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Smoking the Peace Pipe to the Moon
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwis.12.02
- Date
- 1967
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.12.02
- Description
- General Colour: blue. A man in yellow sits facing right at the lower left side of the canvas. A tree is behind him to the left. A evergreen is in the lower right corner. Two clouds sit upper center. A raining sun is right of center. The background is blue with diagonal markings.
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- Title
- Smoking the Peace Pipe to the Moon
- Date
- 1967
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.6 x 50.8 cm
- Description
- General Colour: blue. A man in yellow sits facing right at the lower left side of the canvas. A tree is behind him to the left. A evergreen is in the lower right corner. Two clouds sit upper center. A raining sun is right of center. The background is blue with diagonal markings.
- Subject
- figure, male
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Sitting Wind, 1967
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.12.02
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How the Beaver got His Tail
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmtw.02.01
- Artist
- Wayne Matchatis
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on canvas on cardboard
- Catalogue Number
- MtW.02.01
- Description
- Symbolic s-curve drawing of the evolution of how the beaver got his tail, black on white, some of the forms are filled in solid.
- Artist
- Wayne Matchatis
- Title
- How the Beaver got His Tail
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on canvas on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 30 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Symbolic s-curve drawing of the evolution of how the beaver got his tail, black on white, some of the forms are filled in solid.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MtW.02.01
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Custer's Last Stand
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmud.02.01
- Artist
- David Muskego
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- MuD.02.01
- Description
- Dominant yellow/rust/blue on white ground symbolic painting; initialled brc DM/72 and written on back brace Custer's Last Stand (symbolic) by David Muskego, LeGoff Reserve, Alta. in Catharine's handwriting; also 109 Frank Kaquitts.
- Artist
- David Muskego
- Title
- Custer's Last Stand
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 20.6 x 45.8 cm
- Description
- Dominant yellow/rust/blue on white ground symbolic painting; initialled brc DM/72 and written on back brace Custer's Last Stand (symbolic) by David Muskego, LeGoff Reserve, Alta. in Catharine's handwriting; also 109 Frank Kaquitts.
- Subject
- symbolism
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MuD.02.01
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The Messengers
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- Artist
- David Muskego
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- MuD.02.02
- Description
- Label removed from back said The Messengers - The Great Eagle Spirit talks to the Medicine man at the centre. He then speaks to the messengers at his left and right who guide him to carry the message and power of the Great Spirit to the people. David Muskego Age: 18, LeGoff Reserve signed brc 72' D…
- Artist
- David Muskego
- Title
- The Messengers
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 50.7 cm
- Description
- Label removed from back said The Messengers - The Great Eagle Spirit talks to the Medicine man at the centre. He then speaks to the messengers at his left and right who guide him to carry the message and power of the Great Spirit to the people. David Muskego Age: 18, LeGoff Reserve signed brc 72' D. Muskego.
- Subject
- symbolism
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MuD.02.02
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Spirit of the Hunt
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmur.02.02
- Artist
- Robert Muskego
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- MuR.02.02
- Description
- Symbolic painting on white ground with dominant, bright colours of black, yellow, blue; signed Robert Muskego '73 brc; $25.00 pencilled on back of board. Interior white fish shape contains human profile with yellow eye - fish eye also; note foot, spear and bearpaw snowshoe; fish is inside large bla…
- Artist
- Robert Muskego
- Title
- Spirit of the Hunt
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 45.5 x 35.4 cm
- Description
- Symbolic painting on white ground with dominant, bright colours of black, yellow, blue; signed Robert Muskego '73 brc; $25.00 pencilled on back of board. Interior white fish shape contains human profile with yellow eye - fish eye also; note foot, spear and bearpaw snowshoe; fish is inside large black animal - bear?; yellow arc upper left of painting represents bow being strung; blue represents streams and lakes and rust earth; small amount of red symbolizes blood of animal - this explanation was given to Catharine and Jon Whyte when Muskego was visiting them in Banff.
- Subject
- symbolism
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MuR.02.02
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.03
- Description
- Stylized symbolic? drawing. Predominate colours, yellow, brown, orange, a little blue a little red.
- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Dimensions
- 19; 38 x 28; 45.5 cm
- Description
- Stylized symbolic? drawing. Predominate colours, yellow, brown, orange, a little blue a little red.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.03
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.10
- Description
- Two central images are painted in shades of light blue, yellow and red. A bear rendered in lines and shapes faces the viewer at the bottom right. A bird-like figure sits at the upper left.
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Dimensions
- 56.25 x 76 cm
- Description
- Two central images are painted in shades of light blue, yellow and red. A bear rendered in lines and shapes faces the viewer at the bottom right. A bird-like figure sits at the upper left.
- Subject
- mythological
- animal, bear;
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.10
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Inside the Red Rain
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcls.12.01
- Date
- 1983
- Medium
- acrylic; pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ClS.12.01
- Description
- A range of blue/grey mountains across centre, sky has yellow, pink, blue shades, all light, an eagles head, white with red forehead and throat, is on top of mountains, three broad red stripes in right off centre, two pink arches are in lower left of picture, another arch in white is in the dark are…
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- Title
- Inside the Red Rain
- Date
- 1983
- Medium
- acrylic; pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 38.5 x 57.0 cm
- Description
- A range of blue/grey mountains across centre, sky has yellow, pink, blue shades, all light, an eagles head, white with red forehead and throat, is on top of mountains, three broad red stripes in right off centre, two pink arches are in lower left of picture, another arch in white is in the dark area brc. Exhibitions: Peter Whyte Gallery, February 22 - March 27, 1983. On back: Inside the red rain (Mexican oppresion) signed '83.
- Subject
- landscape
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Scott Christopher Clark, Fergus, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- ClS.12.01
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- Date
- c. 1966
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.01
- Title
- Warfire
- Date
- c. 1966
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 58.6 x 48.5 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.01
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Some Symbolic Tale?
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactjaw.02.01
- Artist
- Walter Janvier
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- JaW.02.01
- Description
- A circular tale of teepees and Indigenous headdresses, one large figure in red and blue and yellow in the top left hand corner.
- Artist
- Walter Janvier
- Title
- Some Symbolic Tale?
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- A circular tale of teepees and Indigenous headdresses, one large figure in red and blue and yellow in the top left hand corner.
- Subject
- mythological
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- JaW.02.01
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