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Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff [Published Date: 1988]. Soft cover, 36 pp. Third Printing, 2002. Catalog prepared in connection with an exhibition at the Whyte Museum June 1 - July 14, 1988. Curator: Edward Cavell. Includes 18 full color plates and numerous black and white illustrations and photo reproductions. Includes the following essays: Mountain Lives; Mountain Painters; The Whyte's Museum. [From Foreword] If you seek a graceful and heart warming story about philanthropy and humanism, you could do no better this little book that recounts the vision and times of Banff's pre eminent patrons and artists, Peter and Catharine Whyte.You will be afforded a rare glimpse into their art and their world as told by their nephew Jon, a poet and raconteur who illuminates their history with his prodigious love of the arts, the mountains, and the everyday life of old Banff.