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Cowboy at Brewster Ranch

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Artist
Doris Cormie
Date
1933
Medium
drawing on paper
Catalogue Number
CmD.03.01
Description
A pastel chalk drawing on brown paper. The drawing is a portrait of a young cowboy seated. The boy is wearing a blue shirt with a white scarf and tan chaps. He is sitting on a push foot stool that has a salmon-coloured throw over it. In the background behind the boy is a black and white cowhide han…
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Artist
Doris Cormie
Title
Cowboy at Brewster Ranch
Date
1933
Medium
drawing on paper
Dimensions
38.5 x 28.0 cm
Description
A pastel chalk drawing on brown paper. The drawing is a portrait of a young cowboy seated. The boy is wearing a blue shirt with a white scarf and tan chaps. He is sitting on a push foot stool that has a salmon-coloured throw over it. In the background behind the boy is a black and white cowhide hanging on the wall. There is a black chalk line border, 33 x 23 cm, around the drawing. the artist signature and date are in the bottom left hand corner, “DORIS CORMIE 8/23/33”.
Subject
cowboy
ranch
Doris Cormie
Credit
Gift of Barry Hunter Gillis, Richmond, 2006
Catalogue Number
CmD.03.01
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Power Dam near Calgary

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Artist
Doris Cormie
Date
1933
Medium
drawing on paper
Catalogue Number
CmD.03.02
Description
A pastel landscape drawing on brown paper. A large cement dam at left, reaching past the centre dominates the drawing. In the background the sky is a pale blue. The large, grey dam has white water rushing through on the viewer’s right. On the same side of the drawing, extending out of frame, is a …
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Artist
Doris Cormie
Title
Power Dam near Calgary
Date
1933
Medium
drawing on paper
Dimensions
26.5 x 38.5 cm
Description
A pastel landscape drawing on brown paper. A large cement dam at left, reaching past the centre dominates the drawing. In the background the sky is a pale blue. The large, grey dam has white water rushing through on the viewer’s right. On the same side of the drawing, extending out of frame, is a large brown rock with yellow and orange highlites. In the foreground is blue water with white highlites. The artist signature is written in the bottom right corner in pencil. Au verso, written in very faint pencil in the top right corner is, “Doris Cormie 23 Aug 1933”.
Subject
dam
architecture
Doris Cormie
Credit
Gift of Barry Hunter Gillis, Richmond, 2006
Catalogue Number
CmD.03.02
Images
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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
Images
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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.03.03
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.
Subject
Indigenous
child
portrait
Credit
Gift of Roy Dundas, Executor- Roy B. and Delores M. Dundas Family Trust, Banff, 2006
Catalogue Number
OxD.03.03
Images
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