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The Frollicking Navajo Girls
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactnag.07.01
- Date
- 1951
- Medium
- watercolour; gouache on paper
- Catalogue Number
- NaG.07.01
- Description
- Three girls, smaller one in middle, dancing from right to left. They are all dressed similarly, tunic top, pleated skirt, leggings, and hair tied back into a bone shape. A grey sun symbol is in top middle of picture. Two mushrooms, three stones, two plants indicate ground line. The colours range fr…
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- Title
- The Frollicking Navajo Girls
- Date
- 1951
- Medium
- watercolour; gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 43.3 x 35.7 cm
- Description
- Three girls, smaller one in middle, dancing from right to left. They are all dressed similarly, tunic top, pleated skirt, leggings, and hair tied back into a bone shape. A grey sun symbol is in top middle of picture. Two mushrooms, three stones, two plants indicate ground line. The colours range from grey, purple, mauve to light browns.
- Subject
- figure, female
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- NaG.07.01
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Navajo Girl Riding to the Trading Post
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbgh.07.01
- Date
- c. 1950
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BgH.07.01
- Description
- Painting shows Navajo girl wearing pleated skirt, colourful wrap, black hair on Appaloosa horse with colourful saddle blanket; only foreground is several desert elements; horse appears to be galloping.
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- Title
- Navajo Girl Riding to the Trading Post
- Date
- c. 1950
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.6 x 31.1 cm
- Description
- Painting shows Navajo girl wearing pleated skirt, colourful wrap, black hair on Appaloosa horse with colourful saddle blanket; only foreground is several desert elements; horse appears to be galloping.
- Subject
- figure, female
- Indigenous
- animal, horse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- BgH.07.01
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To The Morning
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsts.05.04
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.04
- Description
- Colour: brown, red, blue, black on yellow. A bare-breasted woman with a baby in a cradleboard on her back strides towards the viewer’s left side of the painting. A black dog, with his red tongue hanging out, follows the high top moccasins in her left hand. She carries a white shawl in her right han…
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- Title
- To The Morning
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: brown, red, blue, black on yellow. A bare-breasted woman with a baby in a cradleboard on her back strides towards the viewer’s left side of the painting. A black dog, with his red tongue hanging out, follows the high top moccasins in her left hand. She carries a white shawl in her right hand and wears a blue, red, green and white skirt. A smaller image of the woman and the dog are seen in the red oval which sits right of center on the red horizon line.Au verso: “TO THE MORNING”
- Subject
- figure, female
- animal, dog
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.04
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True Beautiful Woman
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactchy.04.05%20a-c
- Date
- 1897
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.05 a-c
- Description
- (a) a woman holding an oval fan, wearing a sombre kimono and glancing over her right shoulder, her hair is loose and appears to be wet (b) 37.2 x 25.0/30.2 x 21.1 a woman wearing a grey patterned kimono with red lining at the sleeves, and multi-coloured sash, she is well-coiffed and made-up (c) A …
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- Title
- True Beautiful Woman
- Date
- 1897
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Dimensions
- 37 x 25 cm
- Description
- (a) a woman holding an oval fan, wearing a sombre kimono and glancing over her right shoulder, her hair is loose and appears to be wet (b) 37.2 x 25.0/30.2 x 21.1 a woman wearing a grey patterned kimono with red lining at the sleeves, and multi-coloured sash, she is well-coiffed and made-up (c) A waist-up portrait of Japanese lady and baby. She wears a patterned mauve kimono with red sash, under dress and red comb and tassel in her hair; also a white flower in her hair. She is holding either a doll or a baby that is dressed in a green kimono with red under-kimono.
- Subject
- figure, female
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.05 a-c
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Untitled [Lady in Kimono with Mirror]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactshs.04.01
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ShS.04.01
- Description
- A Japanese lady has on a greenish kimono, light red under dress, she is looking over her right shoulder, has a mirror in her left hand. A black dresser is to her left. The background is divided into three areas: top is off-white, middle area is light green with reed pattern and reddish trim, and th…
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- Title
- Untitled [Lady in Kimono with Mirror]
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.5 x 14.4 cm
- Description
- A Japanese lady has on a greenish kimono, light red under dress, she is looking over her right shoulder, has a mirror in her left hand. A black dresser is to her left. The background is divided into three areas: top is off-white, middle area is light green with reed pattern and reddish trim, and the floor is green.
- Subject
- figure, female
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- ShS.04.01
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