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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1938
Medium
graphite on paper card
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.445
Description
Pencil drawings of male figures, caricatured as round and portly, on the Hamburg-Amerika ship menu card. One drawing shows a hand gripping the receiver of a telephone and a [speech bubble with the words] HALLO/ ACHTUNG inside.[The drawings cover the black printed text and decorative border that rea…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1938
Medium
graphite on paper card
Dimensions
25.0 x 19.0 cm
Description
Pencil drawings of male figures, caricatured as round and portly, on the Hamburg-Amerika ship menu card. One drawing shows a hand gripping the receiver of a telephone and a [speech bubble with the words] HALLO/ ACHTUNG inside.[The drawings cover the black printed text and decorative border that reads] HAMBURG- / AMERIKA / LINIE[Verso: light blue typed text describes a menu for Saturday, January 8, 1938. See pictures for details.]Verso drawings of two male figures helping a ship come ashore onto a tropical coastline.
Subject
Hamburg-Amerika Linie
German
male figures
ship
menu
tropical
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.445
Images
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