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

Clearwater Lake

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Artist: William Hutchinson (1874 – 1918, Canadian)

Date: 1914

Medium: oil on paperboard

Catalogue Number: HuW.02.01

Description: In the foreground is a small lake coming from the left side, a man is working on a canoe on the shore. Grass and rocks dominate the foreground, forest behind. The centre of the painting is dominated by a mountain with snow-covered mountain range behind.

Artist: William Hutchinson (1874 – 1918, Canadian)

Title: Clearwater Lake

Date: 1914

Medium: oil on paperboard

Dimensions: 119.5 x 80.1 cm

Description: In the foreground is a small lake coming from the left side, a man is working on a canoe on the shore. Grass and rocks dominate the foreground, forest behind. The centre of the painting is dominated by a mountain with snow-covered mountain range behind.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; figure; man; forest; canoe

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Hutchinson, Winnipeg, 1994

Catalogue Number: HuW.02.01

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Figures on the Sand II

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Artist: Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts (1871 – 1927, American)

Date: c. 1920

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: RoE.02.01

Description: Purchased by Mrs. Russell Robb, 1927. See RoE.02.02 for more info.

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Artist: Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts (1871 – 1927, American)

Title: Figures on the Sand II

Date: c. 1920

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 24.3 x 49.8 cm

Description: Purchased by Mrs. Russell Robb, 1927. See RoE.02.02 for more info.

Subject: landscape; ocean; figure; child; group

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

Catalogue Number: RoE.02.01

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

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Jim Brewster

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Artist: D Konda

Date: 1945 – 1965

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: KdD.02.01

Description: Portrait of Jim Brewster

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Artist: D Konda

Title: Jim Brewster

Date: 1945 – 1965

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 70.5 x 52.5 cm

Description: Portrait of Jim Brewster

Subject: Portrait; Male; Figure; Jim Brewster

Credit: Gift of Joe A. Brewster, Banff, 1980

Catalogue Number: KdD.02.01

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Margaret Simpson posing

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of Margaret Simpson posing on skates on frozen Vermillion Lakes - Tunnel Mountain and Mount Rundle in background

Date Range: [ca. 1920-1950]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 3 / PA - 349

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 3 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Various Views of Banff and Area

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 3 / PA - 349

GMD: Photograph

Date Range: [ca. 1920-1950]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of Margaret Simpson posing on skates on frozen Vermillion Lakes - Tunnel Mountain and Mount Rundle in background

Name Access: Simpson, Margaret

Subject Access: Figure skating; Mountains; Skating; Simpson Sisters; Winter

Geographic Access: Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Margaret Simpson skating

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of Margaret Simpson skating on frozen Vermillion Lakes - Tunnel Mountain and Mount Rundle in background

Date Range: [ca. 1920-19540]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 3 / PA - 346

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph

1 image

Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 3 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Various Views of Banff and Area

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 3 / PA - 346

GMD: Photograph

Date Range: [ca. 1920-19540]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of Margaret Simpson skating on frozen Vermillion Lakes - Tunnel Mountain and Mount Rundle in background

Name Access: Simpson, Margaret

Subject Access: Figure skating; Mountains; Skating; Simpson Sisters; Winter

Geographic Access: Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Mary Simpson skating

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of Mary Simpson skating on frozen Vermillion Lake - Tunnel Mountain and Mount Rundle in background

Date Range: [ca. 1920-1950]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 3 / PA - 347

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph

1 image

Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 3 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Various Views of Banff and Area

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 3 / PA - 347

GMD: Photograph

Date Range: [ca. 1920-1950]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of Mary Simpson skating on frozen Vermillion Lake - Tunnel Mountain and Mount Rundle in background

Name Access: Simpson, Mary (Hallock)

Subject Access: Figure skating; Mountains; Skating; Simpson Sisters; Winter

Geographic Access: Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Moccasin Seller

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Artist: Cornelius David Krieghoff (1815 – 1872, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1878

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: KrC.02.01

Description: General colour: grey. A heavily cloaked figure wearing snow shoes and carrying a basket on her back from her forehead and with mocassins clasped in her right hand, trudges to the right in front of chunks of snow covered ice. In the distance on the left is an embankment with a flag flying at the top…

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Artist: Cornelius David Krieghoff (1815 – 1872, Canadian)

Title: Moccasin Seller

Date: prior to 1878

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 26.3 x 21.8 cm

Description: General colour: grey. A heavily cloaked figure wearing snow shoes and carrying a basket on her back from her forehead and with mocassins clasped in her right hand, trudges to the right in front of chunks of snow covered ice. In the distance on the left is an embankment with a flag flying at the top. The sky is grey with a patch of blue in the upper left area.

Subject: figure, female; winter

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971

Catalogue Number: KrC.02.01

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Pete Painting, Pilot Mountain

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

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas on cardboard

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.293

Description: View of a lightly wooded field with a large blue mountain in the lefthand background. The foreground contains a grass-covered field (coloured in tans, ochre, red-brown and grey-brown) with trees scattered about. The foliage of the trees is coloured yellow, ochre and red-brown. Four of the tallest t…

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

Title: Pete Painting, Pilot Mountain

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas on cardboard

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: View of a lightly wooded field with a large blue mountain in the lefthand background. The foreground contains a grass-covered field (coloured in tans, ochre, red-brown and grey-brown) with trees scattered about. The foliage of the trees is coloured yellow, ochre and red-brown. Four of the tallest trees fill the righthand side of the picture. A small figure (clothed in black) sits sketching near the lower left corner. (The paint in this corner is in bad condition.) The large background mountain is coloured medium blue at the top, with lower slopes of green. Areas of loose rock are sketched in near the centre of the mountain; These small areas are brown-grey with touches of orange indicating (larch?) trees. The sky is light blue.