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Ice Blocks, Athabasca Glacier

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1941
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.159
Description
The canvas is dominated by huge iceblocks in grey, blue, white and brown. Part of the rock wall and Athabasca Glacier show up in the ochre and white peaks, very little sky in mid-and right-hand corner.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Ice Blocks, Athabasca Glacier
Date
1941
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.7 x 35.4 cm
Description
The canvas is dominated by huge iceblocks in grey, blue, white and brown. Part of the rock wall and Athabasca Glacier show up in the ochre and white peaks, very little sky in mid-and right-hand corner.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
iceblocks
glacier, Athabasca
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.159
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Artist
Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)
Date
1942
Medium
oil on canvas board
Catalogue Number
BwB.02.07
Description
General colour: purple, blue and yellow. Foreground - flowers, grass, a log lies left to center. Poplars with occasional pine, in the distance make a horizon. Three chunks of mountain rise up behind and a grey clouded sky fills the top.
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Artist
Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)
Title
Massive Range
Date
1942
Medium
oil on canvas board
Dimensions
22.0 x 27.0 cm
Description
General colour: purple, blue and yellow. Foreground - flowers, grass, a log lies left to center. Poplars with occasional pine, in the distance make a horizon. Three chunks of mountain rise up behind and a grey clouded sky fills the top.
Subject
landscape
Rocky Mountains
mountain
Massive Range
Credit
Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1974
Catalogue Number
BwB.02.07
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Ice Blocks, Toe, Athabasca Glacier

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1942
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.02.012
Description
Colour: blue. Huge chunks of ice fill the lower three quarters of the picture. Behind to the left is a dark ridge of rock. Behind at center is a purple ridge of mountain with sky in the upper right corner and across the upper edge to left of center.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Ice Blocks, Toe, Athabasca Glacier
Date
1942
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
63 x 76 cm
Description
Colour: blue. Huge chunks of ice fill the lower three quarters of the picture. Behind to the left is a dark ridge of rock. Behind at center is a purple ridge of mountain with sky in the upper right corner and across the upper edge to left of center.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
mountain
glacier
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
Catalogue Number
WyP.02.012
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1944
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.197
Description
Yellow house in Tofino.
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
House near Tofino
Date
1944
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
22.8 x 28.0 cm
Description
Yellow house in Tofino.
Subject
architecture
house
landscape
Pacific
Vancouver Island
Tofino
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.197
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1944
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.176
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Tofino
Date
1944
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.8 x 35.2 cm
Subject
landscape
architecture
rural
water
Tofino
figures
group
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.176
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1944
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.265
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Ansons near Calgary
Date
1944
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.6 x 35.0 cm
Subject
military
transportation, airplane
Peter Whyte
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.265
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1944
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.270
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Tofino Airfield
Date
1944
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.6 x 35.3 cm
Subject
transportation, airplane
military
landscape
mountain
Tofino
vehicle
Peter Whyte
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.270
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Andre and A.Y. at Sunshine

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Artist
Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)
Date
1947
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
DaK.03.04
Description
General colour: pencil on white. Two men in suits sitting at a table. The one in front faces right and is writing. The one behind faces more out and is reading. He wears glasses. Behind them in the upper left corner are book shelves. In the upper right corner is a lamp.
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Artist
Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)
Title
Andre and A.Y. at Sunshine
Date
1947
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
29.0 x 36.5 cm
Description
General colour: pencil on white. Two men in suits sitting at a table. The one in front faces right and is writing. The one behind faces more out and is reading. He wears glasses. Behind them in the upper left corner are book shelves. In the upper right corner is a lamp.
Subject
figure
male
Credit
Purchased from Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper, 1970
Catalogue Number
DaK.03.04
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Artist
Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian)
Date
1947
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
JaA.02.01
Description
General colour: green greys, blue. Cluster of buildings across the lower third. Mountains sweeps up behind to a clouded blue sky.
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Artist
Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian)
Title
Canmore, Alberta
Date
1947
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
52.8 x 43.8 cm
Description
General colour: green greys, blue. Cluster of buildings across the lower third. Mountains sweeps up behind to a clouded blue sky.
Subject
landscape, mountains
architecture, urban
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
Catalogue Number
JaA.02.01
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Sawback Range, West Road

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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.104
Description
Sawback Range and yellow aspens from West Raod.
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Sawback Range, West Road
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
25.4 x 30.3 cm
Description
Sawback Range and yellow aspens from West Raod.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Sawback Range
West Road
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.104
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.202
Description
The Crowfoot Glacier comprises 2/3 of the sketch. The glacier is visible running down the mountain side. The rough terrain of the mountains is depicted in various colour ranges of blue grey, reddish pinks, and yellows. A placid river runs below the mountains. A far bank is lined with a row of tall …
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Crowfoot Glacier
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
22.8 x 28.0 cm
Description
The Crowfoot Glacier comprises 2/3 of the sketch. The glacier is visible running down the mountain side. The rough terrain of the mountains is depicted in various colour ranges of blue grey, reddish pinks, and yellows. A placid river runs below the mountains. A far bank is lined with a row of tall evergreens. The front shoreline is comprised of lime green grasses. A single rock juts out of the water to the right of centre.
Subject
landscape
mountain
Canadian Rockies
lake
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.202
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Teepee at Num-Ti-Jah Lodge

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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.285
Description
View of a camp in a mountain valley. In the left foreground sits a large tepee. The tepee is shaded in greys with highlights in pale yellow and white. The tent flaps and opening are dark brown. Just to the left of the tepee is a grey tree stump, and part of a log cabin (with a red-brown roof and re…
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Teepee at Num-Ti-Jah Lodge
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
25.4 x 30.3 cm
Description
View of a camp in a mountain valley. In the left foreground sits a large tepee. The tepee is shaded in greys with highlights in pale yellow and white. The tent flaps and opening are dark brown. Just to the left of the tepee is a grey tree stump, and part of a log cabin (with a red-brown roof and red-brown trim) is visible behind the tepee. In the background is a large pyramidal mountain whose summit (coloured white, grey, light brown and outlined in black) mirrors to a certain extent, the form of the tepee. The lower slopes of the mountain form a range which stretches across the background. These slopes are coloured ochre, tan and violet-grey, with touches of white. The base of the mountain range is dark green. Three small clouds hover in the blue sky just above the mountain.
Subject
landscape
mountain
Canadian Rockies
architecture
rural
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.285
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Pete Painting, Pilot Mountain

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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1945 – 1950
Medium
oil on canvas on cardboard
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.293
Description
View of a lightly wooded field with a large blue mountain in the lefthand background. The foreground contains a grass-covered field (coloured in tans, ochre, red-brown and grey-brown) with trees scattered about. The foliage of the trees is coloured yellow, ochre and red-brown. Four of the tallest t…
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Pete Painting, Pilot Mountain
Date
1945 – 1950
Medium
oil on canvas on cardboard
Dimensions
28.0 x 35.5 cm
Description
View of a lightly wooded field with a large blue mountain in the lefthand background. The foreground contains a grass-covered field (coloured in tans, ochre, red-brown and grey-brown) with trees scattered about. The foliage of the trees is coloured yellow, ochre and red-brown. Four of the tallest trees fill the righthand side of the picture. A small figure (clothed in black) sits sketching near the lower left corner. (The paint in this corner is in bad condition.) The large background mountain is coloured medium blue at the top, with lower slopes of green. Areas of loose rock are sketched in near the centre of the mountain; These small areas are brown-grey with touches of orange indicating (larch?) trees. The sky is light blue.
Subject
landscape
mountain
Canadian Rockies
figure, male
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.293
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1940 – 1950
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.313
Description
Three small trees foreground right, small brown path blc moving towards centre, lake behind, dark mountain range peaks middle left of centre, swirling grey-toned clouds twirl around peak, trc solid grey area.
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier
Date
1940 – 1950
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
28.0 x 35.5 cm
Description
Three small trees foreground right, small brown path blc moving towards centre, lake behind, dark mountain range peaks middle left of centre, swirling grey-toned clouds twirl around peak, trc solid grey area.
Subject
landscape
mountain
Canadian Rockies
lake
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.313
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Crowfoot Glacier from Bow Summit

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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.155
Description
Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier seen from Bow Summit
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Crowfoot Glacier from Bow Summit
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
28.0 x 35.5 cm
Description
Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier seen from Bow Summit
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Crowfoot Glacier
Bow Summit
Bow Lake
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.155
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.139
Description
Green slopes undulate in the foreground down to the lake of the glacier. Trees dot either side of the slopes, diminishing in size around the baby blue coloured lake. The slopes of Crowfoot Glacier rise high above the lake below. The mountain range in colour from purple to green and yellow-ochre. An…
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Crowfoot Glacier
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
28.0 x 35.5 cm
Description
Green slopes undulate in the foreground down to the lake of the glacier. Trees dot either side of the slopes, diminishing in size around the baby blue coloured lake. The slopes of Crowfoot Glacier rise high above the lake below. The mountain range in colour from purple to green and yellow-ochre. An ominous grey cloud cover broods over the mountain peaks.
Subject
landscape
mountain
Canadian Rockies
lake
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.139
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Columbia Icefield, Athabasca Glacier

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1940 – 1945
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.158
Description
A large gnarled, dead grey and brown tree with long brances is centre leaning left. Fall vegetation, rust-coloured, is in the immediate foreground, evergeens to the right. The icefield dominates the painting spilling to moraine lower and right, grey-blue flanks to each side and a cloudy white sky.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Columbia Icefield, Athabasca Glacier
Date
1940 – 1945
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.8 x 35.5 cm
Description
A large gnarled, dead grey and brown tree with long brances is centre leaning left. Fall vegetation, rust-coloured, is in the immediate foreground, evergeens to the right. The icefield dominates the painting spilling to moraine lower and right, grey-blue flanks to each side and a cloudy white sky.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
icefield, Columbia
glacier, Athabasca
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.158
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Mount Victoria, Lake Louise

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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.414
Description
The snow covered mountain dominates the picture. Green forest and rocks slope to the centre. A green blue lake is the lower foreground.
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Mount Victoria, Lake Louise
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
25.2 x 30.3 cm
Description
The snow covered mountain dominates the picture. Green forest and rocks slope to the centre. A green blue lake is the lower foreground.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
mountain
lake
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.414
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1945 – 1950
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.02.062
Description
A front facing portrait of Chief George McLean (Walking Buffalo) in full regalia, including a large headdress, orange beaded shirt, and blue belt.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Chief George McLean
Date
1945 – 1950
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
75.5 x 63.0 cm
Description
A front facing portrait of Chief George McLean (Walking Buffalo) in full regalia, including a large headdress, orange beaded shirt, and blue belt.
Subject
portrait
male
Indigenous
costumes
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.02.062
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.117
Description
Colour: Warm blues, black, grey. A lake crosses the lower edge. Two black strips of trees go up each side from the center at the bottom of the glacier. Behind the glacier is a rock fall leading to a snow ridge and to the left a rock peak. The sky is the same colour as the snow-grey.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Lake Louise
Date
1945 – 1955
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
30.5 x 25.5 cm
Description
Colour: Warm blues, black, grey. A lake crosses the lower edge. Two black strips of trees go up each side from the center at the bottom of the glacier. Behind the glacier is a rock fall leading to a snow ridge and to the left a rock peak. The sky is the same colour as the snow-grey.
Subject
landscape
mountain
Canadian Rockies
lake
glacier
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.117
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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