topic:"female" found 26 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Ships in Port

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Artist: Barbara Leighton (1911 – 1986, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: LeB.04.18

Description: From the bottom left to the bottom right there is a pale peach dock with nine people gathered to perhaps buy, sell or prepare ocean goods. On the dock lies crates, buckets and barrels. A large ship is centered in the print, and behind it there is an even medium blue sky with seagulls circling. The…

Artist: Barbara Leighton (1911 – 1986, Canadian)

Title: Ships in Port

Date: n.d.

Medium: woodcut on paper

Description: From the bottom left to the bottom right there is a pale peach dock with nine people gathered to perhaps buy, sell or prepare ocean goods. On the dock lies crates, buckets and barrels. A large ship is centered in the print, and behind it there is an even medium blue sky with seagulls circling. The water has white reflections from the ship and is a darker blue then the sky. Anchored in the water are a couple of row boats and sail boats.

Subject: Seascape; transportation; ships; boats; figure; group; male; female; animal; seagulls

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1995

Catalogue Number: LeB.04.18

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Western ...?

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Artist: Barbara Leighton (1911 – 1986, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: LeB.04.20

Description: Over two thirds of this print starting from the bottom shows a female and three children feeding chickens. The field were they are standing in is a very light green. There are 16 chickens varying in color from dark yellow to peach to brown. Behind the figures there is a farm house, and two cows in …

Artist: Barbara Leighton (1911 – 1986, Canadian)

Title: Western ...?

Date: n.d.

Medium: woodcut on paper

Description: Over two thirds of this print starting from the bottom shows a female and three children feeding chickens. The field were they are standing in is a very light green. There are 16 chickens varying in color from dark yellow to peach to brown. Behind the figures there is a farm house, and two cows in the upper left. The far background is a cloudy blue/green sky.

Subject: Landscape; prairie; farmland; activity; farming;animal; chickens; cows; figure; female; children; architecture; rural farmhouse

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1995

Catalogue Number: LeB.04.20

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Woman in the Sea

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Artist: Eegyvudluk Ragee (1920 – 1983, Canadian)

Date: 1977

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: EeG.04.01

Description: A mermaid, happy face with arms outstretched, has a blue fish-scale body, fish tail. She is enclosed in a ribbon of bark textured seaweed? black with yellow tinge.

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Artist: Eegyvudluk Ragee (1920 – 1983, Canadian)

Title: Woman in the Sea

Date: 1977

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 42; 44 x 50; 50 cm

Description: A mermaid, happy face with arms outstretched, has a blue fish-scale body, fish tail. She is enclosed in a ribbon of bark textured seaweed? black with yellow tinge.

Subject: mythological; female

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

Catalogue Number: EeG.04.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1926

Medium: conté on conte paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.009

Description: A figure drawing of a seated female model. The letters ‘T’ and ‘P’ are barely visible in the top left corner.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1926

Medium: conté on conte paper

Dimensions: 63.0 x 48.0 cm

Description: A figure drawing of a seated female model. The letters ‘T’ and ‘P’ are barely visible in the top left corner.

Subject: figure; female

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.009

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1920 – 1928

Medium: graphite; conté on pale brown paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.010

Description: The paper support has been folded into two pieces with one human drawing on each side. The bottom figure is laying on her back with legs twisted away from viewer so her buttocks are showing, with her hands behind her head. The top figure is drawn in red, white and black conte. The top figure is …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1920 – 1928

Medium: graphite; conté on pale brown paper

Dimensions: 65.5 x 51.0 cm

Description: The paper support has been folded into two pieces with one human drawing on each side. The bottom figure is laying on her back with legs twisted away from viewer so her buttocks are showing, with her hands behind her head. The top figure is drawn in red, white and black conte. The top figure is male and is standing, oriented the opposite way. The head is on the left hand side, and his back is to the viewer, with arms raised with bent elbows. He has no hands.

Subject: figure; female; male

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.010

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1920 – 1928

Medium: conté on conte paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.018

Description: A drawing of a seated female life model. Simply rendered, outlines stark, sitting on a stool with her right leg tucked slightly behind her left leg. Arms are hanging at side, eyes appear either incomplete or shut.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1920 – 1928

Medium: conté on conte paper

Dimensions: 63.0 x 48.0 cm

Description: A drawing of a seated female life model. Simply rendered, outlines stark, sitting on a stool with her right leg tucked slightly behind her left leg. Arms are hanging at side, eyes appear either incomplete or shut.

Subject: figure; female

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.018

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1925

Medium: conté on conte paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.019

Description: A portrait study of a female sitter. She has dark chin-length hair, looking to viewers’ right, eyes set in shadows, wearing a pearl necklace with the collar of her dark shirt just visible.Faint lines (transfer from another drawing?) at her left shoulder and neck.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1925

Medium: conté on conte paper

Dimensions: 63.0 x 48.0 cm

Description: A portrait study of a female sitter. She has dark chin-length hair, looking to viewers’ right, eyes set in shadows, wearing a pearl necklace with the collar of her dark shirt just visible.Faint lines (transfer from another drawing?) at her left shoulder and neck.