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Cowboy at Brewster Ranch
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcmd.03.01
- Artist
- Doris Cormie
- Date
- 1933
- Medium
- drawing on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CmD.03.01
- Description
- A pastel chalk drawing on brown paper. The drawing is a portrait of a young cowboy seated. The boy is wearing a blue shirt with a white scarf and tan chaps. He is sitting on a push foot stool that has a salmon-coloured throw over it. In the background behind the boy is a black and white cowhide han…
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- Artist
- Doris Cormie
- Title
- Cowboy at Brewster Ranch
- Date
- 1933
- Medium
- drawing on paper
- Dimensions
- 38.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- A pastel chalk drawing on brown paper. The drawing is a portrait of a young cowboy seated. The boy is wearing a blue shirt with a white scarf and tan chaps. He is sitting on a push foot stool that has a salmon-coloured throw over it. In the background behind the boy is a black and white cowhide hanging on the wall. There is a black chalk line border, 33 x 23 cm, around the drawing. the artist signature and date are in the bottom left hand corner, “DORIS CORMIE 8/23/33”.
- Subject
- cowboy
- ranch
- Doris Cormie
- Credit
- Gift of Barry Hunter Gillis, Richmond, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- CmD.03.01
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- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Medium
- charcoal on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.798
- Description
- Boxed-off rectangle with three children looking into a store window, and two of them are pointing at something in the store. To the left of the kids there is a dog sitting looking up at the store as well, and to the right there is a sled. In the background there is a loose drawing of what appears t…
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- Title
- Merry Xmas
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Medium
- charcoal on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.1 x 17.4 cm
- Description
- Boxed-off rectangle with three children looking into a store window, and two of them are pointing at something in the store. To the left of the kids there is a dog sitting looking up at the store as well, and to the right there is a sled. In the background there is a loose drawing of what appears to be more buildings. Written on the window of the store “MERRY XMAS”verso: in the TLC it says TLC “Taxi $2.50 Show 3.75 Flowers 4.00 Supper 6.25 16.50 16.50 + 1 evening = kiss”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.798
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Power Dam near Calgary
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcmd.03.02
- Artist
- Doris Cormie
- Date
- 1933
- Medium
- drawing on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CmD.03.02
- Description
- A pastel landscape drawing on brown paper. A large cement dam at left, reaching past the centre dominates the drawing. In the background the sky is a pale blue. The large, grey dam has white water rushing through on the viewer’s right. On the same side of the drawing, extending out of frame, is a …
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- Artist
- Doris Cormie
- Title
- Power Dam near Calgary
- Date
- 1933
- Medium
- drawing on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.5 x 38.5 cm
- Description
- A pastel landscape drawing on brown paper. A large cement dam at left, reaching past the centre dominates the drawing. In the background the sky is a pale blue. The large, grey dam has white water rushing through on the viewer’s right. On the same side of the drawing, extending out of frame, is a large brown rock with yellow and orange highlites. In the foreground is blue water with white highlites. The artist signature is written in the bottom right corner in pencil. Au verso, written in very faint pencil in the top right corner is, “Doris Cormie 23 Aug 1933”.
- Subject
- dam
- architecture
- Doris Cormie
- Credit
- Gift of Barry Hunter Gillis, Richmond, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- CmD.03.02
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Untitled [Sonia de Grandmaison]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdgn.03.13
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- drawing on paper
- Catalogue Number
- Dgn.03.13
- Description
- A charcoal drawing of a woman lying on a bed with bent knees and her head on a pillow. On viewer’s left the woman has her right arm raised with her hand on her cheek. The drawing is done on a piece of hotel stationery: stamped logo hotel left-hand corner with “COVERS AN ENTIRE BLOCK” printed undern…
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- Title
- Untitled [Sonia de Grandmaison]
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- drawing on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.7 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- A charcoal drawing of a woman lying on a bed with bent knees and her head on a pillow. On viewer’s left the woman has her right arm raised with her hand on her cheek. The drawing is done on a piece of hotel stationery: stamped logo hotel left-hand corner with “COVERS AN ENTIRE BLOCK” printed underneath, right-hand corner “ONE OF AMERICA’S EXCEPTIONAL HOTELS, DAVENPORT HOTEL, LOUIE M. DAVENPORT, PRESIDENT” underneath “SPOKANE, WASHINGTON”. Written in pen mid-to-right hand side under drawing “1931 Spokane, Wash. Sketch by Nicholas de Grandmaison on our honeymoon in Spokane Wash.”
- Subject
- portrait
- woman
- Sonia de Grandmaison
- Credit
- Gift of Nicolas Jr. de Grandmaison, Vancouver, 2018
- Catalogue Number
- Dgn.03.13
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Untitled (Young First Nations Child)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactoxd.03.02
- Date
- c. 1940
- Medium
- pastel chalk on paper
- Catalogue Number
- OxD.03.02
- Description
- Pastel portrait of an Indigenous child. The child’s long hair is in braids, and she wears a beaded headband, with triangles of yellow and blue. Her shirt is yellow, with a white collar, and she wears purple beads around her neck.
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- Title
- Untitled (Young First Nations Child)
- Date
- c. 1940
- Medium
- pastel chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- 24 x 31.5 cm
- Description
- Pastel portrait of an Indigenous child. The child’s long hair is in braids, and she wears a beaded headband, with triangles of yellow and blue. Her shirt is yellow, with a white collar, and she wears purple beads around her neck.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- child
- portrait
- Credit
- Gift of Roy Dundas, Executor- Roy B. and Delores M. Dundas Family Trust, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- OxD.03.02
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Untitled (Young First Nations Child)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactoxd.03.03
- Date
- c. 1940
- Medium
- pastel chalk on paper
- Catalogue Number
- OxD.03.03
- Description
- Pastel portrait of a young girl. She has black hair, in two braids, with bangs visible on the left side of her forehead, under her brown cowboy hat. She wears a red scarf with white dots around her neck. The child gazes at the viewer, unsmiling.
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- Title
- Untitled (Young First Nations Child)
- Date
- c. 1940
- Medium
- pastel chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- 24 x 31.5 cm
- Description
- Pastel portrait of a young girl. She has black hair, in two braids, with bangs visible on the left side of her forehead, under her brown cowboy hat. She wears a red scarf with white dots around her neck. The child gazes at the viewer, unsmiling.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- child
- portrait
- Credit
- Gift of Roy Dundas, Executor- Roy B. and Delores M. Dundas Family Trust, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- OxD.03.03
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