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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
- 2011
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Catalogue Number
- GuR.02.01
- Description
- A landscape oil painting, on board, of forest on fire. The painting is dominated by one central tree. Fallen tree on fire diagonally across painting in foreground. Background is thick forest on fire and some blue sky with orange smoke. Primarily red, green, blue and yellow color palette. Au verso s…
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- Title
- #4 Wildfires
- Date
- 2011
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 19.2 x 24.3 cm
- Description
- A landscape oil painting, on board, of forest on fire. The painting is dominated by one central tree. Fallen tree on fire diagonally across painting in foreground. Background is thick forest on fire and some blue sky with orange smoke. Primarily red, green, blue and yellow color palette. Au verso several stickers. At top white with black printing “THIS PAINTING HAS BEEN DONATED TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF THE WHYTE MUSEUM OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES AT BANFF. IT IS A GIFT FROM THE ARTIST, ROBERT GUEST OF GRANDE CACHE. 2012.” Sticker middle right is yellow with black print, “ CAUTION! HELP AVOID FADING: Display original artwork out of direct sunlight or other strong light, and away from heat or moist conditions!” Bottom left label, white with black printing, “#4. Wildfires./2011” NEW OILPAINT SERIES - 8X10 “ PANELS AT GRANDE CACHE, BY R. GUEST.” Bottom left sticker, blue with black print, see artist bio.
- Subject
- landscape
- forest fire
- Robert Guest
- Credit
- Purchased from Robert Guest, Grande Cache, 2012
- Catalogue Number
- GuR.02.01
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If this tree could talk : what fire-scarred trees in the Rocky Mountain Trench reveal about the human use of burning long before European settlement
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15249
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Barnes, Trish
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol. 1, 2016
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Barnes, Trish
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol. 1, 2016
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- p.20-21
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Accession Number
- P2016 - 73,000 - 05
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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