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Figurine Group

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Date: 1977

Material: wood; plaster

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0091

Description: Long flat wooden base painted with black enamel. Twelve small, brightly painted, plaster figures stand in a row along the base, the figures are from left to right (1) a skull painted brown, (2 )white faced person wrapped in red cloak, (3) a brown standing bear wearing coolie hat and carrying white …

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Title: Figurine Group

Date: 1977

Material: wood; plaster

Dimensions: 3.3 x 2.7 x 18.2 cm

Description: Long flat wooden base painted with black enamel. Twelve small, brightly painted, plaster figures stand in a row along the base, the figures are from left to right (1) a skull painted brown, (2 )white faced person wrapped in red cloak, (3) a brown standing bear wearing coolie hat and carrying white sack, (4) a seated white cat with red feathers, (5) a green frog, (6) a standing man with exposed fat belly wearing an orange robe and carrying a white sack over his shoulder, (7) a standing woman in blue kimono with yellow hood over face, holding a lyre, (8) a man with purple blouse and green trousers holding a club, (9 )a man with black overblouse and turquoise skirt, holding staff and round yellow object with turquoise sack over shoulder, (10) a kneeling bald man with pointed head and white beard, carrying fan and wearing green robe, (11) a black cat standing with back arched, (12) a seated man with orange robe.

Subject: households; decorative; miniatures; religious; animal; bear; cat; frog; figure; male; female

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

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0091

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“Hop Oasts” - Wet Day

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.33

Description: A dark, cloudy sky, and pouring rain extend across the watercolour. In the centre of the image there is a large building which may be a church. A horse and cart in the blc and a number of people are milling around in front of the building. Trees are visible on the right and left of the image.

Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: “Hop Oasts” - Wet Day

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: A dark, cloudy sky, and pouring rain extend across the watercolour. In the centre of the image there is a large building which may be a church. A horse and cart in the blc and a number of people are milling around in front of the building. Trees are visible on the right and left of the image.

Subject: landscape; urban; figure; male; female; animal; horse; architecture; church

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 2001

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.33

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Bears and Woman

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Artist: Ashoona Pitseolak (1904 – 1983, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1962

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: PiA.04.01

Description: engraved images of a woman in long tailed parka faces to the left, arms outstretched; she is facing two bears one is standing and showing teeth. 2.8 dia. embossed circle in br.Bottom reads “23/50 Dorset 1962 Pitseolak”Back reads “#270 DOR/FG 1962-49”Canadian Eskimo Arts Council (CEAC)embossed chop …

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Artist: Ashoona Pitseolak (1904 – 1983, Canadian)

Title: Bears and Woman

Date: prior to 1962

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 31.5 x 45.3 cm

Description: engraved images of a woman in long tailed parka faces to the left, arms outstretched; she is facing two bears one is standing and showing teeth. 2.8 dia. embossed circle in br.Bottom reads “23/50 Dorset 1962 Pitseolak”Back reads “#270 DOR/FG 1962-49”Canadian Eskimo Arts Council (CEAC)embossed chop in br.

Subject: animal; bear; figure; female; mythological; transformation

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: PiA.04.01

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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.