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Big Bear Medicine
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- Date
- 1998
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- AuD.12.01
- Description
- A large painting of an Indigenous dressed as a bear. The man’s face is visible through the mouth of the bear fur that covers him. The man’s eyes are hidden by shadows. Yellow and black paint is on the rest of his face. In the claws, the man holds a wand-like stick, at the tip of which are four …
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- Title
- Big Bear Medicine
- Date
- 1998
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 92.5 x 92.5 cm
- Description
- A large painting of an Indigenous dressed as a bear. The man’s face is visible through the mouth of the bear fur that covers him. The man’s eyes are hidden by shadows. Yellow and black paint is on the rest of his face. In the claws, the man holds a wand-like stick, at the tip of which are four feathers. These are in the blc of the image. On either side of the bear’s head are patches of aquamarine.
- Subject
- religious
- Indigenous
- animal
- bear
- Credit
- Purchased from Bernie Makokis, St. Paul, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- AuD.12.01
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Exit - Divide Pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactenm.13.01
- Date
- 1992
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.13.01
- Description
- A black, white and red, abstracted collage. Background is painted red with black streaks. The dominant part of the piece is a photo of a bear that has been cut out and placed on top of a mountain landscape that has been drawn using charcoal. Framing the charcoal landscape is a black and white strip…
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- Title
- Exit - Divide Pass
- Date
- 1992
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Dimensions
- 32.7 x 38.0 cm
- Description
- A black, white and red, abstracted collage. Background is painted red with black streaks. The dominant part of the piece is a photo of a bear that has been cut out and placed on top of a mountain landscape that has been drawn using charcoal. Framing the charcoal landscape is a black and white striped border. There is a red outline around the bear and the bear’s shadow is painted in black at its feet. The shadow drops out of frame just right of centre at bottom of artwork. At the bottom left, extending across the image, is a block of black and white stripes. The artist signature is in the bottom rhc written in pencil, “Maureen Enns” and on the bottom lhc is the title of the work, also written in pencil, “Exit - Divide Pass”.
- Subject
- bear
- Maureen Enns
- Credit
- Gift of Maureen Enns, Cochrane, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.13.01
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Grizzlies#2, Icefield Parkway
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactenm.12.02
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- acrylic; charcoal; paper; glue on paper
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.02
- Description
- Predominant colours are red, black, white, teal blue, pink, green and yellow. In the foreground, beginning at the viewer’s left, wildflowers, that appear to be Indian Paintbrush, are painted in shades of pink and red with green and yellow leaves, and black stems. They are on a background of teal bl…
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- Title
- Grizzlies#2, Icefield Parkway
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- acrylic; charcoal; paper; glue on paper
- Description
- Predominant colours are red, black, white, teal blue, pink, green and yellow. In the foreground, beginning at the viewer’s left, wildflowers, that appear to be Indian Paintbrush, are painted in shades of pink and red with green and yellow leaves, and black stems. They are on a background of teal blue and black and white diagonal stripes. There are also strips of paper cut in diagonals that are glued on and painted over. The stripes and flowers grow steadily larger as they progress to the viewer’s right. On the viewer’s left, above the flowers, on the white background is a hint of a blue and green rectangle, white space, and then a long red rectangular shape that progresses into the flowers. Mid-centre is a charcoal drawing of a mountain range on the Icefield Parkway road. Trees starting at the viewer’s left continue across the valley rising to the scree slopes of one mountain’s lower slopes on the viewer’s right. Above the trees is a range of mountains with a glacier below (it could be part of the Crowfoot Glacier). The top one-third of the painting has two grizzly bears drawn with charcoal and outlined in white, on a red background. The bears appear to be on a slope; the bottom bear is feeding, his nose to the black ground and the bear above is looking at the viewer. There are the colourful wildflowers on the blue background left of the bears, white space, the bears, another larger white space, and then the wildflowers again to the viewer’s extreme right.The painting is signed in the brc “Enns ‘91”.
- Credit
- Gift of Maureen Heffring, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.02
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King of the Rockies
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- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil; acrylic on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.01
- Description
- The center of the painting is a bear turned so it is looking to the left and out of the image frame. Behind the bear is a mountain range with some snow and ice throughout. In the bottom left corner there is a skull from a bighorn sheep. The lower right hand corner has bear foot prints in black with…
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- Title
- King of the Rockies
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil; acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 213.3 x 152.4 cm
- Description
- The center of the painting is a bear turned so it is looking to the left and out of the image frame. Behind the bear is a mountain range with some snow and ice throughout. In the bottom left corner there is a skull from a bighorn sheep. The lower right hand corner has bear foot prints in black with red around them. The bear has a brown colour fur and the ground that it is standing on is blue green. The sky is also a green colour while the mountains have green shadows and white highlights. Located directly behind the bear are two black lines that crisscross as they get higher to the top of the painting.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- animal
- bear
- Credit
- Gift of Maureen Enns, Cochrane, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.01
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