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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

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.414
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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