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- Ping
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- PiN.06.01 a-e
- Description
- A five piece assembled sculpture of 2 flying birds. (a) base 2.0x8.0x4.1, black stone. Hand turned palm up with fingers clenched, fingernails carved in. Hole drilled in palm. (b) ivory support 4.6x1.5x.7. Centre has black cross both sides (c) support, ivory 4.0x6.0x.9, in shape of a w. Hole …
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- Artist
- Ping
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Description
- A five piece assembled sculpture of 2 flying birds. (a) base 2.0x8.0x4.1, black stone. Hand turned palm up with fingers clenched, fingernails carved in. Hole drilled in palm. (b) ivory support 4.6x1.5x.7. Centre has black cross both sides (c) support, ivory 4.0x6.0x.9, in shape of a w. Hole in centre bottom, round pegs at top each end. One broken off (stuck inside bird) (d) flying bird, ivory, 1.5x5.0x6.0. Head and wings outstretched, webbed feet, pointed backwards. Carved wing feathers and tail. Black 'arches' design simulate feathers on back and wings. Black eyes. Hole in belly. (e) bird, ivory, 1.3x5.5x5.7, same as (d) Top of peg (c) broken off in hole in belly.
- Subject
- birds
- mythological
- hand
- flying
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- PiN.06.01 a-e
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- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.777
- Description
- a: A helicopter is rescuing a group of animals that are being held up by a stretcher that is tied to the bottom of the helicopter. The stretcher is tilted up in the left, and the scarves of the animals are blowing in the wind, suggesting that the helicopter is moving. There are birds flying around …
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 17.7 cm
- Description
- a: A helicopter is rescuing a group of animals that are being held up by a stretcher that is tied to the bottom of the helicopter. The stretcher is tilted up in the left, and the scarves of the animals are blowing in the wind, suggesting that the helicopter is moving. There are birds flying around with them. Down below and in the background there is a idyllic mountain range, and below it is says, “SEASONS GREETINGS CATHARINE AND PETER” b: As supplement to the drawing seen in a, b is a newspaper clipping of a helicopter rescuing a man from his plane. In the bottom portion of the clipping is states, “RESCUES AT SEA. The two pictures tell two...the Atlantic at the weekend. On the left, a U.S. navy...single-engine plane after he was forced to ditch today...harbor. Two young girls and another passenger were....a French trawler, is hauled ashore by breeches buoy fro...England Sunday...” verso: an article discussing a game played by the Calgary Stampeders against the Regina Roughriders. The writes: “Sandhogs Stampeder Blitz... Keys 25-0 Win. By Gorde Hunter [Herald Sports Editor]. A brilliant defence that allowed the Regina Rough-riders a total offence of a mere 32 years, powered the Calgary Stampeders to a one-sided 25-0 win over the Roughriders Saturday afternoon at McMahon in the first game of the Western Conference total point semi-final series. With a crowd of 17,780 sitting in bright sunshine, the Cowboys completely dominated proceedings from flag to finish as the sandhogs made a shambles of the Regina attack by putting a tremendous rush on quarterback Bob Ptacek, a thorn in Stampeder sides all season. He managed to complete but five passes in 17 attempts for 47 yeard and the ground attack had less success. Meanwhile EAgle Day guided the Stamps to three touch-downs, a field goal, two converts and a pair of singles to add up to the 25 points they will take into tonights’s second game...”
- Subject
- Christmas card
- helicopter
- mountains
- mountain range
- birds
- rope
- stretcher
- squirrel
- moose
- bear
- rabbit
- wolf
- deer
- scarves
- flying
- rescue
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.777
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- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on vellum
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.778
- Description
- Silhouettes of a group of animals on a stretcher in mid-air with birds flying around them. A helicopter is above and a mountain range below. The background is filled in with a black ink to resemble the sky.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on vellum
- Dimensions
- 27.0 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- Silhouettes of a group of animals on a stretcher in mid-air with birds flying around them. A helicopter is above and a mountain range below. The background is filled in with a black ink to resemble the sky.
- Subject
- moose
- deer
- bear
- squirrel
- rabbit
- birds
- helicopter
- stretcher
- flying
- mountains
- mountain range
- rescue
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.778
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- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.780
- Description
- A rough sketch of a group of animals on a sketcher that is tethered to a helicopter. There are birds flying around them, and their scarves are blowing in the wind suggesting that the helicopter is moving. Below the animals there is a mountain range.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 21.5 cm
- Description
- A rough sketch of a group of animals on a sketcher that is tethered to a helicopter. There are birds flying around them, and their scarves are blowing in the wind suggesting that the helicopter is moving. Below the animals there is a mountain range.
- Subject
- helicopter
- flying
- rescue
- stretcher
- birds
- rope
- moose
- deer
- wolf
- squirrel
- rabbit
- bear
- mountains
- mountain range
- scarf
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.780
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- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.781
- Description
- Three boxes that depict concepts of Christmas cards. In the first box it is a gathering of the animals outside, second box is just a quick sketch of a moose, and the third is the moose staring at what appears to be shelves that is storing unknown objects. Inside the fold: there is some writing done…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.3 x 10.8 cm
- Description
- Three boxes that depict concepts of Christmas cards. In the first box it is a gathering of the animals outside, second box is just a quick sketch of a moose, and the third is the moose staring at what appears to be shelves that is storing unknown objects. Inside the fold: there is some writing done in a blue pencil that is not legible on the far right side. On top of it is a quick boxed off sketch of all the animals sitting in a library reading. To the left of this drawing there is a quick box sketched with a loose moose doodle on the inside, and another outside near the left edge. verso: Another quick boxed off sketch of the animals appearing to be on some surface in the air, with a mountain range below them. There appears to be something holding them up above the drawing from lines along the edge of support.
- Subject
- moose
- outside
- shelves
- storage
- object
- reading
- support
- mountains
- mountain range
- flying
- birds
- deer
- squirrel
- bear
- rabbit
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.781
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- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.794
- Description
- A group of animals are sitting on one of the wings of a biplane, all wearing goggles, and holding onto frame inside the two wings. They are flying over some nondescript landscape, with a little town below them and another plane and birds flying behind them.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 21.6 cm
- Description
- A group of animals are sitting on one of the wings of a biplane, all wearing goggles, and holding onto frame inside the two wings. They are flying over some nondescript landscape, with a little town below them and another plane and birds flying behind them.
- Subject
- Christmas card
- biplane
- frame
- birds
- moose
- rabbit
- bear
- deer
- squirrel
- plane
- town
- landscape
- flying
- goggles
- wings
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.794
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- Date
- 1915 – 1925
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.898
- Description
- On a telephone pole and wire there is a group of six black birds. The two on the far right are flying in and landing. Three are sitting looking in different directions, and the the last one that is closest to the pole is singing. There are musical notes around his beak.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1915 – 1925
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.6 x 27.9 cm
- Description
- On a telephone pole and wire there is a group of six black birds. The two on the far right are flying in and landing. Three are sitting looking in different directions, and the the last one that is closest to the pole is singing. There are musical notes around his beak.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.898
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