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Eskimo Sea Dreams
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactnep.04.01
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- NeP.04.01
- Description
- Background is blue green variegated light and dark. On this are various black shapes of men and animals. The top part of the picture has 4 men in a boat, 2 with oars, one casting a spear which is touching the head of a walrus, there are 2 walrus heads. A long curving line runs along the picture,…
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- Title
- Eskimo Sea Dreams
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 49.5 x 60.5 cm
- Description
- Background is blue green variegated light and dark. On this are various black shapes of men and animals. The top part of the picture has 4 men in a boat, 2 with oars, one casting a spear which is touching the head of a walrus, there are 2 walrus heads. A long curving line runs along the picture, below this image is another scene. An animal/man with horns, holding a spear and horns is facing another animal/man, behind them a small bird. They are all standing on a large, black whale. brc artist's carver's chop in red and Dorset chop in black.
- Subject
- activity, hunting
- fishing
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- NeP.04.01
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- Artist
- Wilfred Lambert
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaW.04.06
- Description
- The bottom seventh is horizontal lines running from edge to edge, black lines on brown. Bottom edge 7.5 from right is a red brown tumb shape. Three tall spires, each with a red brown circular shape near top, woodgrain-like lines inside spires. An overall texture rest of picture.
- Artist
- Wilfred Lambert
- Title
- Silence
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Dimensions
- 60.6 x 41.8 cm
- Description
- The bottom seventh is horizontal lines running from edge to edge, black lines on brown. Bottom edge 7.5 from right is a red brown tumb shape. Three tall spires, each with a red brown circular shape near top, woodgrain-like lines inside spires. An overall texture rest of picture.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Michael Laub, Banff, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- LaW.04.06
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Two-Faced Sea Spirit
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacteeg.04.02
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- EeG.04.02
- Description
- Bold, almost all black image centered on paper. Facing left the spirit has two faces on an animal-part-fish.Bottom reads “Two-faced Sea Spirit Stone Cut 47/50 Cape Dorset Baffin Island ‘60 Eejyvudluk” Back reads “205 DOR/L 1960 - “7””Red chop denotes Egevadluq Ragee, black igloo chop denotes West …
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- Title
- Two-Faced Sea Spirit
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.2 x 37.5 cm
- Description
- Bold, almost all black image centered on paper. Facing left the spirit has two faces on an animal-part-fish.Bottom reads “Two-faced Sea Spirit Stone Cut 47/50 Cape Dorset Baffin Island ‘60 Eejyvudluk” Back reads “205 DOR/L 1960 - “7””Red chop denotes Egevadluq Ragee, black igloo chop denotes West Baffin Eskimo Coop.Since only two chops are present, this tells us that the artist, Egevadluq, was the artist as well as the printer.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- EeG.04.02
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Woman in the Sea
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacteeg.04.01
- Date
- 1977
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- EeG.04.01
- Description
- A mermaid, happy face with arms outstretched, has a blue fish-scale body, fish tail. She is enclosed in a ribbon of bark textured seaweed? black with yellow tinge.
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- Title
- Woman in the Sea
- Date
- 1977
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 42; 44 x 50; 50 cm
- Description
- A mermaid, happy face with arms outstretched, has a blue fish-scale body, fish tail. She is enclosed in a ribbon of bark textured seaweed? black with yellow tinge.
- Subject
- mythological
- female
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- EeG.04.01
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