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The Pack Horse

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbec.06.02

Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: Medusa cement [self-setting]

Catalogue Number: BeC.06.02

Description: Colour: white. This is a bas-relief of a pack horse facing right standing in grass.Modelled ca. 1931 for Tex Woods, a packer and guide in Banff, for gable on house on Spray Avenue. Taken off house in 1977 by Ray Haimila. He had permission to cast 14 bronzes plus 1 Aluminum on the condition that he …

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: The Pack Horse

Date: 1931

Medium: Medusa cement [self-setting]

Dimensions: 36.0 x 46.0 cm

Description: Colour: white. This is a bas-relief of a pack horse facing right standing in grass.Modelled ca. 1931 for Tex Woods, a packer and guide in Banff, for gable on house on Spray Avenue. Taken off house in 1977 by Ray Haimila. He had permission to cast 14 bronzes plus 1 Aluminum on the condition that he present the master cast to the Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation. He presented 1 bronze to the Senior Citizen’s Home in Canmore; sold the others.

Subject: animal; horse

Credit: Gift of Raymond Haimila, Canmore, 1985

Catalogue Number: BeC.06.02

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Untitled [Wood Sculpture]

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactunk.16.05

Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Medium: wood, oil paint

Catalogue Number: UnK.16.05

Description: Flat wood, bark on each side. At the top on the carved side of the wood is the head of an Indigenous man. Below is a drum. Behind are two crossed spears. Surrounding the drum and spears are various tools.

Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled [Wood Sculpture]

Date: n.d.

Medium: wood, oil paint

Dimensions: 46.8 x 12.0 cm

Description: Flat wood, bark on each side. At the top on the carved side of the wood is the head of an Indigenous man. Below is a drum. Behind are two crossed spears. Surrounding the drum and spears are various tools.

Subject: culture; Indigenous; tools

Credit: Gift of Marnie Huckvale, Delta, 2003

Catalogue Number: UnK.16.05

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Iris Relief

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Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Catalogue Number: UnK.16.04

Description: Purple irises with green sagittal leaves, blue water all painted onto relief, contoured, carved surface which is a silhouette contained by unpainted, rectangular frame; both faces of relief are carved and painted. Ex collection Edith Morse Robb; probably acquired originally by CRW's grandfather, E.…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Iris Relief

Date: n.d.

Dimensions: 53.0 x 4.3 x 136.0 cm

Description: Purple irises with green sagittal leaves, blue water all painted onto relief, contoured, carved surface which is a silhouette contained by unpainted, rectangular frame; both faces of relief are carved and painted. Ex collection Edith Morse Robb; probably acquired originally by CRW's grandfather, E.S. Morse.