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Blood Indian Chief

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Artist: Reinhold H. Palenske (1884 – 1955, American)

Date: 1927

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: PeR.03.01

Description: General colour: white, black, orange. The man's white fur hat fills upper third of the drawing. His eyes look out. He wears an orange tie. There is some purple colour on his left lapel. The title is in orange in the lower left corner. In the lower right corner, the words are in black.

Artist: Reinhold H. Palenske (1884 – 1955, American)

Title: Blood Indian Chief

Date: 1927

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Dimensions: 29.2 x 45.1 cm

Description: General colour: white, black, orange. The man's white fur hat fills upper third of the drawing. His eyes look out. He wears an orange tie. There is some purple colour on his left lapel. The title is in orange in the lower left corner. In the lower right corner, the words are in black.

Subject: portrait; male

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

Catalogue Number: PeR.03.01

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Untitled [Trophy]

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

Date: prior to 1940

Medium: Bronze

Catalogue Number: BeC.06.17

Description: This bronze cast trophy features a downhill skier. It is a relief sculpture with the skier and skies emerging out of a 2 inch slab of bronze which is shaped like a mountain on the top. The portion the skier is skiing on comes out approx. 4 inches from the bronze slab, and angles down at a 45 degr…

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

Title: Untitled [Trophy]

Date: prior to 1940

Medium: Bronze

Dimensions: 58.0 x 27.0 cm

Description: This bronze cast trophy features a downhill skier. It is a relief sculpture with the skier and skies emerging out of a 2 inch slab of bronze which is shaped like a mountain on the top. The portion the skier is skiing on comes out approx. 4 inches from the bronze slab, and angles down at a 45 degree angle mimiking a mountain ski trail.The skier is facing left, bent at the knees and waist, with poles up and back. He is wearing a hat and gazes strait ahead. This sits on a black wooden base with a plaque in centre and 12 individual name plaques.

Subject: Activity; skiing; figure; male

Credit: Gift of Clifford J. White, Victoria, 1999

Catalogue Number: BeC.06.17

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Kabuki Theatre Poster

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Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Date: 1879 – 1879

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: KoT.04.02 a-c

Description: This triptych is a Kabuki Theater Poster. The first panel features two actors dressed as women. Both are holding fans and standing in front of a red background. The actor on the left is taunting the actor in the second panel who has blue hair and is wearing a white Kimono while holding a string of…

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Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Title: Kabuki Theatre Poster

Date: 1879 – 1879

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 36.0 x 73.5 cm

Description: This triptych is a Kabuki Theater Poster. The first panel features two actors dressed as women. Both are holding fans and standing in front of a red background. The actor on the left is taunting the actor in the second panel who has blue hair and is wearing a white Kimono while holding a string of beads. The background in the second panel is a deep blue with a magnolia tree and flowers and a parrot in the trc. The third panel features a third actor in a green kimono. He is facing the actor in the second panel and appears to be angry. He is holding a rope with both hands and has 2 swords in his belt. He is standing in front of a red background and a portion of the background from the second panel.

Subject: figures; male; Kabuki; activity; acting

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: KoT.04.02 a-c

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Untitled [Five Men taking a Break]

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: c. 1930

Medium: gouache; conté on card

Catalogue Number: GyH.07.01

Description: Five men are sitting in a group on logs and stumps. All are dressed as if they might be cowboys. Three men on the right appear to be talking with one another and a second group of two men on the left appear to be having a second conversation. In the foreground between the two small groups are so…

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [Five Men taking a Break]

Date: c. 1930

Medium: gouache; conté on card

Dimensions: 28 x 38 cm

Description: Five men are sitting in a group on logs and stumps. All are dressed as if they might be cowboys. Three men on the right appear to be talking with one another and a second group of two men on the left appear to be having a second conversation. In the foreground between the two small groups are some cooking utensils, frying pans and tin cans. A creek on the left edge of the painting flows down between the men. Two tree trunks are on either side of the painting. A man on the left is leaning on one of them. In the background is a log cabin and a fence that runs in front of it.