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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1955
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.804
Description
Ten small drawings of different activities occurring. 1) three people are walking over a hill with a couple of animals, 2) a group of people appear to be travelling in a convoy with a horse dragging goods behind it, 3) a group of people on horses moving across the land, 4) a person on a horse that …
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1955
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
21.3 x 27.7 cm
Description
Ten small drawings of different activities occurring. 1) three people are walking over a hill with a couple of animals, 2) a group of people appear to be travelling in a convoy with a horse dragging goods behind it, 3) a group of people on horses moving across the land, 4) a person on a horse that is pulling supplies are coming up over a hill, there are tipis off in the background, 5) a group in a wagon follow behind another heading towards the mountains, 6) possibly a small hut with a person, and there is a hide stretched out on poles, 7) a group of people have assembled in an open area outdoors, 8) a person who appears to have a some sort of head ornament on is preparing to shoot an arrow with their bow, 9) a wooden drying rack with meat hanging from it, in front of it there looks like two people are sitting on the ground, and 10) a group of huts lined up near trees, there appears to be smoke coming out of ventilation areas on the roof. verso: a sketch of the 1955 Christmas card, another boxed off drawing of a person appearing to be playing a drum, a drawing that has some similarities to “Seven Teepees” (though completed about 20 years earlier, and a final boxed off drawing of a native man wearing a headdress.
Subject
tanning
hide
meat
meat drying
wagon
horse
people
hut
bow and arrow
tipi
headdress
Christmas card
moose
bear
deer
squirrel
man
woman
painting
easel
canvas
paint brush
music
drum
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.804
Images
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