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Burial of Chief David Bearspaw
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.030
- Date
- 1956
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.030
- Description
- Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.
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- Title
- Burial of Chief David Bearspaw
- Date
- 1956
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61.8 x 74.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.030
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- Date
- 1950 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.566
- Description
- A sketch or unfinished painting of a ring of nine teepees. The teepee in the foreground, viewer’s right, is the largest, has inside firelight and shadows visible. The teepee, in the foreground, viewer’s left, is partially visible, with shadows and light from within visible. There are two figures in…
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- Title
- Camp at Dusk
- Date
- 1950 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 27.0 x 71.0 cm
- Description
- A sketch or unfinished painting of a ring of nine teepees. The teepee in the foreground, viewer’s right, is the largest, has inside firelight and shadows visible. The teepee, in the foreground, viewer’s left, is partially visible, with shadows and light from within visible. There are two figures in the foreground, one in red, and one in blue and yellow and suggestions of others in the background. There is a low blue sky dusk descending overhead.
- Subject
- landscape
- camp
- teepee
- figure
- group
- Peter Whyte
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.566
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- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.580
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- Title
- Camp Scene
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 9.4 x 21.4 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.580
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- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.582
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- Title
- Camp Scene
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 9.7 x 21.4 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.582
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Circle of Tents
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.571
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.571
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- Title
- Circle of Tents
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 19.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.571
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Funeral of Chief David Bearspaw
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.033
- Date
- 1956
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.033
- Description
- Colour: multi colours on white. In the lower left corner is the backside of a sled pulled by two horses. There are figures sitting in the sled and walking beside it, also two dogs. Many figures are making their way from the right to the left of centre where there is a huge circle of figures. Ac…
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- Title
- Funeral of Chief David Bearspaw
- Date
- 1956
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 90.5 x 100.8 cm
- Description
- Colour: multi colours on white. In the lower left corner is the backside of a sled pulled by two horses. There are figures sitting in the sled and walking beside it, also two dogs. Many figures are making their way from the right to the left of centre where there is a huge circle of figures. Across the right side in front of a fence is a row of eleven sleds. The hills beyond meet the lake up centre and the far shore of blue mountains two thirds up. The sky is streaked grey.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.033
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- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.551
- Description
- Three decorated tepees stand in a row, blue mountains in the background, green grass in foreground. People in various colours of dress are sitting around the teepees.
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- Title
- Indian Days
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.3 x 40.1 cm
- Description
- Three decorated tepees stand in a row, blue mountains in the background, green grass in foreground. People in various colours of dress are sitting around the teepees.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.551
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- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.579
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- Title
- Sundance
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 9.5 x 27.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.579
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Untitled [Stoney Encampment]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.074
- Date
- 1945 – 1950
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.074
- Description
- A daytime scene of a Stoney encampment. At the left of the painting there is a looming teepee which appears to be in the immediate foreground. The encampment forms a circle in front of the viewer with the teepees at their smallest in the distance in the middle of the painting. The teepees are a…
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- Title
- Untitled [Stoney Encampment]
- Date
- 1945 – 1950
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 74.0 x 165.0 cm
- Description
- A daytime scene of a Stoney encampment. At the left of the painting there is a looming teepee which appears to be in the immediate foreground. The encampment forms a circle in front of the viewer with the teepees at their smallest in the distance in the middle of the painting. The teepees are a variety of colours. In the middle of the painting behind the encampment are green rolling hills and beyond the hills are grey mountains. People are milling about within the encampment. The sky is blue but across the entire top of the painting there are grey clouds.
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Paris, Banff, 1989
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.074
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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