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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1925 – 1966
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.825
Description
There are four separate images being depicted on the paper. The first in the top portion of the paper is a group of twelve tipis at the base of a foothill. The hills roll up behind them, with the Rocky Mountains in the background. There are some people by the tipis, but a group of three people in t…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1925 – 1966
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
19.3 x 25.6 cm
Description
There are four separate images being depicted on the paper. The first in the top portion of the paper is a group of twelve tipis at the base of a foothill. The hills roll up behind them, with the Rocky Mountains in the background. There are some people by the tipis, but a group of three people in the foreground entering the area. In the second drawing on the bottom half of the paper near the left edge is a drawing of a tipi with trees in front of it and a group a person standing in front of the opening to the tipi. In the background there are mountains. In the third drawing to the right of the second is a group of people travelling in a horse caravan. Above them there is a rough sketch of what could be another tipi. In the fourth drawing in the bottom half of the paper near the right edge there is a man driving a wagon. You can see that he is holding the reins, but the team that is leading cannot be seen. verso: in the TLC it says “K22-2” and in the TRC “Flecn 339”
Subject
tipi
teepee
Indigenous
people
man
trees
foothills
mountains
wagon
horses
reigns
team
caravan
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.825
Images
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Untitled [Five Men taking a Break]

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Artist
Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)
Date
c. 1930
Medium
gouache; conté on card
Catalogue Number
GyH.07.01
Description
Five men are sitting in a group on logs and stumps. All are dressed as if they might be cowboys. Three men on the right appear to be talking with one another and a second group of two men on the left appear to be having a second conversation. In the foreground between the two small groups are so…
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Artist
Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)
Title
Untitled [Five Men taking a Break]
Date
c. 1930
Medium
gouache; conté on card
Dimensions
28 x 38 cm
Description
Five men are sitting in a group on logs and stumps. All are dressed as if they might be cowboys. Three men on the right appear to be talking with one another and a second group of two men on the left appear to be having a second conversation. In the foreground between the two small groups are some cooking utensils, frying pans and tin cans. A creek on the left edge of the painting flows down between the men. Two tree trunks are on either side of the painting. A man on the left is leaning on one of them. In the background is a log cabin and a fence that runs in front of it.
Subject
figures
male
cowboys
architecture
cabin
landscape
creek
foothills
trees
Credit
Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997
Catalogue Number
GyH.07.01
Images
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