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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1926 – 1928

Medium: graphite on conte paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.022

Description: A simply drawn seated female life drawing facing the viewer. Her hair is chin-length. Right hand rests on the ledge on which she is perched and her left arm positioned by her side. Her hands and feet are incomplete. The figure’s right leg bends at the knee with her foot on a ledge and right foot re…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1926 – 1928

Medium: graphite on conte paper

Dimensions: 63.0 x 47.5 cm

Description: A simply drawn seated female life drawing facing the viewer. Her hair is chin-length. Right hand rests on the ledge on which she is perched and her left arm positioned by her side. Her hands and feet are incomplete. The figure’s right leg bends at the knee with her foot on a ledge and right foot resting on the ground. with Signature in tr: Peter White; ‘March 17thWatermark; Michallet/ France tlc

Subject: figure; seated female

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.022

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928 – 1935

Medium: graphite; ink; on paper;

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.18

Description: Hardcover “Punch” sketchbook with the December 26, 1928 magazine cover replicated for the cover. Contents include sketches by Peter Whyte, some just figure studies, some complete with ink and occasionally colour. Sketches include people, horses, cowboys, soldiers, faces, hands, cartoon animals, men…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1928 – 1935

Medium: graphite; ink; on paper;

Dimensions: 25.9 x 20.1 cm

Description: Hardcover “Punch” sketchbook with the December 26, 1928 magazine cover replicated for the cover. Contents include sketches by Peter Whyte, some just figure studies, some complete with ink and occasionally colour. Sketches include people, horses, cowboys, soldiers, faces, hands, cartoon animals, men in a classroom setting, airplanes in flight, cars, children, ski jumpers, people in a restaurant, people skating, and portraits.

Subject: drawing; sketching; figure studies; children; horses; curling; skating; ski jumping; Indigenous Peoples; Inuit; military; Peter Whyte; King George VI

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.18

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934 – 1934

Medium: graphite; watercolour; on paper;

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.26

Description: Fabric-wrapped cardboard cover Japanese sketchbook with high-quality paper pages. All pages stacked folded over each other like an accordion. Contents include figure studies and caricatures/stylized portraits of Japanese men and women, often holding umbrella - almost all of the images of women have…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1934 – 1934

Medium: graphite; watercolour; on paper;

Dimensions: 24.2 x 18.22 cm

Description: Fabric-wrapped cardboard cover Japanese sketchbook with high-quality paper pages. All pages stacked folded over each other like an accordion. Contents include figure studies and caricatures/stylized portraits of Japanese men and women, often holding umbrella - almost all of the images of women have been coloured in with watercolour paint.

Subject: sketching; drawing; portrait; figure study; Japan; painting; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.09.26

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1916 – 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.078

Description: Drawing of male figure skater gliding on ice with left leg straight back and up off the ice, right arm forward and bent, left arm straight back, right leg forward and bent. Image bordered by 4mm border all around.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1916 – 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 21.3 cm

Description: Drawing of male figure skater gliding on ice with left leg straight back and up off the ice, right arm forward and bent, left arm straight back, right leg forward and bent. Image bordered by 4mm border all around.

Subject: figure skater; skating

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.078

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1916 – 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.090

Description: Sketch of figure sitting with arms wrapped loosely around knees.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1916 – 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 15 x 10.5 cm

Description: Sketch of figure sitting with arms wrapped loosely around knees.

Subject: figure; sitting

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.090

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1916 – 1927

Medium: graphite on board

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.091

Description: Very rough sketch of head and shoulders of person (?). On reverse side “Reserved” is printed in blue ink with a crest centered above it.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1916 – 1927

Medium: graphite on board

Dimensions: 11 x 23.3 cm

Description: Very rough sketch of head and shoulders of person (?). On reverse side “Reserved” is printed in blue ink with a crest centered above it.