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Artist
John Harold Thomas Snow (1911 – 2004, Canadian)
Date
1978
Medium
coloured lithograph on paper
Catalogue Number
SnJ.04.37
Description
The figure of a woman, mid chest to head with a child in her left arm, covers most of the picture. She is sitting on a high back brown chair. She is wearing a black dress with low round yellow collar and cuffs and with a locket around her neck. The baby has a black bonnet and a blue gown. The wa…
Artist
John Harold Thomas Snow (1911 – 2004, Canadian)
Title
The Child
Date
1978
Medium
coloured lithograph on paper
Dimensions
48.5 x 40.5 cm
Description
The figure of a woman, mid chest to head with a child in her left arm, covers most of the picture. She is sitting on a high back brown chair. She is wearing a black dress with low round yellow collar and cuffs and with a locket around her neck. The baby has a black bonnet and a blue gown. The wall paper is diamond shaped blue green.
Subject
figure
female
child
Credit
Gift of John Harold Thomas Snow, Calgary, 1995
Catalogue Number
SnJ.04.37
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Artist
Unknown
Date
prior to 1962
Medium
wool; hide
Catalogue Number
UnK.08.07
Description
This square wall hanging has green and black stitching all around the edges and in the corners. In the light background the scene includes in the upper section a male with a bow and arrow aiming at a caribou. The middle section shows a woman with a child on her back and a male figure with an arm ra…
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Artist
Unknown
Title
Family Caribou Hunt
Date
prior to 1962
Medium
wool; hide
Dimensions
58.0 x 66.0 cm
Description
This square wall hanging has green and black stitching all around the edges and in the corners. In the light background the scene includes in the upper section a male with a bow and arrow aiming at a caribou. The middle section shows a woman with a child on her back and a male figure with an arm raised. Just right of the center is a tee pee. Above the tee pee area is another woman with two children. The bottom area shows a dog tied to a fixed peg in the ground and another figure working on the tee pee. All the image shapes have been cut out of fibre with the exception of the tee pee, it is made from skin. The overall colour in this wall hanging is yellow, black,green and off white.
Subject
figures
male
female
child
activity
hunting
animals
caribou
dog
architecture
teepee
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
UnK.08.07
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Artist
John Harold Thomas Snow (1911 – 2004, Canadian)
Date
1986
Medium
coloured lithograph on paper
Catalogue Number
SnJ.04.28
Description
Portrait of a woman amd child sitting in a high backed brown chair; the woman is wearing a red sweater, orange blouse, green tie with a red brooch; long brown hair; her head is cut off by the top edge, her folded hands are at bottom edge; in her left arm is a child wearing a yellow dress; trc …
Artist
John Harold Thomas Snow (1911 – 2004, Canadian)
Title
Matilda
Date
1986
Medium
coloured lithograph on paper
Dimensions
52.5 x 72.0 cm
Description
Portrait of a woman amd child sitting in a high backed brown chair; the woman is wearing a red sweater, orange blouse, green tie with a red brooch; long brown hair; her head is cut off by the top edge, her folded hands are at bottom edge; in her left arm is a child wearing a yellow dress; trc a hanging red plant infront of a small-paned window; red patterned wall paper; a green potted plant to left on a yellow topped table.
Subject
portrait, group
mother and child
Credit
Gift of John Harold Thomas Snow, Calgary, 1990
Catalogue Number
SnJ.04.28
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“Starlight” Indian Papoose

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Artist
Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)
Date
n.d.
Medium
print on paper
Catalogue Number
DgN.04.04
Description
A print reproduction of a pastel drawing. The drawing is a portrait of a young girl. The girl has tan skin and dark brown eyes with red lips. Her black hair is in two thick-braided pigtails with red ribbon on the ends. The background is green and white. The artist signature is in red in the bottom…
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Artist
Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)
Title
“Starlight” Indian Papoose
Date
n.d.
Medium
print on paper
Dimensions
40.5 x 32.5 cm
Description
A print reproduction of a pastel drawing. The drawing is a portrait of a young girl. The girl has tan skin and dark brown eyes with red lips. Her black hair is in two thick-braided pigtails with red ribbon on the ends. The background is green and white. The artist signature is in red in the bottom left hand corner and also written on the print in blue ink in the bottom rhc. Under the image along the bottom right edge is black text, “Copyright by N. deGrandmaison in Canada and United States and published by The Last Arrow Ltd.” Also under the image in the centre is the title in black print, “Starlight, Indian Papoose”. Au verso, there is grey print near the bottom rhc, “This print is No. “D” - 337 of a limited edition”.
Subject
portrait
Indigenous
girl
child
Nicolas de Grandmaison
Credit
Gift of Nicolas Jr. de Grandmaison, Vancouver, 2011
Catalogue Number
DgN.04.04
Images
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