Narrow Results By
Answering The Challenge
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttic.02.07
- Date
- 1996
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.07
- Description
- At the bl a male elk is challenging another male elk. The second elk is higher up on the side of a mountain in a grass area. Further off in the distance six female elk watch. The grass that the elk are standing on is a yellow green color and the rock in the background behind the elk is a red brown…
1 image
- Title
- Answering The Challenge
- Date
- 1996
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 122.0 x 182.8 cm
- Description
- At the bl a male elk is challenging another male elk. The second elk is higher up on the side of a mountain in a grass area. Further off in the distance six female elk watch. The grass that the elk are standing on is a yellow green color and the rock in the background behind the elk is a red brown hue. The two male elk are facing each other and both have a full set of horns. The mountains in the far distance are a grey blue color.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- animal
- elk
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.07
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Bald Eagles on Watch
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttic.02.09
- Date
- 1979
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.09
- Description
- On the left side of the painting an eagle sits on the top of a dead tree facing the right side of the image. Behind the brown, yellow and white bird there are mountains and trees. The mountains in the far distance have some snow on the peaks but the closer ones are covered with green trees. In the…
- Title
- Bald Eagles on Watch
- Date
- 1979
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 23.0 x 30.6 cm
- Description
- On the left side of the painting an eagle sits on the top of a dead tree facing the right side of the image. Behind the brown, yellow and white bird there are mountains and trees. The mountains in the far distance have some snow on the peaks but the closer ones are covered with green trees. In the foreground a blue body of water is surrounded with a brilliant green weed or grass. From the cl to the cr a line of trees cross the bottom of the image. Some of the trees and grass between the background mountains and the foreground water are a yellow hue.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- animal
- Bald Eagle
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.09
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Bighorn Rams - Life Sketches
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttic.01.01
- Date
- 1979
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.01.01
- Description
- This oil sketch is a composition of several different full and half sketches of Bighorn Sheep. The top left corner has a full painted ram resting on the ground. As you move to the right of the image the rams become more like sketches or line drawings with the exception of one that is fully painted …
- Title
- Bighorn Rams - Life Sketches
- Date
- 1979
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 40.7 x 51.0 cm
- Description
- This oil sketch is a composition of several different full and half sketches of Bighorn Sheep. The top left corner has a full painted ram resting on the ground. As you move to the right of the image the rams become more like sketches or line drawings with the exception of one that is fully painted in the upper right corner. The bottom half of the image space has many partial and unfinished drawings of the Bighorn Sheep.
- Subject
- animal
- Bighorn Sheep
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.01.01
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Bighorn Rams Feeding
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttic.02.10
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.10
- Description
- In a patch of yellow and brown trees and grass in the foreground are two bighorn sheep eating, they are located on the left side of the painting. Behind the yellow trees is a mid section of green trees and behind that a small area of trees in the distance that are a blue colour. Behind all the tree…
- Title
- Bighorn Rams Feeding
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 35.6 cm
- Description
- In a patch of yellow and brown trees and grass in the foreground are two bighorn sheep eating, they are located on the left side of the painting. Behind the yellow trees is a mid section of green trees and behind that a small area of trees in the distance that are a blue colour. Behind all the trees is a mountain blue in colour with some snow on its peaks. The sky above is blue with white clouds.
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.10
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Buffalo preliminary sketches
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttic.03.02
- Date
- prior to 1996
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.03.02
- Description
- Drawn lightly are two bison running toward each other ready to bang heads. Under foot you can see the suggestion of ground represented by a few lines. One bison is running from the upper left corner and the other is running from the center right.
- Title
- Buffalo preliminary sketches
- Date
- prior to 1996
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.4 x 20.4 cm
- Description
- Drawn lightly are two bison running toward each other ready to bang heads. Under foot you can see the suggestion of ground represented by a few lines. One bison is running from the upper left corner and the other is running from the center right.
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.03.02
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Building The Dam - Busy Beavers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttic.02.12
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.12
- Description
- A body of water starts from the cl and makes its way down into the foreground and ends up at the blc and the brc. A piece of land and rocks jet out between the blc and the brc. Standing on this piece of land a beaver is carring a piece of wood or tree section and is heading towards the dam that he …
- Title
- Building The Dam - Busy Beavers
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 30.6 x 40.7 cm
- Description
- A body of water starts from the cl and makes its way down into the foreground and ends up at the blc and the brc. A piece of land and rocks jet out between the blc and the brc. Standing on this piece of land a beaver is carring a piece of wood or tree section and is heading towards the dam that he is building. All along the left side of the water there are green and orange trees. The sky above the trees is a medium blue colour. On the other side of the dam two other beavers are also working on the dam.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- animal
- beaver
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.12
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Coming Together
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttic.02.13
- Date
- 1990
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.13
- Description
- A group of bison gather in a wooded area. The woods seem very thick therefore the tone is very dark. The wooded area is a brown, purple colour and the open area in the foreground is a light brown and yellow colour. Out in the foreground a bison is standing with his back facing the left edge of the …
- Title
- Coming Together
- Date
- 1990
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 20.4 x 25.4 cm
- Description
- A group of bison gather in a wooded area. The woods seem very thick therefore the tone is very dark. The wooded area is a brown, purple colour and the open area in the foreground is a light brown and yellow colour. Out in the foreground a bison is standing with his back facing the left edge of the image and appears to be walking toward the others in the woods.
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.13
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.02
- Description
- General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to e…
1 image
- Title
- The Contest
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.1 x 37.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to each side of the central image.Au verso: “THE CONTEST” tlhc “436” encircled, rhtc “K.6” (remaining number hidden by archival tape)brhc “12” encircled, below “30” encircled
- Credit
- Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.02
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Cutting Out The Stragglers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttic.02.05
- Date
- prior to 1996
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.05
- Description
- Three wolves have singled out one bison from a herd and are making an attack. The rest of the herd are running from the right side of the image to the left. The ground is covered in snow and blue in colour. The wolves have a yellow colour intergrated with brown in their fur. In the distance are tre…
1 image
- Title
- Cutting Out The Stragglers
- Date
- prior to 1996
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60.9 x 121.9 cm
- Description
- Three wolves have singled out one bison from a herd and are making an attack. The rest of the herd are running from the right side of the image to the left. The ground is covered in snow and blue in colour. The wolves have a yellow colour intergrated with brown in their fur. In the distance are trees, bison and a few more wolves.
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.05
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Drawn From Life - Bighorn Sheep
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttic.02.14
- Date
- prior to 1995
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.14
- Description
- Standing on the right side of the painting is a bighorn sheep, looking toward the cc of the image. On the other side of the image a second bighorn sheep is also standing but looking to the cl with his back facing the left edge. Both sheep are a brown colour with full round horns. The background is …
- Title
- Drawn From Life - Bighorn Sheep
- Date
- prior to 1995
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 35.6 cm
- Description
- Standing on the right side of the painting is a bighorn sheep, looking toward the cc of the image. On the other side of the image a second bighorn sheep is also standing but looking to the cl with his back facing the left edge. Both sheep are a brown colour with full round horns. The background is a blue grey colour with lighter brown patches under the feet of both animals.
- Subject
- animal
- bighorn sheep
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.14
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1990
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- HdD.02.01
- Description
- In the center of the painting there is a white outline of a nude male figure. The face down figure has one arm outstreached in front and the other outstreached to the side. Off set to the lower left a bit, is the same male again but this time with his body painted in black, white and purple. Also…
- Title
- Emergence
- Date
- 1990
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 160.0 x 160.0 cm
- Description
- In the center of the painting there is a white outline of a nude male figure. The face down figure has one arm outstreached in front and the other outstreached to the side. Off set to the lower left a bit, is the same male again but this time with his body painted in black, white and purple. Also in the same area there is a wolf leaning down to get a drink of water and directly beneath that wolf is his reflection that looks like another wolf. Both wolves are purple with white highlights. At the top left corner there is a ring of fire, orange and red in colour. The background behind the above mentioned is black and the paint has been applied very thick (almost impasto in some places). The frame for the canvas is made out of natural wood poles and the ends stick out at each corner and cross over each other.
- Subject
- figure
- male
- animal
- wolf
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Dan Hudson, Canmore, 1993
- Catalogue Number
- HdD.02.01
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.08
- Description
- Colours blue, black, orange, yellow, gold; a stylized head in left centre of picture; long blue and gold earrings; a continuous line runs to centre left of picture, all very stylized, could be a lance with feathers hanging from it; the design at his neck resembles a bird's head; the background is l…
1 image
- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- Indian Head
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- Colours blue, black, orange, yellow, gold; a stylized head in left centre of picture; long blue and gold earrings; a continuous line runs to centre left of picture, all very stylized, could be a lance with feathers hanging from it; the design at his neck resembles a bird's head; the background is left white.
- Subject
- mythological
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.08
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.07
- Description
- Colours gold, black, orange, yellow, blue, green; a stylized bird with a bear inside; object in centre of picture rest of background left white.
1 image
- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- Indian Legend
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- Colours gold, black, orange, yellow, blue, green; a stylized bird with a bear inside; object in centre of picture rest of background left white.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.07
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.06
- Description
- A stylized open painting, colours yellow, orange, gold and black; symbols non-representational; background unpainted - left white.
1 image
- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- Indian Legend
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- A stylized open painting, colours yellow, orange, gold and black; symbols non-representational; background unpainted - left white.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.06
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.05
- Description
- Colours yellow, orange, gold and black stylized animals and birds; open drawing background left white.
1 image
- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- Indian Legend
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 41.0 cm
- Description
- Colours yellow, orange, gold and black stylized animals and birds; open drawing background left white.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.05
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
King of the Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactenm.12.01
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil; acrylic on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.01
- Description
- The center of the painting is a bear turned so it is looking to the left and out of the image frame. Behind the bear is a mountain range with some snow and ice throughout. In the bottom left corner there is a skull from a bighorn sheep. The lower right hand corner has bear foot prints in black with…
1 image
- Title
- King of the Rockies
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil; acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 213.3 x 152.4 cm
- Description
- The center of the painting is a bear turned so it is looking to the left and out of the image frame. Behind the bear is a mountain range with some snow and ice throughout. In the bottom left corner there is a skull from a bighorn sheep. The lower right hand corner has bear foot prints in black with red around them. The bear has a brown colour fur and the ground that it is standing on is blue green. The sky is also a green colour while the mountains have green shadows and white highlights. Located directly behind the bear are two black lines that crisscross as they get higher to the top of the painting.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- animal
- bear
- Credit
- Gift of Maureen Enns, Cochrane, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.01
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Leaving for the Hunt
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttic.02.17
- Date
- 1995
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.17
- Description
- On the side of a mountain a cougar leaves her cubs to go off hunting. In the distance on the left side of the image you can see the baby cubs high up in the mountain in an opening of rock. The mother cougar has come down from the cubs and is located in the bottom left corner facing and heading towa…
1 image
- Title
- Leaving for the Hunt
- Date
- 1995
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 122.0 x 182.8 cm
- Description
- On the side of a mountain a cougar leaves her cubs to go off hunting. In the distance on the left side of the image you can see the baby cubs high up in the mountain in an opening of rock. The mother cougar has come down from the cubs and is located in the bottom left corner facing and heading toward the brc. In the brc what appears to be two bighorn sheep are feeding. Between the cougar and the other animals a large gorge between the two sections of the mountain exists. Around the cougar and the other animals light green grass is growing. In the background are more mountains blue in colour. The sky above is a light blue with some white clouds.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- animal
- cougar
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.17
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.01
- Description
- General colour: red, yellow, blue, black on white - equal portions. A single figure showing a force looking right, above that a fish looking left and above that a bird, wings spread, and legs coming down, looking right. Symbolic meanings - mother and child on her back, fish with eggs and an eagle -…
1 image
- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- LIfe Cycle
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Dimensions
- 152 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: red, yellow, blue, black on white - equal portions. A single figure showing a force looking right, above that a fish looking left and above that a bird, wings spread, and legs coming down, looking right. Symbolic meanings - mother and child on her back, fish with eggs and an eagle - all powerful symbols.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.01
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.02
- Description
- General colour: black on white. A whale going to the left. A long feather shape comes down from behind the tail.
1 image
- Title
- Mahuk
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: black on white. A whale going to the left. A long feather shape comes down from behind the tail.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Unknown, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.02
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
The Man Who Outran the Deer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsts.05.03
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.03
- Description
- Colour: brown and white on yellow. Two small brown deer leap from viewer’s right two-thirds the way up. One antlered deer halts at the left side half way up. A running man wearing a loin cloth fills the centre space. His black hair with a feather in it flies out to the right.Au verso rhtc “111” en…
1 image
- Title
- The Man Who Outran the Deer
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: brown and white on yellow. Two small brown deer leap from viewer’s right two-thirds the way up. One antlered deer halts at the left side half way up. A running man wearing a loin cloth fills the centre space. His black hair with a feather in it flies out to the right.Au verso rhtc “111” encircled
- Subject
- figure, male
- animal, deer
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.03
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.