topic:"figure" found 17 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

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Artist: Peter or Catharine Whyte

Date: 1926

Medium: conté on conte paper

Catalogue Number: Wy?.03.063

Description: A beautifully rendered drawing of a standing male figure model. “March 1st 1926” written in TRC.

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Artist: Peter or Catharine Whyte

Title: Untitled

Date: 1926

Medium: conté on conte paper

Dimensions: 63.5 x 48.0 cm

Description: A beautifully rendered drawing of a standing male figure model. “March 1st 1926” written in TRC.

Subject: figure; male

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

Catalogue Number: Wy?.03.063

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928

Medium: conté on brown paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.016

Description: A well rendered drawing of a standing male life model with hands behind head. His bent arm and elbow conceals his face, his back is to the viewer and he is lunging forward but away from the viewer with his left foot. He has a flexed right leg. He is turned 3/4 away from viewer.There are various …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1928

Medium: conté on brown paper

Dimensions: 65.5 x 49.5 cm

Description: A well rendered drawing of a standing male life model with hands behind head. His bent arm and elbow conceals his face, his back is to the viewer and he is lunging forward but away from the viewer with his left foot. He has a flexed right leg. He is turned 3/4 away from viewer.There are various scribble and doodles around edges.

Subject: figure; male; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.016

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Drum Dancer

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Artist: Peter Pitseolak (1902 – 1973, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: stonecut on paper

Catalogue Number: PiP.04.01

Description: A figure clad in a parka, holding two sticks stands in the lower two thirds of the picture. Above hangs a large round drum.

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Artist: Peter Pitseolak (1902 – 1973, Canadian)

Title: Drum Dancer

Date: 1970

Medium: stonecut on paper

Dimensions: 52.6 x 29.7 cm

Description: A figure clad in a parka, holding two sticks stands in the lower two thirds of the picture. Above hangs a large round drum.

Subject: figure; male

Credit: Gift of Unknown, 1968

Catalogue Number: PiP.04.01

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Two Indians

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Artist: James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)

Date: 1977

Medium: wood engraving on paper

Catalogue Number: SmJ.04.08

Description: Two people dressed in outerwear, are standing facing to the right, the one in front has a cigarette in his left hand, right hand in pocket, the other has his hands behind his back, image in black ink. Initialed JAS in block brc: in pencil from l: Two Indians 27/50 James Agrell Smith.

Artist: James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)

Title: Two Indians

Date: 1977

Medium: wood engraving on paper

Dimensions: 19.7;21.0 x 12.3;14.2 cm

Description: Two people dressed in outerwear, are standing facing to the right, the one in front has a cigarette in his left hand, right hand in pocket, the other has his hands behind his back, image in black ink. Initialed JAS in block brc: in pencil from l: Two Indians 27/50 James Agrell Smith.

Subject: figure; male; group; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1986

Catalogue Number: SmJ.04.08

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Artist: Peter or Catharine Whyte

Date: 1930 – 1966

Medium: conté on paper

Catalogue Number: Wy?.03.131

Description: A detailed anatomy drawing of a male figure from the neck down found inside a folded portfolio. The drawing is focusing structure of the muscles in the body. The model has their left hand raised above his head. Below the work is says “School of Leonardo”. Beside the drawing to the left there is two…

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Artist: Peter or Catharine Whyte

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930 – 1966

Medium: conté on paper

Dimensions: 58.0 x 76.5 cm

Description: A detailed anatomy drawing of a male figure from the neck down found inside a folded portfolio. The drawing is focusing structure of the muscles in the body. The model has their left hand raised above his head. Below the work is says “School of Leonardo”. Beside the drawing to the left there is two lines of pencil running down the height of the portfolio, near one of the folds. On the left fold there is a Christmas tag that has two dogs, a woman in a blue dress, with a snowy scene behind them. On the tag it reads “From Gwen with love To Catharine + Pete I’m appallingly late! But we have had a fair amount of illness here + that does delay things!”On the verso of drawing it says “School of Leonardo L3.10x 132.58”, and in the BRC “8.C8”