Inuit Woman, Povungnituk
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- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.216
- Description
- An elderly woman peers off into the distance. She has wrinkled cheek bones and small pebble-like eyes. A colourful purple and blue scarf is wrapped around her head. A few tufts of hair protrude from her hat. Her sharp looking face is high contrast to the bare canvas background.
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- Title
- Inuit Woman, Povungnituk
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.3 x 22.8 cm
- Description
- An elderly woman peers off into the distance. She has wrinkled cheek bones and small pebble-like eyes. A colourful purple and blue scarf is wrapped around her head. A few tufts of hair protrude from her hat. Her sharp looking face is high contrast to the bare canvas background.
- Subject
- portrait, female
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.216
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Katharine Hepburn
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactspe.02.02
- Artist
- Earl F. Spencer
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas on board
- Catalogue Number
- SpE.02.02
- Description
- Portrait of Katharine Hepburn wearing a blue shirt, three quarter view of the right side of her face.
- Artist
- Earl F. Spencer
- Title
- Katharine Hepburn
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas on board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- Portrait of Katharine Hepburn wearing a blue shirt, three quarter view of the right side of her face.
- Subject
- portrait, female
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- SpE.02.02
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The Kelly Princess Beguiling Erin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactspe.02.01
- Artist
- Earl F. Spencer
- Date
- 1961
- Medium
- oil on canvas on board
- Catalogue Number
- SpE.02.01
- Description
- Portrait of a woman (Princess Grace?) painted against a blue background the image taken from the cover of LIFE magazine June 23, 1961. The Cover of LIFE magazine accompanies the portrait
- Artist
- Earl F. Spencer
- Title
- The Kelly Princess Beguiling Erin
- Date
- 1961
- Medium
- oil on canvas on board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- Portrait of a woman (Princess Grace?) painted against a blue background the image taken from the cover of LIFE magazine June 23, 1961. The Cover of LIFE magazine accompanies the portrait
- Subject
- portrait, female
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- SpE.02.01
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Lizzie Irquasiak, Samisa's Daughter
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.298
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.298
- Description
- Facial portrait of a young woman under the hood of her parka. The woman is gazing at the viewer surrounded by the fur trim of her jacket's hood. The woman's face is coloured red-brown with tints of brown and red blended in. She also has short black hair. The fur trim of her hood is coloured light …
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- Title
- Lizzie Irquasiak, Samisa's Daughter
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Facial portrait of a young woman under the hood of her parka. The woman is gazing at the viewer surrounded by the fur trim of her jacket's hood. The woman's face is coloured red-brown with tints of brown and red blended in. She also has short black hair. The fur trim of her hood is coloured light tan with highlights of white, and shadows of ochre and brown, or blue. The woman is wearing a light blue shirt under her jacket.
- Subject
- portrait, female
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.298
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.296
- Description
- Facial portrait of a woman in a fur parka with the hood down. The firgure's head is visible in a sea of fur. The dark brown trim of the hood of the woman's jacket forms a circle which sits in front of and behind her head. Light tan fur with areas in grey shadow separates the woman's head from the r…
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- Title
- Nanook's Wife
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Facial portrait of a woman in a fur parka with the hood down. The firgure's head is visible in a sea of fur. The dark brown trim of the hood of the woman's jacket forms a circle which sits in front of and behind her head. Light tan fur with areas in grey shadow separates the woman's head from the ring of dark brown. The woman's face is coloured red-brown with tints of orange and pink blended in. The woman is smiling. She has short hair (coloured brown, black and grey) which forms a thin semicircle about her head.
- Subject
- portrait, female
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.296
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