topic:"female" found 15 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Balancing Nude

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Artist: Robert Ralp Carmichael (1937 – , Canadian)

Date: 1971

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CaR.03.02

Description: A seated nude (no furniture indicated) facing left, legs crossed, chin rests on her right hand, left arm lays across her right knee which is crossed over left. The model has long hair, face and one foot are indistinct. The drawing is done in a brown, red colour with light yellow highlights. Tit…

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Artist: Robert Ralp Carmichael (1937 – , Canadian)

Title: Balancing Nude

Date: 1971

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Dimensions: 34.1 x 45.3 cm

Description: A seated nude (no furniture indicated) facing left, legs crossed, chin rests on her right hand, left arm lays across her right knee which is crossed over left. The model has long hair, face and one foot are indistinct. The drawing is done in a brown, red colour with light yellow highlights. Titled and signed on back as well.

Subject: figure; female

Credit: Gift of Unknown, 1968

Catalogue Number: CaR.03.02

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Carlotta

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Artist: John Harold Thomas Snow (1911 – 2004, Canadian)

Date: 1971

Medium: linocut on paper

Catalogue Number: SnJ.04.07

Description: A head and shoulder portrait of a woman; facing to the right; thick white lines outline the face, hair and features; a flower with 2 stems of leaves in l foreground; background is vertical white lines

Artist: John Harold Thomas Snow (1911 – 2004, Canadian)

Title: Carlotta

Date: 1971

Medium: linocut on paper

Dimensions: 23.0 x 17.8 cm

Description: A head and shoulder portrait of a woman; facing to the right; thick white lines outline the face, hair and features; a flower with 2 stems of leaves in l foreground; background is vertical white lines

Subject: portrait, female

Credit: Gift of John Harold Thomas Snow, Calgary, 1990

Catalogue Number: SnJ.04.07

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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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Elizabeth Bearspaw

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Artist: Vera Louise Drysdale (1921 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1974

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DyV.02.01

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Artist: Vera Louise Drysdale (1921 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Elizabeth Bearspaw

Date: 1974

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.5 x 31.5 cm

Subject: portrait; female; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: DyV.02.01

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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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Half Face in the Dark

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: marking pen on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.03

Description: Colour: black on white, the head of a woman, facing slightly to viewer’s right. The left side of the face is visible the right side is in total darkness. Her neck hides in the shadows also though her shoulders are white. Only the outline indicates their shape.Au verso: HALF FACE IN THE DARK

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Half Face in the Dark

Date: 1970

Medium: marking pen on paper

Dimensions: 42.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Colour: black on white, the head of a woman, facing slightly to viewer’s right. The left side of the face is visible the right side is in total darkness. Her neck hides in the shadows also though her shoulders are white. Only the outline indicates their shape.Au verso: HALF FACE IN THE DARK

Subject: portrait; female

Credit: Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: StS.03.03

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Inuit Girl, Rankin Inlet

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.096

Description: Portrait of an Inuk girl.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Inuit Girl, Rankin Inlet

Date: 1970

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: Portrait of an Inuk girl.

Subject: portrait, female

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.096

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Inuit Girls Sleeping, Pangnirtung

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: oil on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.213

Description: A small sketch of two girls lying in bed. The red blankets covering an imaginary bed are tucked underneath their necks. Their heads are turned to the side. Both of them have black hair. The background has been partially roughed in, in pencil on the bare canvas.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Inuit Girls Sleeping, Pangnirtung

Date: 1970

Medium: oil on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 30.3 cm

Description: A small sketch of two girls lying in bed. The red blankets covering an imaginary bed are tucked underneath their necks. Their heads are turned to the side. Both of them have black hair. The background has been partially roughed in, in pencil on the bare canvas.