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Untitled

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1987

Medium: type C - print on photographic paper

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.06

Description: Hanging on the wall is a mirror. In the mirror is a figure holding a camera photographing herself. The wall paper around the mirror is a floral pattern with lots of colour. The room featured here is a bathroom. Under the mirror is a soap container attached to the wall and directly under that is a …

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1987

Medium: type C - print on photographic paper

Dimensions: 49.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Hanging on the wall is a mirror. In the mirror is a figure holding a camera photographing herself. The wall paper around the mirror is a floral pattern with lots of colour. The room featured here is a bathroom. Under the mirror is a soap container attached to the wall and directly under that is a sink that has been cut off by the image frame.

Subject: figure; female; portrait

Credit: Gift of Barb Spohr, Calgary, 1996

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.06

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Inuit Woman

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Artist: Pootoogook

Date: prior to 1962

Catalogue Number: PoO.06.01

Description: Standing Inuit woman with child on her back, carved from one green stone, a fully clothed Inuit woman. Features carved in detail, hands in mitts turned upward as if carrying something.

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Artist: Pootoogook

Title: Inuit Woman

Date: prior to 1962

Dimensions: 16.0 x 7.5 cm

Description: Standing Inuit woman with child on her back, carved from one green stone, a fully clothed Inuit woman. Features carved in detail, hands in mitts turned upward as if carrying something.

Subject: figure, female; child; woman

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: PoO.06.01

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Balinese Woman

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.458

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Balinese Woman

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.0 x 34.8 cm

Subject: portrait, female; Balinese

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.458

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Elisabee Povungnituk

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.05

Description: A full face portrait of an Inuit lady. She has a red patterned scarf around her head, a green parka with a yellow collar.

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Elisabee Povungnituk

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 45.8 x 38.0 cm

Description: A full face portrait of an Inuit lady. She has a red patterned scarf around her head, a green parka with a yellow collar.

Subject: portrait, female; Inuit

Credit: Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.05

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The Child

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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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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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Mermaid

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Artist: Joshua Nappatu Qaqutu (1936 – , Canadian)

Date: prior to 1962

Catalogue Number: JoU.06.01

Description: Dark green stone, flat one side. Mermaid in a sitting position, facing left. Long hair, parted in the middle flows down her back to the right. Carved and incised features, breasts, hands, ear and fin. She appears old and unhappy.

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Artist: Joshua Nappatu Qaqutu (1936 – , Canadian)

Title: Mermaid

Date: prior to 1962

Dimensions: 2.6 x 4.6 cm

Description: Dark green stone, flat one side. Mermaid in a sitting position, facing left. Long hair, parted in the middle flows down her back to the right. Carved and incised features, breasts, hands, ear and fin. She appears old and unhappy.