topic:"figure" found 4 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Description: Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are …

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Ghost Dance

Date: 1972

Medium: lithograph on paper

Dimensions: 39.3 x 59.5 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are three wide round bands going across the picture.

Subject: figure, male; group; mythological

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

Catalogue Number: StS.04.02

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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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Untitled [Chess Set]

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Artist: Robin Sturdy (1946 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: c. 1975

Medium: ceramic

Catalogue Number: StR.06.01

Description: This piece is a fantastical ceramic chess set made up of a village. Surrounding the actual chess board is a village of turreted, peaked and snow-covered buildings. White ghost-like figures stretch out of windows and are crowded on the balconies and terraces of the buildings in an attempt to see t…

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Artist: Robin Sturdy (1946 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [Chess Set]

Date: c. 1975

Medium: ceramic

Dimensions: chess set: 45.72; table: 45.72 x chess set: 71.12; table: 76.2 x chess set: 91.44; table: 101.6 cm

Description: This piece is a fantastical ceramic chess set made up of a village. Surrounding the actual chess board is a village of turreted, peaked and snow-covered buildings. White ghost-like figures stretch out of windows and are crowded on the balconies and terraces of the buildings in an attempt to see the chess match. The chess pieces resemble turtle-like animals standing upright and wearing armor. The chess board is textured and the height of it is varied in different places. The chess set is primarily brown, white and tan.

Subject: whimsey; chess set; figure; mythological; architecture; fantasy

Credit: Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2002

Catalogue Number: StR.06.01

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