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Artist: Peter or Catharine Whyte

Date: 1926

Medium: conté on conte paper

Catalogue Number: Wy?.03.063

Description: A beautifully rendered drawing of a standing male figure model. “March 1st 1926” written in TRC.

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Artist: Peter or Catharine Whyte

Title: Untitled

Date: 1926

Medium: conté on conte paper

Dimensions: 63.5 x 48.0 cm

Description: A beautifully rendered drawing of a standing male figure model. “March 1st 1926” written in TRC.

Subject: figure; male

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

Catalogue Number: Wy?.03.063

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928

Medium: conté on brown paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.016

Description: A well rendered drawing of a standing male life model with hands behind head. His bent arm and elbow conceals his face, his back is to the viewer and he is lunging forward but away from the viewer with his left foot. He has a flexed right leg. He is turned 3/4 away from viewer.There are various …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1928

Medium: conté on brown paper

Dimensions: 65.5 x 49.5 cm

Description: A well rendered drawing of a standing male life model with hands behind head. His bent arm and elbow conceals his face, his back is to the viewer and he is lunging forward but away from the viewer with his left foot. He has a flexed right leg. He is turned 3/4 away from viewer.There are various scribble and doodles around edges.

Subject: figure; male; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.016

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Sealskin Hunter and Bear

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Artist: Unknown

Date: prior to 1962

Medium: fur; seal; grass; skin; wood

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.18

Description: A male figure wearing a parka is standing over a polar bear that he has shot. The figure is holding a wood rifle in his left hand. The parka and polar bear are made from seal fur. The polar bear is a beige color and the man's parka is a medium brown color. Both the man and the bear are placed on a …

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Sealskin Hunter and Bear

Date: prior to 1962

Medium: fur; seal; grass; skin; wood

Dimensions: 20.5 cm

Description: A male figure wearing a parka is standing over a polar bear that he has shot. The figure is holding a wood rifle in his left hand. The parka and polar bear are made from seal fur. The polar bear is a beige color and the man's parka is a medium brown color. Both the man and the bear are placed on a woven grass circle. The man has painted black features and a skin fringe hanging from the edges of his parka. The polar bear has painted features and an open mouth.

Subject: figure; male; animal; polar bear; activity; hunting

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.18

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Untitled

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Artist: Sarah Kokkinerk

Date: prior to 1962

Medium: seal skin

Catalogue Number: KoS.08.01

Description: Pieced and stitched seal skin and an all over design. The wall hanging gets wider at the center and then gets narrow as it comes back and meets the side edges again creating a bow shape at the top and bottom. Through the center of the wall hanging the seal skin is a darker colour then the top and b…

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Artist: Sarah Kokkinerk

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1962

Medium: seal skin

Dimensions: 83.5 x 133.0 cm

Description: Pieced and stitched seal skin and an all over design. The wall hanging gets wider at the center and then gets narrow as it comes back and meets the side edges again creating a bow shape at the top and bottom. Through the center of the wall hanging the seal skin is a darker colour then the top and bottom edge. Each shape in this work has been cut from a piece of seal skin and pieced into another of a different colour to create the images. In the center area on the left you can see a male figure holding what could be a fish in front of an animal that may be a bear or seal. Behind this figure are three dogs looking left. On the right side there is a man in a boat and another boat upside down. Also in the center there is another man in a boat, another standing, two igloos and a dog. In the lighter bottom arched area there is a bird on the left, in the center there is a male figure, a bear and another seal. The top area includes from the right, upside down a man, a walrus, a polar bear eating and two seals.The border is 3.5 cm wide.

Subject: animal; seal;dog; bear; bird; figure; male; activity; hunting; landscape; Canadian; transportation; ice boat

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: KoS.08.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter or Catharine Whyte

Date: 1930 – 1966

Medium: conté on paper

Catalogue Number: Wy?.03.131

Description: A detailed anatomy drawing of a male figure from the neck down found inside a folded portfolio. The drawing is focusing structure of the muscles in the body. The model has their left hand raised above his head. Below the work is says “School of Leonardo”. Beside the drawing to the left there is two…

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Artist: Peter or Catharine Whyte

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930 – 1966

Medium: conté on paper

Dimensions: 58.0 x 76.5 cm

Description: A detailed anatomy drawing of a male figure from the neck down found inside a folded portfolio. The drawing is focusing structure of the muscles in the body. The model has their left hand raised above his head. Below the work is says “School of Leonardo”. Beside the drawing to the left there is two lines of pencil running down the height of the portfolio, near one of the folds. On the left fold there is a Christmas tag that has two dogs, a woman in a blue dress, with a snowy scene behind them. On the tag it reads “From Gwen with love To Catharine + Pete I’m appallingly late! But we have had a fair amount of illness here + that does delay things!”On the verso of drawing it says “School of Leonardo L3.10x 132.58”, and in the BRC “8.C8”