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Buffalo Dancer
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- Date
- 1920 – 1960
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HeV.07.01
- Description
- An man in full ceremonial regalia, bison headdress, yellow skirt with snake design, red sash, white moccasins with brown fringes, rattles in right hand and horns in left. He is dancing, standing on left leg.
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- Title
- Buffalo Dancer
- Date
- 1920 – 1960
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 23.0 x 12.5 cm
- Description
- An man in full ceremonial regalia, bison headdress, yellow skirt with snake design, red sash, white moccasins with brown fringes, rattles in right hand and horns in left. He is dancing, standing on left leg.
- Subject
- activity, dancing
- figure, male
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- HeV.07.01
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Building a Log House
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcag.05.01
- Artist
- Grace Carswell
- Date
- 1955
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CaG.05.01
- Description
- A primitive style painting of a pioneer scene, a log house building, with much activity around it. Lush trees in background, blue sky centre top, a blue river runs bottom left corner to centre right. Off centre right stands a red coated man with hat and long barrelled rifle talking to another man…
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- Artist
- Grace Carswell
- Title
- Building a Log House
- Date
- 1955
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.8 x 22.7 cm
- Description
- A primitive style painting of a pioneer scene, a log house building, with much activity around it. Lush trees in background, blue sky centre top, a blue river runs bottom left corner to centre right. Off centre right stands a red coated man with hat and long barrelled rifle talking to another man dressed in buckskin, also with a long barrelled rifle
- Subject
- landscape
- historical
- genre
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- CaG.05.01
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- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- gouache on card
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.07.02
- Description
- Four cowboys are gathered around a teepee, the top of which is not visible, as it runs of the paper. A man at the far right sits on a boulder and plays the guitar. The next man’s back faces the viewer. The third man sits on a second boulder and appears to be playing the harmonica. The fourth ma…
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- Title
- Four Cowboys
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- gouache on card
- Dimensions
- 26 x 35.8 cm
- Description
- Four cowboys are gathered around a teepee, the top of which is not visible, as it runs of the paper. A man at the far right sits on a boulder and plays the guitar. The next man’s back faces the viewer. The third man sits on a second boulder and appears to be playing the harmonica. The fourth man stands with his leg on the same boulder, his hand resting on his leg. A tree trunk is visible behind the man on the far right. Mountains and a stormy-looking sky are seen beyond the camp setting. All of the men are wearing cowboy hats.
- Subject
- figure
- male
- cowboy
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- architecture
- teepee
- activity
- music
- guitar
- harmonica
- Credit
- Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.07.02
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The Frollicking Navajo Girls
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- 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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Temple Mountain from the Saddle
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactjof.07.01
- Date
- c. 1926
- Medium
- painting on paper
- Catalogue Number
- JoF.07.01
- Description
- A mountain scene framed on the right by a portion of a rocky mountain which is cropped on the top, right and bottom by the edge of the work. This portion takes up approximately 1/3 of the work lengthwise, and is purple in colour. Sharing the foreground with this large rock are several (5) evergr…
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- Title
- Temple Mountain from the Saddle
- Date
- c. 1926
- Medium
- painting on paper
- Dimensions
- 11.5 x 17.0 cm
- Description
- A mountain scene framed on the right by a portion of a rocky mountain which is cropped on the top, right and bottom by the edge of the work. This portion takes up approximately 1/3 of the work lengthwise, and is purple in colour. Sharing the foreground with this large rock are several (5) evergreens. We only see the tips of these trees although the tree on the left side of the picture reaches almost to the lc. A mountain range painted in blue colours is in the background and, and is cropped on the bottom and left by the picture’s border, and on the right side by the rocky mountain side in the foreground. The small amount of visible sky is yellowish in colour.
- Credit
- Purchased from The Collector’s Gallery, Calgary, 1999
- Catalogue Number
- JoF.07.01
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Three Laplanders And A Dog
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- Artist
- Astri Riis Horvei
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HoA.07.01
- Description
- Three Sami, one adult male, a male child and a female child, all in full traditional dress. The males have a three-pointed blue hat, a long blue tunic tied with a colourful belt, colourful trim on shoulders and arms, black leggings and yellow pointed-toe boots. The girl has a red hat, a flowered sc…
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- Artist
- Astri Riis Horvei
- Title
- Three Laplanders And A Dog
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.1 x 32.3 cm
- Description
- Three Sami, one adult male, a male child and a female child, all in full traditional dress. The males have a three-pointed blue hat, a long blue tunic tied with a colourful belt, colourful trim on shoulders and arms, black leggings and yellow pointed-toe boots. The girl has a red hat, a flowered scarf over her shoulders, a light blue decorated tunic, black leggings and yellow boots. A black dog, cut out of black paper, stands to the left of the picture.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- HoA.07.01
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To Smell Balsam
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- Date
- 1975
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Catalogue Number
- JvA.07.01
- Description
- General colour: green. Long green configurations move across from left to right several tendrils break off from the main line upwards and downwards. The central shape is a slanted 'N' shape.
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- Title
- To Smell Balsam
- Date
- 1975
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.0 x 77.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: green. Long green configurations move across from left to right several tendrils break off from the main line upwards and downwards. The central shape is a slanted 'N' shape.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- JvA.07.01
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- Artist
- Henry Ayn
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Catalogue Number
- AyH.07.01
- Description
- Two older ladies are standing close together. Both ladies have aprons on and are carrying baskets. One lady has an umbrella tucked into her arm while the two look down at a small booklet or list. In a basket sitting on the ground in the bottom left corner of the image there are two ducks. One lady …
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- Artist
- Henry Ayn
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 33.5 x 24.0 cm
- Description
- Two older ladies are standing close together. Both ladies have aprons on and are carrying baskets. One lady has an umbrella tucked into her arm while the two look down at a small booklet or list. In a basket sitting on the ground in the bottom left corner of the image there are two ducks. One lady is wearing a dark dress and the other is wearing a lighter coloured dress.Both women are wearing head covers of some type.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- AyH.07.01
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Untitled [Picnic at Bow Lake]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgyh.07.03
- Date
- c. 1930
- Medium
- on card
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.07.03
- Description
- A group of 14 men and women stand and sit on blankets. Several figures hold bowls and cups. They are dressed primarily in shades of blue, red and yellow. There are two mountains in the background, on the left in purple and on the right and centre in orange.
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- Title
- Untitled [Picnic at Bow Lake]
- Date
- c. 1930
- Medium
- on card
- Dimensions
- 32 x 38 cm
- Description
- A group of 14 men and women stand and sit on blankets. Several figures hold bowls and cups. They are dressed primarily in shades of blue, red and yellow. There are two mountains in the background, on the left in purple and on the right and centre in orange.
- Subject
- landscape
- figures
- picnic
- social realism
- Bow Lake
- Credit
- Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.07.03
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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