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A Good Way to Reduce and Midnight Exercise

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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 …
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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
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Date
1958 – 1962
Material
wood; fibre; shell
Catalogue Number
107.02.0027
Description
A mobile made from various seashells hanging from small sticks on strings. Top stick is curved with small branch, middle stick is longest and greyed, with the bottom stick shortest of all. Mobile is well balanced by various seashells, starfish, and sand dollars, crabs and barnacles hanging from eac…
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Title
Mobile
Date
1958 – 1962
Material
wood; fibre; shell
Dimensions
93.0 x 17.0 (appr x 30.0(appro cm
Description
A mobile made from various seashells hanging from small sticks on strings. Top stick is curved with small branch, middle stick is longest and greyed, with the bottom stick shortest of all. Mobile is well balanced by various seashells, starfish, and sand dollars, crabs and barnacles hanging from each of the sticks.
Subject
Whyte home
baby accessories
personal
gift
households
decorative
craft
Gray Campbell
Eleanor Campbell
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
107.02.0027
Images
Less detail
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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