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Building a Log House
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- Artist
- Grace Carswell
- Date
- 1955
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CaG.05.01
- Description
- A primitive style painting of a pioneer scene, a log house building, with much activity around it. Lush trees in background, blue sky centre top, a blue river runs bottom left corner to centre right. Off centre right stands a red coated man with hat and long barrelled rifle talking to another man…
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- Artist
- Grace Carswell
- Title
- Building a Log House
- Date
- 1955
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.8 x 22.7 cm
- Description
- A primitive style painting of a pioneer scene, a log house building, with much activity around it. Lush trees in background, blue sky centre top, a blue river runs bottom left corner to centre right. Off centre right stands a red coated man with hat and long barrelled rifle talking to another man dressed in buckskin, also with a long barrelled rifle
- Subject
- landscape
- historical
- genre
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- CaG.05.01
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Long History, Lake Louise
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwsj.13.01
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- photograph; letraset on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WsJ.13.01
- Description
- A panaramic photograph by W>J> Oliver, May 1926, handcoloured with added inscriptions by John Will. The photograph is of a group of people posed in front of Lake Louise. The photograph has water damage left side. Originally titled Fourth District Rotary International Annual Conference - Lake Lou…
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- Title
- Long History, Lake Louise
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- photograph; letraset on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.5 x 88.6 cm
- Description
- A panaramic photograph by W>J> Oliver, May 1926, handcoloured with added inscriptions by John Will. The photograph is of a group of people posed in front of Lake Louise. The photograph has water damage left side. Originally titled Fourth District Rotary International Annual Conference - Lake Louise, May 1926 - photo W>J> Oliver, Calgary (c). Letraset inscriptions top centre added by artist of newspaper article from May 14, 1926 and May 15, 1926, and John Will Oct. 1987
- Subject
- historical
- group
- Credit
- Purchased from John Will, Calgary, 1989
- Catalogue Number
- WsJ.13.01
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- Date
- 1996
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- IsS.04.01
- Description
- In the background of the image there are a group of men behind a wire fence. These men are being held in an internment camp. The men are wearing hats and are displayed in black and white. In the foreground in the colour brown is a side view of a man and beside it is the same man with a hat on from …
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- Title
- The New World
- Date
- 1996
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 57.0 x 76.5 cm
- Description
- In the background of the image there are a group of men behind a wire fence. These men are being held in an internment camp. The men are wearing hats and are displayed in black and white. In the foreground in the colour brown is a side view of a man and beside it is the same man with a hat on from the front view. The images in the back can be seen threw the larger images in the foreground. In the cc the word Kripak is written in a pale light brown color.
- Credit
- Purchased from Sophia Isajiw, Turlock, USA, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- IsS.04.01
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- Date
- later than 1886
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- MrT.02.01
- Description
- General colour: green, brown. Central image is a wooden grave marker stuck at the end of a mound of dirt left of center. It reads Sacred to A.R. Underwood. Died July 31, 1886. It is shadowed by a tree whose double trunk is at the right side. Behind is woods, dark trees and light underbrush.
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- Title
- Pioneer Grave
- Date
- later than 1886
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 16.5 x 27.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: green, brown. Central image is a wooden grave marker stuck at the end of a mound of dirt left of center. It reads Sacred to A.R. Underwood. Died July 31, 1886. It is shadowed by a tree whose double trunk is at the right side. Behind is woods, dark trees and light underbrush.
- Subject
- landscape, forest
- historical
- Credit
- Purchased from Bashford's Corner Ltd, Calgary, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- MrT.02.01
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- Date
- 1999
- Medium
- mixed media on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- PoJ.13.01
- Description
- Down the centre of the piece there is a column of four historical photographs of Indigenous people participating in the sundance ritual. Different colours and patterns border each photograph on either side of them. On each side of the piece there are painted areas or strips. Red paint looks like…
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- Title
- Sacrifice
- Date
- 1999
- Medium
- mixed media on canvas
- Dimensions
- 122.0 x 91.5 cm
- Description
- Down the centre of the piece there is a column of four historical photographs of Indigenous people participating in the sundance ritual. Different colours and patterns border each photograph on either side of them. On each side of the piece there are painted areas or strips. Red paint looks like blood running down the image. A quill is attached to the painting in the top left corner. A bone or tooth is attached to the canvas in the top right corner. The left side of the piece is painted in red tones, the left in green. In the bottom right corner there are some pictograph-like drawings of people and a dog.
- Credit
- Purchased from Jane Ash Poitras, Edmonton, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- PoJ.13.01
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