topic:" prairie" found 11 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Antelope

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: ThM.02.02

Description: General colour: green, yellow, brown, blue. An antelope stands at the left side facing right. There is grass and shurbs in the foreground which become part of a slope which fills the lower three quarters. At the horizion mountains can be seen. Sky above is blue.

Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Title: Antelope

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 30.5 x 40.7 cm

Description: General colour: green, yellow, brown, blue. An antelope stands at the left side facing right. There is grass and shurbs in the foreground which become part of a slope which fills the lower three quarters. At the horizion mountains can be seen. Sky above is blue.

Subject: landscape, prairie; animal, antelope

Credit: Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1970

Catalogue Number: ThM.02.02

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Buffalo Hunt

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.06

Description: Two jumping bison, facing left are being chased by an man on a brown horse, he has a bow and arrow ready to shoot at the bison. The horizon runs across page just below centre line. The plain is brown, the sky is blue to the right and white/yellow the left half of picture.

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Title: Buffalo Hunt

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 23.0 x 30.0 cm

Description: Two jumping bison, facing left are being chased by an man on a brown horse, he has a bow and arrow ready to shoot at the bison. The horizon runs across page just below centre line. The plain is brown, the sky is blue to the right and white/yellow the left half of picture.

Subject: landscape, prairie; animal, buffalo, horse; figure, male; hunting; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.06

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Corner Mountain : Alberta's consummate shame

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Author: Pharis, Vivian

Call Number: P

Author: Pharis, Vivian

Physical Description: p.5-6

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Prairie Bluff

Notes: In Wilderness Alberta, vol.18, no.2, fall 1988

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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Fort MacLeod

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1944

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.058

Description: House in foreground, big sky with clouds, in Fort Macleod area.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Fort MacLeod

Date: 1944

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.8 x 28.0 cm

Description: House in foreground, big sky with clouds, in Fort Macleod area.

Subject: landscape; prairie; architecture, rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.058

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Fort MacLeod

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1944

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.059

Description: Grain elevators on prairie in Fort Macleod area.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Fort MacLeod

Date: 1944

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.8 x 28.0 cm

Description: Grain elevators on prairie in Fort Macleod area.

Subject: landscape; prairie; architecture, rural; grain elevators

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.059

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Fragile windswept bluff focus of dispute

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Author: Marty, Sid

Call Number: P

Author: Marty, Sid

Physical Description: p.12-13

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Prairie Bluff

Notes: In Wilderness Alberta, vol.18, no.1, spring 1988

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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Headlights at the Grizzly's Den

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Author: Marty, Sid

Call Number: P

Author: Marty, Sid

Physical Description: p.50-53

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Prairie Bluff

Notes: In Borealis, vol.1, no.2, April 1989

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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New Moon-Southern Alberta

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Artist: Rick Nicholas de Grandmaison (1932 – 1985, Canadian)

Date: 1976

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: DgO.02.05

Description: This painting is mainly sky. Two riders on horses are seen in the left half of the painting. In front of them there is a brush area of green and brown. It looks as if they are riding in foothill / prairie area. Mountains are visible in the background. The sky is pink, yellow and blue. A crescent mo…

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Artist: Rick Nicholas de Grandmaison (1932 – 1985, Canadian)

Title: New Moon-Southern Alberta

Date: 1976

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 54.3 x 75.0 cm

Description: This painting is mainly sky. Two riders on horses are seen in the left half of the painting. In front of them there is a brush area of green and brown. It looks as if they are riding in foothill / prairie area. Mountains are visible in the background. The sky is pink, yellow and blue. A crescent moon is in the sky.