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Camp at Dusk

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.566

Description: A sketch or unfinished painting of a ring of nine teepees. The teepee in the foreground, viewer’s right, is the largest, has inside firelight and shadows visible. The teepee, in the foreground, viewer’s left, is partially visible, with shadows and light from within visible. There are two figures in…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Camp at Dusk

Date: 1950 – 1957

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 27.0 x 71.0 cm

Description: A sketch or unfinished painting of a ring of nine teepees. The teepee in the foreground, viewer’s right, is the largest, has inside firelight and shadows visible. The teepee, in the foreground, viewer’s left, is partially visible, with shadows and light from within visible. There are two figures in the foreground, one in red, and one in blue and yellow and suggestions of others in the background. There is a low blue sky dusk descending overhead.

Subject: landscape; camp; teepee; figure; group; Peter Whyte; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.566

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Stoney Camp at Dusk

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.019

Description: Colour: dark grey, blue, orange. In the foreground is a teepee at the left and right sides. The fires within glow through the tents. In between twelve more teepees are situated forming a partial circle around the central area where there are figures moving around in the darkness. Behind are hills a…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Stoney Camp at Dusk

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 59.0 x 160.9 cm

Description: Colour: dark grey, blue, orange. In the foreground is a teepee at the left and right sides. The fires within glow through the tents. In between twelve more teepees are situated forming a partial circle around the central area where there are figures moving around in the darkness. Behind are hills and mountains and blue sky which becomes dark grey with yellow streaks. Smoke can be seen coming out of the top flaps.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; figure; group; camp; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.019

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.035

Description: Storyboard/comic strip layout of First Nations travois and wagon and camp. Some feature horses, dogs, archery, and a drying or cooking rack. All drawings within the frames are lightly and sketchily rendered.Two rows of five frames = 10 separate frames, 6 cm high, 13 cm long. Frames appear to have b…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 52.0 x 75.0 cm

Description: Storyboard/comic strip layout of First Nations travois and wagon and camp. Some feature horses, dogs, archery, and a drying or cooking rack. All drawings within the frames are lightly and sketchily rendered.Two rows of five frames = 10 separate frames, 6 cm high, 13 cm long. Frames appear to have been drawn with straight edge or ruler.Second drawing of stick tipi at top of page, oriented in the opposite direction.