topic:"bird" found 19 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Bird

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Artist: Isapik (?)

Date: later than 1900

Catalogue Number: IsA.06.01

Description: Green stone, stylized bird, with head outstretched, may be swimming.

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Artist: Isapik (?)

Title: Bird

Date: later than 1900

Dimensions: 6.0 x 5.7 x 14.5 cm

Description: Green stone, stylized bird, with head outstretched, may be swimming.

Subject: animal, bird

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: IsA.06.01

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Bird bath and stone building

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1920

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.484

Description: Pencil drawing of a garden scene with a bird bath or stone basin in the foreground, a body of water in the middle, leading back to a stome building in background. Trees and bushes frame the drawing.

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Bird bath and stone building

Date: c. 1920

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 26.0 x 21.0 cm

Description: Pencil drawing of a garden scene with a bird bath or stone basin in the foreground, a body of water in the middle, leading back to a stome building in background. Trees and bushes frame the drawing.

Subject: landscape; building; basin; bird bath

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.484

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Luncheon Set

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Date: 1900 – 1940

Material: fibre

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0708 a-c

Description: Linen tablecloth set. (a) is central table cover with hemmed edges, parallel eyelet borders flank alternating scroll and diamond-in-square pattern. Variously coloured comic birds march around border trim. Entire central portion of cover pale beige linen. (b) is eight napkins or placemats with ide…

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Title: Luncheon Set

Date: 1900 – 1940

Material: fibre

Dimensions: 56.0 x 58.0 cm

Description: Linen tablecloth set. (a) is central table cover with hemmed edges, parallel eyelet borders flank alternating scroll and diamond-in-square pattern. Variously coloured comic birds march around border trim. Entire central portion of cover pale beige linen. (b) is eight napkins or placemats with identical borders but birds are arrayed in pairs, facing each other, at each of four corners. (b) are eight white linen placemats and have been well used. (c) are eight coasters or small placemats with identical borders as mentioned before and a single bird only on one border of each coaster. Pale beige linen colour as in (a).

Subject: households; kitchen; animal; bird; Edith Morse Rocc

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0708 a-c

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Mount Temple with Bird

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Artist: Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874 – 1927, American)

Date: 1909

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: FeL.05.01

Description: Colour: brown, blue, grey. A bird perched on a rock, surrounded by wild flowers, fills the lower two thirds foreground. Behind are distant mountains and blue sky. The bird is a Grey Crown Rosy Finch

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Artist: Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874 – 1927, American)

Title: Mount Temple with Bird

Date: 1909

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 30.0 x 24.9 cm

Description: Colour: brown, blue, grey. A bird perched on a rock, surrounded by wild flowers, fills the lower two thirds foreground. Behind are distant mountains and blue sky. The bird is a Grey Crown Rosy Finch

Subject: bird; Grey Crown Rosy Finch

Credit: Gift of Mary Hallock, Fort St. James, 1981

Catalogue Number: FeL.05.01

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Owl

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1914 – 1925

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.656

Description: Pencil drawing of an owl, perched on a stand, with rough trees and mountains in the background. Enclosed in a rectangle. Below rectangle is the word OWL, circled. Signed Pete W. in cursive in brc within the rectangle; Signed P.R. WHiTE in brc outside rectangle.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Owl

Date: 1914 – 1925

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 17.0 x 21.8 cm

Description: Pencil drawing of an owl, perched on a stand, with rough trees and mountains in the background. Enclosed in a rectangle. Below rectangle is the word OWL, circled. Signed Pete W. in cursive in brc within the rectangle; Signed P.R. WHiTE in brc outside rectangle.

Subject: owl; bird; mountains; trees

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.656

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Placemat Set

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Date: 1900 – 1930

Material: fibre

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0715 a-f

Description: 6 beige, rectangular placemats hemmed with border eyelet stitching. Brown and blue birds embroidered into each of four corners, running brown braid stitch also trims border beside eyelet trim.

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Title: Placemat Set

Date: 1900 – 1930

Material: fibre

Dimensions: 29.0 x 44.5 cm

Description: 6 beige, rectangular placemats hemmed with border eyelet stitching. Brown and blue birds embroidered into each of four corners, running brown braid stitch also trims border beside eyelet trim.

Subject: households; kitchen; craft; embroidery; animal; bird

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0715 a-f

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Sparrow on Plum Branch

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Artist: Ohara Koson (1877 – 1945, Japanese)

Date: 1910

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: KhO.04.02

Description: A bird, brown tail, back and head with a white face and breast is sitting on a greyish branch which has some pink blossoms at both ends and runs from top left down to bottom right. The top of the picture is yellowish fading to white.

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Artist: Ohara Koson (1877 – 1945, Japanese)

Title: Sparrow on Plum Branch

Date: 1910

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 24.0 x 24.8 cm

Description: A bird, brown tail, back and head with a white face and breast is sitting on a greyish branch which has some pink blossoms at both ends and runs from top left down to bottom right. The top of the picture is yellowish fading to white.