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Untitled [Native Man]

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Date: 1949

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.01

Description: A portrait of an Indigenous man. His hair is grey and worn in two braids. He is wearing several strings of beads around his neck. His shirt or tunic is purple. A purple and orange checked blanket is wrapped around his shoulders. It is visible in both the bottom left corner and the bottom right…

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [Native Man]

Date: 1949

Medium: pastel on paper

Description: A portrait of an Indigenous man. His hair is grey and worn in two braids. He is wearing several strings of beads around his neck. His shirt or tunic is purple. A purple and orange checked blanket is wrapped around his shoulders. It is visible in both the bottom left corner and the bottom right corner. Behind his shoulder on the left, a tipi is visible. Smoke is coming out of the top of it. Brown, craggy mountains are visible across the horizon. The sky moves up from yellow to green to blue. Clouds at the top of the image are orange.

Subject: portrait; male; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Doris Gammon, Banff, 2000

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.01

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Untitled (First Nations child)

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.04

Description: A portrait of a young Indigenous girl. It shows head and neck only, black hair in a braids; one braid hanging down the front on viewer’s right. She has dark skin, very pink cheeks and lips and is wearing a pink and blue top. Signed, between the end of the braid and mat, viewer’s right, printed with…

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Untitled (First Nations child)

Date: 1970

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 21.0 x 14.2 cm

Description: A portrait of a young Indigenous girl. It shows head and neck only, black hair in a braids; one braid hanging down the front on viewer’s right. She has dark skin, very pink cheeks and lips and is wearing a pink and blue top. Signed, between the end of the braid and mat, viewer’s right, printed with brown pastel “Christoffersen”.

Subject: portrait; child; girl; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Margaret Reid (Estate), 2008

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.04

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Untitled (First Nations child)

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.05

Description: A pastel portrait from chest upwards, of a very young Indigenous boy. He has black hair in short braids tied with red fabric. He is wearing what could be a buckskin jacket/shirt and has two beaded necklaces around his neck: a red and green necklace and a diamond-shaped necklace connected by purple …

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Untitled (First Nations child)

Date: 1970

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 24.0 x 20.0 cm

Description: A pastel portrait from chest upwards, of a very young Indigenous boy. He has black hair in short braids tied with red fabric. He is wearing what could be a buckskin jacket/shirt and has two beaded necklaces around his neck: a red and green necklace and a diamond-shaped necklace connected by purple and red beads. Signed, between the end of the diamond-shaped necklace and mat, viewer’s right, printed with black pastel “Christoffersen”.

Subject: portrait; child; boy; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Margaret Reid (Estate), 2008

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.05

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Untitled (Young First Nations Child)

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Artist: Dorothy Marie Oxborough (1922 – 2014, Canadian)

Date: c. 1940

Medium: pastel chalk on paper

Catalogue Number: OxD.03.02

Description: Pastel portrait of an Indigenous child. The child’s long hair is in braids, and she wears a beaded headband, with triangles of yellow and blue. Her shirt is yellow, with a white collar, and she wears purple beads around her neck.

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Artist: Dorothy Marie Oxborough (1922 – 2014, Canadian)

Title: Untitled (Young First Nations Child)

Date: c. 1940

Medium: pastel chalk on paper

Dimensions: 24 x 31.5 cm

Description: Pastel portrait of an Indigenous child. The child’s long hair is in braids, and she wears a beaded headband, with triangles of yellow and blue. Her shirt is yellow, with a white collar, and she wears purple beads around her neck.

Subject: Indigenous; child; portrait

Credit: Gift of Roy Dundas, Executor- Roy B. and Delores M. Dundas Family Trust, Banff, 2006

Catalogue Number: OxD.03.02

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Untitled (Young First Nations Child)

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactoxd.03.03

Artist: Dorothy Marie Oxborough (1922 – 2014, Canadian)

Date: c. 1940

Medium: pastel chalk on paper

Catalogue Number: OxD.03.03

Description: Pastel portrait of a young girl. She has black hair, in two braids, with bangs visible on the left side of her forehead, under her brown cowboy hat. She wears a red scarf with white dots around her neck. The child gazes at the viewer, unsmiling.

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Artist: Dorothy Marie Oxborough (1922 – 2014, Canadian)

Title: Untitled (Young First Nations Child)

Date: c. 1940

Medium: pastel chalk on paper

Dimensions: 24 x 31.5 cm

Description: Pastel portrait of a young girl. She has black hair, in two braids, with bangs visible on the left side of her forehead, under her brown cowboy hat. She wears a red scarf with white dots around her neck. The child gazes at the viewer, unsmiling.