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Balinese Boy

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.11

Description: A young boy is sitting to the right of the picture, facing left. He is clothed, white long sleeved shirt, kakhi pants and a scarf tied around his head. Light yellow in background.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Balinese Boy

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.2 x 34.8 cm

Description: A young boy is sitting to the right of the picture, facing left. He is clothed, white long sleeved shirt, kakhi pants and a scarf tied around his head. Light yellow in background.

Subject: portrait; boy; figure; child; Bali

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.11

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Balinese Girl

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.12

Description: A young Balinese girl is squatting on the ground, facing to the right of the picture. She has a loosly tied scarf on her head, light blue kimono and brown pants.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Balinese Girl

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 34.5 cm

Description: A young Balinese girl is squatting on the ground, facing to the right of the picture. She has a loosly tied scarf on her head, light blue kimono and brown pants.

Subject: portrait; girl; child

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.12

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Balinese Man

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.393

Description: A portrait of a man. He is to the left of centre. He is wearing a brown scarf tied on his head and has a long black mustache. The painting is unfinished.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Balinese Man

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.2 x 35.0 cm

Description: A portrait of a man. He is to the left of centre. He is wearing a brown scarf tied on his head and has a long black mustache. The painting is unfinished.

Subject: portrait; male; Pacific

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.393

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Bill Neish

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

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.10

Description: A portrait of a man, facing in three quarter profile to the left. He wears a cowboy hat and a knotted scarf around his neck. Inscribed at the bottom left “Bill Nish Warden”, signed “Glyde” at bottom right. On back “Bow Lake, 1936 with Reg Harvey.”

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

Title: Bill Neish

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Description: A portrait of a man, facing in three quarter profile to the left. He wears a cowboy hat and a knotted scarf around his neck. Inscribed at the bottom left “Bill Nish Warden”, signed “Glyde” at bottom right. On back “Bow Lake, 1936 with Reg Harvey.”

Subject: Bill Neish; portrait; warden

Credit: Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.10

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Chief Dan Wildman

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.075

Description: Dan Wildman is facing toward the left side of the image and takes up most of the right side of the image. The left half of the painting is a grey-green colour. Dan Wildman is wearing traditional Stoney clothing and head dress. He wears a bear tooth necklace and extensive beadwork is visible on h…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Chief Dan Wildman

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.0 x 62.3 cm

Description: Dan Wildman is facing toward the left side of the image and takes up most of the right side of the image. The left half of the painting is a grey-green colour. Dan Wildman is wearing traditional Stoney clothing and head dress. He wears a bear tooth necklace and extensive beadwork is visible on his shirt. His eyes appear as if they are slightly closed.

Subject: portrait; male; Stoney; Dan Wildman

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.075

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Chief David Bearspaw

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.120

Description: Colour: white, brown, red, orange. A man looks to the right, wearing a feather headress which runs off the picture at the upper left. While ermine streamers come down either side of his face. He wears a red neckerchief. There is blue, orange and red trim on the headress.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Chief David Bearspaw

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: white, brown, red, orange. A man looks to the right, wearing a feather headress which runs off the picture at the upper left. While ermine streamers come down either side of his face. He wears a red neckerchief. There is blue, orange and red trim on the headress.

Subject: portrait; male; Chief David Bearspaw

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.120

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Chief David Bearspaw

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1931 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.058

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Chief David Bearspaw

Date: 1931 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 64.0 x 53.5 cm

Subject: portrait; male

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.058

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Elizabeth Von Rummel

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Artist: Percival James Edgar (1888 – 1946, American)

Date: 1939

Medium: reproduction on drawing

Catalogue Number: EdP.04.01

Description: Baroness Elizabeth von Rummel Waldau - Marvel Lake Lookout - 1939 - July signed P. J. Edgar. Portrait of a woman, Elizabeth Rummel, she has a kerchief tied around her head, a cigaret in her mouth, facing to the left, mountains in the background.

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Artist: Percival James Edgar (1888 – 1946, American)

Title: Elizabeth Von Rummel

Date: 1939

Medium: reproduction on drawing

Dimensions: 30.1 x 20.1 cm

Description: Baroness Elizabeth von Rummel Waldau - Marvel Lake Lookout - 1939 - July signed P. J. Edgar. Portrait of a woman, Elizabeth Rummel, she has a kerchief tied around her head, a cigaret in her mouth, facing to the left, mountains in the background.

Subject: portrait; female; Elizabeth Rummel

Credit: Gift of Sydney Vallance, 1970

Catalogue Number: EdP.04.01

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George McLean

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.024

Description: Colour: blue, brown, red. The head and shoulders on a man facing left. He has short hair and wears a hat. There is a red scarf around his neck. The background is blue.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: George McLean

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.5 x 51 cm

Description: Colour: blue, brown, red. The head and shoulders on a man facing left. He has short hair and wears a hat. There is a red scarf around his neck. The background is blue.

Subject: portrait; male; George McLean; Walking Buffalo; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.024

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Heavy Shield- “To-so-ko-ya-wo-tan” Blackfoot Chief

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Artist: George Bertrand Mitchell (1872 – 1966, American)

Date: 1938 – 1938

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: MiG.03.03

Description: A first nations male sits with his back against the left edge of the image with his arms resting on his thighs. In his hands he holds a pipe. This man is wearing a head band with a feather at the back. He is sitting in a chair, and wears beaded cuffs and has a small horse around his neck with ot…

Artist: George Bertrand Mitchell (1872 – 1966, American)

Title: Heavy Shield- “To-so-ko-ya-wo-tan” Blackfoot Chief

Date: 1938 – 1938

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 61.0 x 41.0 cm

Description: A first nations male sits with his back against the left edge of the image with his arms resting on his thighs. In his hands he holds a pipe. This man is wearing a head band with a feather at the back. He is sitting in a chair, and wears beaded cuffs and has a small horse around his neck with other neck adornment. The image is black and white.

Subject: portrait; male; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of C. Gardner Lane Jr., Scarborough, USA, 1996

Catalogue Number: MiG.03.03

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His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent

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

Date: c. 1935

Medium: etching on paper

Catalogue Number: PeR.04.04

Description: A full face, head and shoulder portrait of The Duke of Kent. He is looking to his left. He is wearing a military suit.

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

Title: His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent

Date: c. 1935

Medium: etching on paper

Dimensions: 25.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: A full face, head and shoulder portrait of The Duke of Kent. He is looking to his left. He is wearing a military suit.

Subject: portrait; male

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: PeR.04.04

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Horace Shouting After Completing 4 Points Piercing Sun Dance

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Artist: George Webber

Date: 2000 – 2000

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.10

Description: Horace shouting after completing his first sun dance, Blood Reserve, Alberta.

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Artist: George Webber

Title: Horace Shouting After Completing 4 Points Piercing Sun Dance

Date: 2000 – 2000

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 11” x 14” cm

Description: Horace shouting after completing his first sun dance, Blood Reserve, Alberta.

Subject: documentary photography; portrait; First Nations; Indigenous; sun dance

Credit: Gift of George Webber, Calgary, 2014

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.10

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Horace Shouting With His Photograph (From 2000) in His Living Room

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Artist: George Webber

Date: 2005 – 2006

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.11

Description: Horace in his living room shouting with his photograph that was taken in 2000 after completing his Sun Dance, The Blood Reserve, Alberta.

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Artist: George Webber

Title: Horace Shouting With His Photograph (From 2000) in His Living Room

Date: 2005 – 2006

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 11” x 14” cm

Description: Horace in his living room shouting with his photograph that was taken in 2000 after completing his Sun Dance, The Blood Reserve, Alberta.

Subject: documentary photography; Indigenous; portrait; sun dance

Credit: Gift of George Webber, Calgary, 2014

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.11

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Indian Chief

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.059

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Indian Chief

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 64.0 x 53.7 cm

Subject: portrait; male; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.059

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Jim Brewster of Banff

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.06

Description: A realistic rendering of a head and shoulder portrait of Jim Brewster; a three-quarter view; he has on a light brown hat, blue jacket, white shirt, red tie; streaks of colour in background.

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Title: Jim Brewster of Banff

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 76.0 x 56.0 cm

Description: A realistic rendering of a head and shoulder portrait of Jim Brewster; a three-quarter view; he has on a light brown hat, blue jacket, white shirt, red tie; streaks of colour in background.

Subject: portrait; male; portrait: Jim Brewster

Credit: Gift of Lubov de Grandmaison, 1990

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.06

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Job Stevens, Stoney, Morley

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.129

Description: Colour: grey, black, brown, bits of orange, white. The left profile of a man.His black hair is short on top and at the back two braids come down over his white garment which is trimmed with orange and green. There seems to be a dark piece of cloth around his neck. The background is dark grey.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Job Stevens, Stoney, Morley

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35.4 x 27.8 cm

Description: Colour: grey, black, brown, bits of orange, white. The left profile of a man.His black hair is short on top and at the back two braids come down over his white garment which is trimmed with orange and green. There seems to be a dark piece of cloth around his neck. The background is dark grey.

Subject: portrait; male; Stoney; Job Stevens

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.129

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John Brewster

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Date: c. 1940

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.05

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of John Brewster as an elderly man. The head is drawn in good detail, full faced, shirt and tie evident, shoulders sketched in lightly. The face is round, hair over ears, otherwise bald, brown eyes, mustache, and amicable look.

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Title: John Brewster

Date: c. 1940

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 35; 50.4 x 34.2; 38 cm

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of John Brewster as an elderly man. The head is drawn in good detail, full faced, shirt and tie evident, shoulders sketched in lightly. The face is round, hair over ears, otherwise bald, brown eyes, mustache, and amicable look.