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Grandma Takes to Skiing

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1931 – 1934
Medium
graphite; watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.282
Description
Watercolour and pencil drawing of an older woman wearing green pants, red coat and blue scarf and mittens occupies the foreground. She has just skied down a hill, leaving six fallen skiers in her wake. There are two people on the top right horizon watching. Bottom left: GRANDMA TAKES TO SKIING.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Grandma Takes to Skiing
Date
1931 – 1934
Medium
graphite; watercolour on paper
Dimensions
29.0 x 22.5 cm
Description
Watercolour and pencil drawing of an older woman wearing green pants, red coat and blue scarf and mittens occupies the foreground. She has just skied down a hill, leaving six fallen skiers in her wake. There are two people on the top right horizon watching. Bottom left: GRANDMA TAKES TO SKIING.
Subject
grandma
skiing
humour
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.282
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1925 – 1930
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.02.079
Description
An oil painting, divided into three sections, that show the development of a humorous ski accident. In the first, left-most section, the silhouette of a woman on skis on top of a snowy hill is shown. In the middle section, the woman is skiing down the hill. The last, right-most section shows a ski …
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1925 – 1930
Medium
oil on canvas
Description
An oil painting, divided into three sections, that show the development of a humorous ski accident. In the first, left-most section, the silhouette of a woman on skis on top of a snowy hill is shown. In the middle section, the woman is skiing down the hill. The last, right-most section shows a ski and poles sticking out from the snow while onlookers gather at the top of the hill.
Subject
humour
ski
hill
Grandma
triptych
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.02.079
Images
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1925 – 1966
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.689
Description
sketch of WyP.02.079 Pete’s Grandma’s Ski Accident
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1925 – 1966
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
24.9 x 20.0 cm
Description
sketch of WyP.02.079 Pete’s Grandma’s Ski Accident
Subject
grandma
ski
accident
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.689
Images
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1930 – 1940
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.806
Description
In the drawing on the top half of the paper there are four figures in a line moving across a landscape with a mountain range infront of them. The drawing in the lower half is broken into three boxes, the first has what looks like Pete’s grandmother going up over a hill with her skis in the air and …
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1930 – 1940
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
21.3 x 26.4 cm
Description
In the drawing on the top half of the paper there are four figures in a line moving across a landscape with a mountain range infront of them. The drawing in the lower half is broken into three boxes, the first has what looks like Pete’s grandmother going up over a hill with her skis in the air and her poles supporting her, while in the second drawing there is a skier going down a hill, with another at the top behind them, and in the background there is a mountain, and in the the final drawing it is a male figure (potentially Peter) on a set of skis holding poles with Pete’s grandma standing beside him on her own skis with poles looking up at him.
Subject
ski
skiing
jump
poles
scarf
grandma
man
woman
snow
winter
mountains
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.806
Images
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