Skip header and navigation

Narrow Results By

1 records – page 1 of 1.

A Good Way to Reduce and Midnight Exercise

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.602
Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1917 – 1929
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.602
Description
Two comical scenes drawn in ink that depict, in cartoon style, ways to lose weight or get exercise. The left scene is titled A GOOD WAY TO REDUCE, the one on the right is titled MIDNIGHT EXERCISE. The scene on the left shows a man whose leg has been cut off from a car driving over it with a speech …
  1 image  
Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
A Good Way to Reduce and Midnight Exercise
Date
1917 – 1929
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
15.2 x 25.0 cm
Description
Two comical scenes drawn in ink that depict, in cartoon style, ways to lose weight or get exercise. The left scene is titled A GOOD WAY TO REDUCE, the one on the right is titled MIDNIGHT EXERCISE. The scene on the left shows a man whose leg has been cut off from a car driving over it with a speech bubble that says “NOW I’M DOWN TO A HUNDRED AND EIGHTY AT LAST.” The scene on the right shows a man walking inside with a crying baby with a speech bubble that says “AH WAWA WOW” and another speech bubble coming from the man saying “IF I WAS SINGLE AGAIN GEE WHIZ.”
Subject
weight loss
exercise
baby
health
comic
cartoon
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.602
Images
Less detail
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
Back to Top