topic:"mythological" found 51 records - Research Collections

Exceptional Fault

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Artist: Robert J. Hope (1948 – 2023, Canadian)

Date: 1978

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: HoR.03.05

Description: Drawn from a passage by Gordon Walls for the exhibition Beyond Exceptional Pass at the Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, summer of 1978.

Artist: Robert J. Hope (1948 – 2023, Canadian)

Title: Exceptional Fault

Date: 1978

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 10.2;10.1 x 6.4;6.3 cm

Description: Drawn from a passage by Gordon Walls for the exhibition Beyond Exceptional Pass at the Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, summer of 1978.

Subject: landscape, mythological; bird; fish

Credit: Gift of Robert J. Hope, 1982

Catalogue Number: HoR.03.05

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A few of them I know...

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Date: 1978

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ArP.04.09

Description: The story - page 8: A few of them I have know have a wonderful time changing personalities once in a while. I find the clothes all over everytime I go into the bathroom.

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Title: A few of them I know...

Date: 1978

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 17.5 x 17.5 cm

Description: The story - page 8: A few of them I have know have a wonderful time changing personalities once in a while. I find the clothes all over everytime I go into the bathroom.

Subject: animal; mythological

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

Catalogue Number: ArP.04.09

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Galetta

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Artist: Leslie Reid

Date: 1975

Medium: serigraph on paper

Catalogue Number: ReL.04.01

Description: Colour: pale pink. One third the way up across the picture a horizon line of trees seen faintly against a flat pink background.

Artist: Leslie Reid

Title: Galetta

Date: 1975

Medium: serigraph on paper

Dimensions: 75.6 x 56.5 cm

Description: Colour: pale pink. One third the way up across the picture a horizon line of trees seen faintly against a flat pink background.

Subject: abstract; mythological

Credit: Gift of Jon Whyte, Banff, 1978

Catalogue Number: ReL.04.01

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Ghost Dance

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1972

Medium: lithograph on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.04.06

Description: Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are …

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Ghost Dance

Date: 1972

Medium: lithograph on paper

Dimensions: 59.6 x 39.2 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are three wide round bands going across the picture.

Subject: figure, male; group; mythological

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

Catalogue Number: StS.04.06

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Ghost Dance

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1972

Medium: lithograph on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.04.02

Description: Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are …

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Ghost Dance

Date: 1972

Medium: lithograph on paper

Dimensions: 39.3 x 59.5 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are three wide round bands going across the picture.

Subject: figure, male; group; mythological

Credit: Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: StS.04.02

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How the Beaver got His Tail

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Artist: Wayne Matchatis

Date: 1972

Medium: oil on canvas on cardboard

Catalogue Number: MtW.02.01

Description: Symbolic s-curve drawing of the evolution of how the beaver got his tail, black on white, some of the forms are filled in solid.

Artist: Wayne Matchatis

Title: How the Beaver got His Tail

Date: 1972

Medium: oil on canvas on cardboard

Dimensions: 30 x 40.5 cm

Description: Symbolic s-curve drawing of the evolution of how the beaver got his tail, black on white, some of the forms are filled in solid.

Subject: mythological

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

Catalogue Number: MtW.02.01

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Indian Head

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Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Date: 1976

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.08

Description: Colours blue, black, orange, yellow, gold; a stylized head in left centre of picture; long blue and gold earrings; a continuous line runs to centre left of picture, all very stylized, could be a lance with feathers hanging from it; the design at his neck resembles a bird's head; the background is l…

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Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Title: Indian Head

Date: 1976

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Dimensions: 35.5 x 45.5 cm

Description: Colours blue, black, orange, yellow, gold; a stylized head in left centre of picture; long blue and gold earrings; a continuous line runs to centre left of picture, all very stylized, could be a lance with feathers hanging from it; the design at his neck resembles a bird's head; the background is left white.

Subject: mythological; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.08

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Indian Legend

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Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Date: 1976

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.07

Description: Colours gold, black, orange, yellow, blue, green; a stylized bird with a bear inside; object in centre of picture rest of background left white.

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Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Title: Indian Legend

Date: 1976

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Dimensions: 35.5 x 45.5 cm

Description: Colours gold, black, orange, yellow, blue, green; a stylized bird with a bear inside; object in centre of picture rest of background left white.