topic:"lake" found 5 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Description: This square wall hanging has green and black stitching all around the edges and in the corners. In the light background the scene includes in the upper section a male with a bow and arrow aiming at a caribou. The middle section shows a woman with a child on her back and a male figure with an arm ra…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Family Caribou Hunt

Date: prior to 1962

Medium: wool; hide

Dimensions: 58.0 x 66.0 cm

Description: This square wall hanging has green and black stitching all around the edges and in the corners. In the light background the scene includes in the upper section a male with a bow and arrow aiming at a caribou. The middle section shows a woman with a child on her back and a male figure with an arm raised. Just right of the center is a tee pee. Above the tee pee area is another woman with two children. The bottom area shows a dog tied to a fixed peg in the ground and another figure working on the tee pee. All the image shapes have been cut out of fibre with the exception of the tee pee, it is made from skin. The overall colour in this wall hanging is yellow, black,green and off white.

Subject: figures; male; female; child; activity; hunting; animals; caribou; dog; architecture; teepee

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.07

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Jimmy Simpson's Cabin, the Octagon

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.311

Description: Large log cabin takes up most of the area, two trees to the right, one tree up left side, fireplace on side (left) of cabin, lake behind cabin, also mountains with snow, blue sky and one large cloud.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Jimmy Simpson's Cabin, the Octagon

Date: 1940 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Large log cabin takes up most of the area, two trees to the right, one tree up left side, fireplace on side (left) of cabin, lake behind cabin, also mountains with snow, blue sky and one large cloud.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake; architecture; rural

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.311

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Simpson's Cabin, Bow Glacier

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.321

Description: Shimmering small pond in centre foreground, surrounded by foliage, log cabin middle right, has a window with twelve panes, to the left of the cabin there is a small lake, glacier in background with two (streams) running down the side, grey clouds ulc, blue sky centre, mountain peak trc.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Simpson's Cabin, Bow Glacier

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Shimmering small pond in centre foreground, surrounded by foliage, log cabin middle right, has a window with twelve panes, to the left of the cabin there is a small lake, glacier in background with two (streams) running down the side, grey clouds ulc, blue sky centre, mountain peak trc.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake; architecture; rural

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.321

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Women and Children with Dogs

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Artist: Unknown

Date: prior to 1962

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.09

Description: A rectangular shaped wall hanging with a red border. The outer edge and the border between the red and the light yellow background is stitched with criss cross and straight stitches. Inside the light yellow background are women and children with dogs. The scene is set up in three tears. Along the u…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Women and Children with Dogs

Date: prior to 1962

Dimensions: 57.5 x 80.0 cm

Description: A rectangular shaped wall hanging with a red border. The outer edge and the border between the red and the light yellow background is stitched with criss cross and straight stitches. Inside the light yellow background are women and children with dogs. The scene is set up in three tears. Along the upper section on the left are two dogs, in the center there is a male, female and a child. On the far right is a teepee. The middle section includes a couple of dogs and a female with a child on her back. The bottom section showes two more dogs on the left, a male figure in the center and a small animal on the far right is being attacked by four birds. All of the figures and most of the animals are made from skin cut out shapes and are stitched on and detailed with black, yellow, blue, red and a light pink fiber thread. The outside red border is made up of six pieces that are attached to create the full border.

Subject: figure; male; female; child; animals; dogs; birds; caribou; architecture; teepee

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.09

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