topic:"figure" found 11 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Buffalo Dancer

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Artist: Velino Herrera (1902 – 1973, American)

Date: 1920 – 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: HeV.07.01

Description: An man in full ceremonial regalia, bison headdress, yellow skirt with snake design, red sash, white moccasins with brown fringes, rattles in right hand and horns in left. He is dancing, standing on left leg.

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Artist: Velino Herrera (1902 – 1973, American)

Title: Buffalo Dancer

Date: 1920 – 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 23.0 x 12.5 cm

Description: An man in full ceremonial regalia, bison headdress, yellow skirt with snake design, red sash, white moccasins with brown fringes, rattles in right hand and horns in left. He is dancing, standing on left leg.

Subject: activity, dancing; figure, male

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

Catalogue Number: HeV.07.01

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Covered Bridge

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Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Date: 1938

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: HbA.04.02

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Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Title: Covered Bridge

Date: 1938

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 12.3 x 17.4 cm

Subject: landscape, hills; animal, oxen; figure, male; winter; Christmas

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

Catalogue Number: HbA.04.02

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Design for pin

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil; graphite; charcoal on canvas; board

Catalogue Number: RuC.01.06 a,b

Description: (a) a painting in colours blue, brown. In a circular format, a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are snow-covered mountains in the background and blue sky.(b) a drawing in charcoal and pencil of the above painting: a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretc…

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

Title: Design for pin

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil; graphite; charcoal on canvas; board

Dimensions: 30.5 x 30.5 cm

Description: (a) a painting in colours blue, brown. In a circular format, a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are snow-covered mountains in the background and blue sky.(b) a drawing in charcoal and pencil of the above painting: a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are mountains in the background.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; activity, skiing; winter; figure, male

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: RuC.01.06 a,b

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Fishing Boats, Gimli Dock

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1937

Medium: wood cut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.32

Description: Docked boat, man standing on dock, dog in foreground on shoreline;

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Fishing Boats, Gimli Dock

Date: 1937

Medium: wood cut on paper

Dimensions: 12.3 x 18.3 cm

Description: Docked boat, man standing on dock, dog in foreground on shoreline;

Subject: landscape; lake; figure, male; animal, dog; boat

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

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.32

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Hunter Pulling Up Seal

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Artist: Eli Weetalooktook ( – 1958, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1958

Medium: stone; sinew; wood

Catalogue Number: WeS.06.01

Description: green stone; a parka clad Inuit hunter sitting with legs braced; leaning back to be almost horizontal; carved features; a piece of sinew in both hands which connects to a wood peg in a hole; the hole is in the centre of a carved point in a carved circle which is in a 2.5 wide carved depression ac…

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Artist: Eli Weetalooktook ( – 1958, Canadian)

Title: Hunter Pulling Up Seal

Date: prior to 1958

Medium: stone; sinew; wood

Dimensions: 7.2 x 11.5 cm

Description: green stone; a parka clad Inuit hunter sitting with legs braced; leaning back to be almost horizontal; carved features; a piece of sinew in both hands which connects to a wood peg in a hole; the hole is in the centre of a carved point in a carved circle which is in a 2.5 wide carved depression across base foreground.

Subject: figure, male; activity, hunting; fishing

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: WeS.06.01

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Ike Mills Bringing the Skoki Stove

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.032

Description: Colour: brown, blue, white. A team of seven dogs pulls a sled with a stove on it and a driver behind wearing snow shoes, coat and hat, brandishes a whip. It is moving to the right across white snow. The sky is blue and comes down to meet a white mountain peak of snow left of center in the upper hal…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Ike Mills Bringing the Skoki Stove

Date: 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 45.6 x 78.6 cm

Description: Colour: brown, blue, white. A team of seven dogs pulls a sled with a stove on it and a driver behind wearing snow shoes, coat and hat, brandishes a whip. It is moving to the right across white snow. The sky is blue and comes down to meet a white mountain peak of snow left of center in the upper half. Pete painted this to go over Ike's fireplace, where it hung for 30 years.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; transportation; figure, male; animal; dog; Ike Mills

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.032

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Nassau Beach

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.293

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Nassau Beach

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 23.0 x 27.7 cm

Subject: landscape; ocean, Atlantic; beach; boat; figure, male

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.293

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Pianist

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Artist: H. L. Stratton

Date: 1923

Medium: watercolour; ink on paper board

Catalogue Number: StH.05.01

Description: Almost blacked out pianist scene. Black background and piano, black suit on pianist. Only light areas on head and hands of pianist. Initialled .HLS.23. in pencil brc, pencilled on back Stratton 383W57 St..

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Artist: H. L. Stratton

Title: Pianist

Date: 1923

Medium: watercolour; ink on paper board

Dimensions: 20.5 x 19.7 cm

Description: Almost blacked out pianist scene. Black background and piano, black suit on pianist. Only light areas on head and hands of pianist. Initialled .HLS.23. in pencil brc, pencilled on back Stratton 383W57 St..