with both legs on the ice, and the other is facing out and is doing a high kick. (Lake Minnewanka?)Writing on back in red pen/marker: “Figure Skater 11’7” x 5’8” “Artist signature is in the bottom right corner: “Wadym D.”cascade hotel mural
- Credit
- Gift of Leo Wedro, Calgary, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- DoW.02.03
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- Date
- 1951
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.06.02
- Description
- The bronze modelled by Peter Whyte and cast by Charlie Beil. The bronze ski jumper is in an outstretched position, the skis resting on a sphere 20.0 diameter which stands on a flat circular base, this is all on top of a black wooden base; inscribed into the bronze base is North American Ski Champio…
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- Title
- Ski Jumper
- Date
- 1951
- Dimensions
- 36.0;18.0 x 21.0;25.3 x 41.0;24.9 cm
- Description
- The bronze modelled by Peter Whyte and cast by Charlie Beil. The bronze ski jumper is in an outstretched position, the skis resting on a sphere 20.0 diameter which stands on a flat circular base, this is all on top of a black wooden base; inscribed into the bronze base is North American Ski Championships. Brass plates nailed on to wooden base indicating Peter Whyte Memorial Trophy and winners.
- Subject
- figure
- activity
- ski jumping
- winter
- Credit
- Gift of Bob Leighton, 1971
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.06.02
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Covered Bridge
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacthba.04.02
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HbA.04.02
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- Title
- Covered Bridge
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.3 x 17.4 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- HbA.04.02
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- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.482
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- Title
- Skiers
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.6 x 35.2 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.482
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Ike Mills Bringing the Skoki Stove
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.032
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.032
- Description
- Colour: brown, blue, white. A team of seven dogs pulls a sled with a stove on it and a driver behind wearing snow shoes, coat and hat, brandishes a whip. It is moving to the right across white snow. The sky is blue and comes down to meet a white mountain peak of snow left of center in the upper hal…
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- Title
- Ike Mills Bringing the Skoki Stove
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45.6 x 78.6 cm
- Description
- Colour: brown, blue, white. A team of seven dogs pulls a sled with a stove on it and a driver behind wearing snow shoes, coat and hat, brandishes a whip. It is moving to the right across white snow. The sky is blue and comes down to meet a white mountain peak of snow left of center in the upper half. Pete painted this to go over Ike's fireplace, where it hung for 30 years.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.032
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- Date
- 1931
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1110
- Description
- Wide mouthed, shallow loving cup, silver plate. Inscription on side: "Presented by S.F.S.C. to Mary Simpson 1931"
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- Title
- Loving Cup
- Date
- 1931
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 22.0 cm
- Description
- Wide mouthed, shallow loving cup, silver plate. Inscription on side: "Presented by S.F.S.C. to Mary Simpson 1931"
- Subject
- activities
- sports
- winter
- figure skating
- Mary Simpson
- Credit
- Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1110
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil; graphite; charcoal on canvas; board
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.01.06 a,b
- Description
- (a) a painting in colours blue, brown. In a circular format, a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are snow-covered mountains in the background and blue sky.(b) a drawing in charcoal and pencil of the above painting: a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretc…
- Title
- Design for pin
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil; graphite; charcoal on canvas; board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- (a) a painting in colours blue, brown. In a circular format, a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are snow-covered mountains in the background and blue sky.(b) a drawing in charcoal and pencil of the above painting: a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are mountains in the background.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.01.06 a,b
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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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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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