After making sculptures for high-end hotels, he entered a double-blind open show and was the only sculptor chosen to join the Society of Portrait Sculptors, where he worked in tandem with the sculptor to the royal family. Whyte created busts of more than a dozen CEOs, politicians and athletes, including the Duke of Westminster, financier Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and the late Australian Prime Minister Sir Joseph Cook. Six of Whyte’s memorials are in England, and there are 10 in the United States, including the National Salute to Bob Hope and the Military, and the Tribute to Fallen Deputies, both in San Diego; Martin Luther King Jr.