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A forest fire in the Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15102
- Published Date
- 1890
- Physical Description
- p.128, ill.
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Notes
- In The Dominion Illustrated [newspaper], vol.IV, no.86, (February 1890)
- photograph on p.128, description on p.119 under "Our Engravings"
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Athabaska Forest
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue23248
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1920 (signed Dec. 1919. Calgary/R.D.M)
- Publisher
- 1920 Forestry Branch
- Call Number
- C2-11.8
- Responsibility
- R.H. Campbell
- Publisher
- 1920 Forestry Branch
- Published Date
- 1920 (signed Dec. 1919. Calgary/R.D.M)
- Scale
- Scale: 3 miles to an inch
- Subjects
- Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve
- Notes
- Prepared under direction of R.H. Campbell Director of Forestry
- Call Number
- C2-11.8
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- JaA.03.06
- Description
- Pencil sketch of foothills with mountain range in background. A river indicated in foreground flows from left bottom corner to right, brc is river bank. Light and heavy pencil lines with shading, indicating trees and hills. Colour notes throughout. Drawing made on light sketchbook paper, serra…
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- Title
- Burnt Wood
- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.7 x 27.8 cm
- Description
- Pencil sketch of foothills with mountain range in background. A river indicated in foreground flows from left bottom corner to right, brc is river bank. Light and heavy pencil lines with shading, indicating trees and hills. Colour notes throughout. Drawing made on light sketchbook paper, serrated top edge, rounded corners bl and br.
- Credit
- Gift of Naomi Jackson Groves, Ottawa, 1989
- Catalogue Number
- JaA.03.06
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[Cypress Hills Forest Reserve]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue23238
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1927
- Publisher
- Dept. of The Interior
- Call Number
- C2-11.1
- Publisher
- Dept. of The Interior
- Published Date
- 1927
- Physical Description
- 1 map : col
- Scale
- Scale: 1 inch : 1 mile
- Contour Interval 20 feet
- Subjects
- Cypress Hills Forest Reserve
- Accession Number
- 718
- Call Number
- C2-11.1
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.071
- Description
- Oil painting of a beige and brown tepee and tall dark green pine tree with more smaller same-coloured trees in the background. Vague shapes behind those could either be mountains or clouds done in shades of blue and seafoam green. Signed “Peter Whyte -29” in bottom right corner.
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- Title
- Teepee
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 14.3 x 13.2 cm
- Description
- Oil painting of a beige and brown tepee and tall dark green pine tree with more smaller same-coloured trees in the background. Vague shapes behind those could either be mountains or clouds done in shades of blue and seafoam green. Signed “Peter Whyte -29” in bottom right corner.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.071
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Teepee Where Pete and Gardner stayed
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.346
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.346
- Description
- A cream coloured teepee with the opening on the right in a green area with many trees behind it.
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- Title
- Teepee Where Pete and Gardner stayed
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 22.9 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- A cream coloured teepee with the opening on the right in a green area with many trees behind it.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- forest
- camp
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.346
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.039
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- Title
- Lake O'Hara
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 22.5 x 27.6 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- forest
- mountains
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.039
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Castleguard River Region
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.145
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.145
- Description
- The lower third is tall dark trees with a gap at the right side. Behind are blue trees. In the centre behind them is a brown hill and a ridge of purple mountains. Cloudy sky fills the top quarter.
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- Title
- Castleguard River Region
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 22.9 x 27.8 cm
- Description
- The lower third is tall dark trees with a gap at the right side. Behind are blue trees. In the centre behind them is a brown hill and a ridge of purple mountains. Cloudy sky fills the top quarter.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- forest
- mountains
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.145
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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- Date
- later than 1886
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- MrT.02.01
- Description
- General colour: green, brown. Central image is a wooden grave marker stuck at the end of a mound of dirt left of center. It reads Sacred to A.R. Underwood. Died July 31, 1886. It is shadowed by a tree whose double trunk is at the right side. Behind is woods, dark trees and light underbrush.
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- Title
- Pioneer Grave
- Date
- later than 1886
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 16.5 x 27.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: green, brown. Central image is a wooden grave marker stuck at the end of a mound of dirt left of center. It reads Sacred to A.R. Underwood. Died July 31, 1886. It is shadowed by a tree whose double trunk is at the right side. Behind is woods, dark trees and light underbrush.
- Subject
- landscape, forest
- historical
- Credit
- Purchased from Bashford's Corner Ltd, Calgary, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- MrT.02.01
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- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- wood; horn; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0075
- Description
- A carved wooden wolf or fox with a sharp nose and large pointed ears and inset glass eyes. The animals is dressed in a long-tailed coat with a bag across its chest hanging at one side. The left hand is replaced by chamois horn which is being brushed with a clothes brush held in the right hand. T…
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- Title
- Whip Hook
- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- wood; horn; glass
- Dimensions
- 33.5 x 7.5 x 13.0 cm
- Description
- A carved wooden wolf or fox with a sharp nose and large pointed ears and inset glass eyes. The animals is dressed in a long-tailed coat with a bag across its chest hanging at one side. The left hand is replaced by chamois horn which is being brushed with a clothes brush held in the right hand. The right leg is crossed over left which is another chamois horn, and the bushy tail is wrapped around both legs. The back is flat with a hole for hanging.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0075
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