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Cowboy at Brewster Ranch

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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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Artist
Stephen Hutchings (1948 – , Canadian)
Date
2012 – 2012
Medium
Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
Catalogue Number
HuS.02.01
Description
moody clouds around a mountain top
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Artist
Stephen Hutchings (1948 – , Canadian)
Title
Mountain Storm
Date
2012 – 2012
Medium
Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
Dimensions
182.88 x 182.88 cm
Description
moody clouds around a mountain top
Subject
Environment
Storm
Mountain
Credit
Gift of Stephen Hutchings, Banff, 2016
Catalogue Number
HuS.02.01
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Date
c. 1940
Material
wool; cotton
Catalogue Number
103.05.0414
Description
A pair of deep green woolen pants with gathered embroidered cuffs. The pants have two flap pockets at the front, a 3-button opening at one side, and a built in belt at the back.
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Title
Ski Pants
Date
c. 1940
Material
wool; cotton
Dimensions
108.0 x 67.0 cm
Description
A pair of deep green woolen pants with gathered embroidered cuffs. The pants have two flap pockets at the front, a 3-button opening at one side, and a built in belt at the back.
Subject
skiing
Canadian
Credit
Gift of Robin Bayley, Victoria, 2023
Catalogue Number
103.05.0414
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The undiscovered country : essays in Canadian intellectual culture

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2013
Author
Angus, Ian H.
Publisher
Edmonton, AB : AU Press
Call Number
05.5 A4t
Author
Angus, Ian H.
Publisher
Edmonton, AB : AU Press
Published Date
2013
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canadian
History
History-Canada
Identity
Abstract
In this sequence of essays, Ian Angus engages with themes of identity, power, and the nation as they emerge in contemporary English Canadian philosophical thought, seeking to prepare the groundwork for a critical theory of neoliberal globalization. The essays are organized into three parts. The opening part offers a nuanced critique of the Hegelian confidence and progressivism that has come to dominate Canadian intellectual life. Through an analysis of the work of several prominent Canadian thinkers, among them Charles Taylor and C.B. Macpherson, Angus suggests that Hegelian frames of reference. - Aurora
Contents
Part I The dominant Hegelianism of Canadian intellectual life. -- 1 Introduction: The Instituting Polemos of English Canadian Culture -- 2 Charles Taylor's Account of Modernity -- 3 James Doull and the Philosophic Task of Our Time -- 4 C.B. Macpherson's Developmental Liberalism -- 5 Athens and Jerusalem? Philosophy and Religion in George Grant's Thought. Part II Is Canada a nation? -- 6 Introduction: National Identity as Solidarity -- 7 Winthrop Pickard Bell on the Idea of a Nation -- 8 Canadian Studies: Retrospect and Prospect -- 9 Gad Horowitz and the Political Culture of English Canada -- 10 Empire, Border, Place: A Critique of Hardt and Negri's Concept of Empire -- 11 The Difference Between Canadian and American Political Cultures Revisited. Part III Locative thought. -- 12 Introduction: Philosophy, Culture, Critique -- 13 Social Movements Versus the Global Neoliberal Regime -- 14 Continuing Dispossession: Clearances as a Literary and Philosophical Theme. APPENDIX 1 Jean-Philippe Warren, "Are Multiple Nations the Solution? An Interview with Ian Angus" -- Appendix 2 Bob Hanke, "Conversation on the University: An Interview with Ian Angus."
ISBN
9781927356326
Accession Number
2024.26
Call Number
05.5 A4t
Collection
Archives Library
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