topic:"lake" found 228 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Lake McArthur and Mount Biddle

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.130

Description: Colour: blue, purple, green, cream. The bottom edge is blue water. Brown and green shore gives way to snow patch which is partly shadowed. In the upper half is purple mountain rock face. Sky in the upper right corner is cloudless.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake McArthur and Mount Biddle

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 10.75 x 8.5 cm

Description: Colour: blue, purple, green, cream. The bottom edge is blue water. Brown and green shore gives way to snow patch which is partly shadowed. In the upper half is purple mountain rock face. Sky in the upper right corner is cloudless.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; Mount Biddle; lake; Lake McArthur

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.130

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Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.132

Description: Colour: purple, turquoise, yellow. At the lower edge is a dark turquoise lake. The far shore goes from purple to green trees to grey to purple to yellow to brown mountain.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake O'Hara

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.8 x 27.0 cm

Description: Colour: purple, turquoise, yellow. At the lower edge is a dark turquoise lake. The far shore goes from purple to green trees to grey to purple to yellow to brown mountain.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; Lake O'Hara

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.132

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Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.001

Description: Colour: green, blue. The lower quarter is a green lake, the bottom edge being the near shore with two short trees at the right side. The far shore is green and blue trees with a rode jutting out on the left side that is lit by the sun from the right. Upper half is grey, purple mountains and a patch…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake O'Hara

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Description: Colour: green, blue. The lower quarter is a green lake, the bottom edge being the near shore with two short trees at the right side. The far shore is green and blue trees with a rode jutting out on the left side that is lit by the sun from the right. Upper half is grey, purple mountains and a patch of sky along the upper edge right of center.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; Lake O’Hara

Credit: Gift of Forrest (Pat) Oliver Brewster, Banff, 1967

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.001

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Lake Louise

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.122

Description: Colours: greys, brown, blue, green. A grey-blue lake fills the lower edge. At the left on the far shore is a group of trees. A mountain rises up beyond. Snow is at the top and part-way down. There is a red brown rock at the right. Grey sky goes along the upper edge except in the upper right corner.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake Louise

Date: 1930 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.3 cm

Description: Colours: greys, brown, blue, green. A grey-blue lake fills the lower edge. At the left on the far shore is a group of trees. A mountain rises up beyond. Snow is at the top and part-way down. There is a red brown rock at the right. Grey sky goes along the upper edge except in the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; Lake Louise

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.122

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Third Vermilion Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.160

Description: A fall scene, very colourful. Brilliant gold and green vegetation, two dark evergreens and one yellow aspen to the immediate right, green bank and some evergreens to the left. In the middle flows the lake getting larger in the centre. Gold green and blue mountains with gold bank are the upper half,…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Third Vermilion Lake

Date: 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.8 x 34.5 cm

Description: A fall scene, very colourful. Brilliant gold and green vegetation, two dark evergreens and one yellow aspen to the immediate right, green bank and some evergreens to the left. In the middle flows the lake getting larger in the centre. Gold green and blue mountains with gold bank are the upper half, very little sky, light blue with two white clouds.