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Shorty White-Grass A-PO-TO-YE-SEE
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactkiw.03.02
- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KiW.03.02
- Description
- A very brightly coloured pastel drawing. The portrait of the man dominates almost the entire picture. A dark blue background behind his head, the face is drawin in good detail, black braids to the front. A red undershirt, yellow vest with white/red/purple diamond designs over shoulders. A necklace …
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- Title
- Shorty White-Grass A-PO-TO-YE-SEE
- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 49.8 x 38.0 cm
- Description
- A very brightly coloured pastel drawing. The portrait of the man dominates almost the entire picture. A dark blue background behind his head, the face is drawin in good detail, black braids to the front. A red undershirt, yellow vest with white/red/purple diamond designs over shoulders. A necklace of black-tipped weasel tails and long, black horse tails. He is wearing a brown (buckskin ?) shirt. On the back of the heavy card backing: Shorty White-Grass A-PO-TO-YE-SEE Blackfeet Tribe of Browning Mont. in blue; in black: #54.
- Subject
- portrait, male
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- KiW.03.02
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Chief Hector Crawler
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.017
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.017
- Description
- Colour: grey, yellow, red, black. The head and upper torso of an Indigenous man wearing a large feather headdress and a beaded buckskin jacket. A white beaded neckpiece hangs down in front. The background in grey.
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- Title
- Chief Hector Crawler
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.5 x 63.0 cm
- Description
- Colour: grey, yellow, red, black. The head and upper torso of an Indigenous man wearing a large feather headdress and a beaded buckskin jacket. A white beaded neckpiece hangs down in front. The background in grey.
- Subject
- portrait, male
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.017
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Heavy Shield- “To-so-ko-ya-wo-tan” Blackfoot Chief
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmig.03.03
- Date
- 1938 – 1938
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiG.03.03
- Description
- A first nations male sits with his back against the left edge of the image with his arms resting on his thighs. In his hands he holds a pipe. This man is wearing a head band with a feather at the back. He is sitting in a chair, and wears beaded cuffs and has a small horse around his neck with ot…
- Title
- Heavy Shield- “To-so-ko-ya-wo-tan” Blackfoot Chief
- Date
- 1938 – 1938
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 61.0 x 41.0 cm
- Description
- A first nations male sits with his back against the left edge of the image with his arms resting on his thighs. In his hands he holds a pipe. This man is wearing a head band with a feather at the back. He is sitting in a chair, and wears beaded cuffs and has a small horse around his neck with other neck adornment. The image is black and white.
- Subject
- portrait
- male
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of C. Gardner Lane Jr., Scarborough, USA, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- MiG.03.03
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Untitled [Native Man]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactchg.03.01
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ChG.03.01
- Description
- A portrait of an Indigenous man. His hair is grey and worn in two braids. He is wearing several strings of beads around his neck. His shirt or tunic is purple. A purple and orange checked blanket is wrapped around his shoulders. It is visible in both the bottom left corner and the bottom right…
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- Title
- Untitled [Native Man]
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Description
- A portrait of an Indigenous man. His hair is grey and worn in two braids. He is wearing several strings of beads around his neck. His shirt or tunic is purple. A purple and orange checked blanket is wrapped around his shoulders. It is visible in both the bottom left corner and the bottom right corner. Behind his shoulder on the left, a tipi is visible. Smoke is coming out of the top of it. Brown, craggy mountains are visible across the horizon. The sky moves up from yellow to green to blue. Clouds at the top of the image are orange.
- Subject
- portrait
- male
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Doris Gammon, Banff, 2000
- Catalogue Number
- ChG.03.01
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- Artist
- Earl F. Spencer
- Date
- 1959
- Medium
- oil on canvas on board
- Catalogue Number
- SpE.02.05
- Description
- Portrait of a Sioux man wearing a large headdress, and multi-coloured beaded jacket.
- Artist
- Earl F. Spencer
- Title
- A Sioux Chief
- Date
- 1959
- Medium
- oil on canvas on board
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 25.0 cm
- Description
- Portrait of a Sioux man wearing a large headdress, and multi-coloured beaded jacket.
- Subject
- portrait, male
- Indigenous
- Sioux
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- SpE.02.05
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Chief Sitting Bull
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactspe.02.03
- Artist
- Earl F. Spencer
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas on board
- Catalogue Number
- SpE.02.03
- Description
- Study of an man sitting on a rock, he holds a pipe across his knees, his hair is braided and he wears one feather in it.
- Artist
- Earl F. Spencer
- Title
- Chief Sitting Bull
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- oil on canvas on board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- Study of an man sitting on a rock, he holds a pipe across his knees, his hair is braided and he wears one feather in it.
- Subject
- figure, male
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- SpE.02.03
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Lukasie Angiyou, Povungnituk
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.297
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.297
- Description
- Facial portrait of a boy. The boy is smiling. His skin is coloured red-brown with tints of red blended in. The boy's features are defined with brown paint. The boy has a cap of blue-black hair. His shoulders are visible and he is wearing a blue shirt with a vest of light grey-tan. Touches of ochre …
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- Title
- Lukasie Angiyou, Povungnituk
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Facial portrait of a boy. The boy is smiling. His skin is coloured red-brown with tints of red blended in. The boy's features are defined with brown paint. The boy has a cap of blue-black hair. His shoulders are visible and he is wearing a blue shirt with a vest of light grey-tan. Touches of ochre blended into the vest help separate it from the background.
- Subject
- portrait, male
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.297
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Joseph Amarualik
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.299
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.299
- Description
- Facial portrait of a man wearing a fur jacket. The man's face has close-set eyes and strong jaws. His solemn gaze does not seem to be directed at the viewer. His face is coloured red-brown with tints of red and violet-grey blended in. The figure's face is outlined in black and his short hair is bl…
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- Title
- Joseph Amarualik
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Facial portrait of a man wearing a fur jacket. The man's face has close-set eyes and strong jaws. His solemn gaze does not seem to be directed at the viewer. His face is coloured red-brown with tints of red and violet-grey blended in. The figure's face is outlined in black and his short hair is black and brown. The man's fur collar is coloured light tan with touches of ochre. The collar has white and yellow highlights, and shadows of brown and grey-brown. The background is light grey-tan.
- Subject
- portrait, male
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.299
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.03.04
- Description
- Colour: black on white. At viewer’s left and forefront, a man,is facing left and sitting on an oil drum. He is is wearing a cap, shirt, jeans and cowboy boots and is playing a guitar. Behind the man and toward viewer’s right is a telephone pole with a figure of a man hanging from a rope. In the bac…
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- Title
- Just Playing
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 37.0 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. At viewer’s left and forefront, a man,is facing left and sitting on an oil drum. He is is wearing a cap, shirt, jeans and cowboy boots and is playing a guitar. Behind the man and toward viewer’s right is a telephone pole with a figure of a man hanging from a rope. In the background are a gentle range of hills.Au verso printed in pencil “JUST PLAYING”, rhtc “115” encircled, blhc “20” encircled with “25” on top
- Subject
- figures, male
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- StS.03.04
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- Date
- 1977
- Medium
- wood engraving on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SmJ.04.08
- Description
- Two people dressed in outerwear, are standing facing to the right, the one in front has a cigarette in his left hand, right hand in pocket, the other has his hands behind his back, image in black ink. Initialed JAS in block brc: in pencil from l: Two Indians 27/50 James Agrell Smith.
- Title
- Two Indians
- Date
- 1977
- Medium
- wood engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.7;21.0 x 12.3;14.2 cm
- Description
- Two people dressed in outerwear, are standing facing to the right, the one in front has a cigarette in his left hand, right hand in pocket, the other has his hands behind his back, image in black ink. Initialed JAS in block brc: in pencil from l: Two Indians 27/50 James Agrell Smith.
- Subject
- figure
- male
- group
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- SmJ.04.08
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