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Happy Birthday To You
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.579
- Date
- 1940
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.579
- Description
- Pencil drawing of a figure in a beret and a long coat. His face is simply made from horizontal lines for the brow and mouth, and a vertical line to describe the nose. At the top, a message reads HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. PW. It is signed again P.W. [brc] Verso: written in pen, in another hand and curs…
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- Title
- Happy Birthday To You
- Date
- 1940
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.5 x 10.0 cm
- Description
- Pencil drawing of a figure in a beret and a long coat. His face is simply made from horizontal lines for the brow and mouth, and a vertical line to describe the nose. At the top, a message reads HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. PW. It is signed again P.W. [brc] Verso: written in pen, in another hand and cursive: ‘by Peter Whyte/ Dec. 9. 1940.; #84; #94; S/S; p. 98 [underlined]
- Subject
- birthday
- greatcoat
- trench coat
- beret
- soldier
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.579
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Happy Birthday to You 1940
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.745
- Date
- 1940
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.745
- Description
- On the top half of the page there is three quick sketches: the one on the left is a full profile view of the figure, the middle drawing is a the full figure from his back, and the one on the right is just of the man’s head. He is wearing an army coat and a beret. In the middle of the page it says “…
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- Title
- Happy Birthday to You 1940
- Date
- 1940
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.3 x 20.3 cm
- Description
- On the top half of the page there is three quick sketches: the one on the left is a full profile view of the figure, the middle drawing is a the full figure from his back, and the one on the right is just of the man’s head. He is wearing an army coat and a beret. In the middle of the page it says “Happy Birthday to you 1940” and is signed “Peter”
- Subject
- army, man, coat, birthday
- corporal
- beret
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.745
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Where the Hell's My Horse!!!
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.648
- Date
- 1917 – 1929
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.648
- Description
- Drawings for a birthday card on the inside and outside of a folded paper. On the outside of the closed card is a drawing of a figure with a tall walking stick striding towards the viewer’s right. In the background is an animal (likely a goat) on the top of a peak. At the top of card an inscription …
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- Title
- Where the Hell's My Horse!!!
- Date
- 1917 – 1929
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.0 x 25.0 cm
- Description
- Drawings for a birthday card on the inside and outside of a folded paper. On the outside of the closed card is a drawing of a figure with a tall walking stick striding towards the viewer’s right. In the background is an animal (likely a goat) on the top of a peak. At the top of card an inscription reads WHERE THE HELL’S MY HORSE!!! In the tlc, a is a Banff Springs Hotel printed logo.Inside, is a small drawing of lumpy objects [potatoes?] with cartoon eyes to the left of three teepees. Directly below the drawing is the inscription POTATOES TO YOU -In cursive below is the comment: The star boarder with help of “Pete”Below in large block letters is HAPPY BIRTHDAY
- Subject
- horse
- humour
- potatoes
- teepees
- Happy Birthday
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.648
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