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Mountain Sheep

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Date: 1918

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: RuC.05.01

Description: Three mountain sheep in center left of picture, two facing front, one turned away - painted by Carl Rungius. Background painted by Jimmy Simpson shows brownish rocks in foreground on which sheep are standing, a mountain side runs from top left to bottom right, is blue with yellow tint towards top l…

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Title: Mountain Sheep

Date: 1918

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.0 x 29.5 cm

Description: Three mountain sheep in center left of picture, two facing front, one turned away - painted by Carl Rungius. Background painted by Jimmy Simpson shows brownish rocks in foreground on which sheep are standing, a mountain side runs from top left to bottom right, is blue with yellow tint towards top left. A snowy mountain side is in right background, some sky with yellowish clouds show through.

Subject: landscape, mountain; animal, sheep, bighorn

Credit: Purchased from Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1988

Catalogue Number: RuC.05.01

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

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Cultus Creek

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Artist: Charles Morrise Brousson ( – 1941)

Date: 1920

Medium: oil on wood

Catalogue Number: BrC.02.01

Description: A primitive painting on a piece of wood. The foreground is beige and brown bank with a white and brown tepee on the left. Beyond this the creek, blue and white extends to mid centre. The top half of the painting is a slope covered with trees to left and a mountain, blue, white and green, to the ri…

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Artist: Charles Morrise Brousson ( – 1941)

Title: Cultus Creek

Date: 1920

Medium: oil on wood

Dimensions: 10.5 x 15.1 cm

Description: A primitive painting on a piece of wood. The foreground is beige and brown bank with a white and brown tepee on the left. Beyond this the creek, blue and white extends to mid centre. The top half of the painting is a slope covered with trees to left and a mountain, blue, white and green, to the right. A cloudy grey sky.

Subject: Canadian Rockies; landscape; mountain; creek; building; tepee

Credit: Gift of Earle Birney, Toronto, 1969

Catalogue Number: BrC.02.01

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Mount Barnard

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Date: 1922

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ThM.05.02

Description: Colour: white, blue, pink, green. Looking from a glacier across a wide plain.Blowing snow obscures a distant snowy peak.

Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Title: Mount Barnard

Date: 1922

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 13.5 x 22.5 cm

Description: Colour: white, blue, pink, green. Looking from a glacier across a wide plain.Blowing snow obscures a distant snowy peak.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of anonymous, 1971

Catalogue Number: ThM.05.02

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Freshfield Group

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Date: 1922

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ThM.05.01

Description: General colour: white, blue, purple. A distant mountain skyline with dotted routes marked on the right and at center. The name of each peak is marked at the end of a line which comes down perpendicular to the mountains, from the sky which is blue except for couds hanging just above the peaks.

Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Title: Freshfield Group

Date: 1922

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 37.5 x 24.5 cm

Description: General colour: white, blue, purple. A distant mountain skyline with dotted routes marked on the right and at center. The name of each peak is marked at the end of a line which comes down perpendicular to the mountains, from the sky which is blue except for couds hanging just above the peaks.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of anonymous, 1971

Catalogue Number: ThM.05.01

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Park Range

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.539

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Park Range

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.2 x 27.7 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.539

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Castleguard Meadows

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.594

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Castleguard Meadows

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 27.8 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; camp; tent; figure; male

Credit: Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.594

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Teepee

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

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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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

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.

Subject: teepee; landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; forest; camp

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.071

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Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.360

Description: The bottom half of the picture is the green of a forest, a brown road is centre bottom. Mountain range in background with the top third of the painting a cloudy sky.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.0 x 30.4 cm

Description: The bottom half of the picture is the green of a forest, a brown road is centre bottom. Mountain range in background with the top third of the painting a cloudy sky.