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Challenging frontiers : the Canadian west

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2004
Author
Felske, Lorry W., Beverly Jean Rasporich (editors)
Publisher
Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
08.2 Fe33c
Author
Felske, Lorry W., Beverly Jean Rasporich (editors)
Responsibility
Edited by Lorry W. Felske and Beverly Jean Rasporich
Publisher
Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2004
Physical Description
vii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Landscapes
Artists
Prairies, Canadian
First Nations
Mining
Music
Immigration
Chinese
Politics
Ranching
Abstract
Pertains to Indigenous people and Asian immigration in Western Canada, the Banff Springs Hotel, coal mining in Calgary, Canadian Pacific Hotels, Wilf Carter, Group of Seven, Sid Marty
Contents
Introduction : challenging frontiers / Lorry W. Felske and Beverly Rasporich -- Shooting a Saskatoon (whatever happened to the Marlboro man?) / Aritha van Herk -- Regionalism, landscape, and identity in the prairie west / R. Douglas Francis -- Celebrating magpies : artists Paul Kane, Hongeeyesa, and Emily Carr / Ann Davis -- Two months in big bear's camp, 1885 : narratives of "Indian captivity" and the articulation of "race" and "gender" hierarchies in western Canada / Sarah Carter -- Roughing it in the west, or, whose frontier, whose history? / Janice Dickin -- Diversifying our past : finding a place for coal mining communities in Alberta's historic identity / Lorry W. Felske -- When the "wild west" is me : re-viewing cowboys and Indians / Emma LaRocque -- Managing contradictory visions of the west : the great Richardson/Weadick experiment / Robert Seiler and Tamara Seiler -- Hank Snow and the eastern frontiers of western music / Brian Rusted -- Standard prairie grain elevators : a disappearing icon / Geoffrey Simmins -- From somewhere to everywhere to nowhere : the bank of Montreal as a case of vanishing identity / Michael McMordie -- Asian immigration to western Canada / Madeline A. Kalbach -- Chinese-language media across the west / Lloyd Sciban -- The reform and alliance experiments : federal politics in Western Canada / David Taras -- Constancy amid change : ranching in Western Canada / Max Foran -- North/Western aurages : the soundscapes of Allan Gordon Bell / Marcia Jenneth Epstein -- Rodeos, ranching and the house of tea : Irene McCaugherty and Esther Warkov re-invent the West / Beverly Rasporich.
ISBN
1-55238-140-4
Accession Number
p2019-21
Call Number
08.2 Fe33c
Collection
Archives Library
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1944 – 1944
Medium
graphite; on paper;
Catalogue Number
WyP.09.20
Description
Pressed paper coil-bound sketchbook with dark brown covers. “ARTCRAFT SKETCH BOOK ROUGH” as well as manufacturer details printed on the front cover in black. Contents include sketches of various planes and air base scenes, as well as sketches of people dated July 1944.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1944 – 1944
Medium
graphite; on paper;
Dimensions
25.3 x 36.1 cm
Description
Pressed paper coil-bound sketchbook with dark brown covers. “ARTCRAFT SKETCH BOOK ROUGH” as well as manufacturer details printed on the front cover in black. Contents include sketches of various planes and air base scenes, as well as sketches of people dated July 1944.
Subject
drawing
sketching
figure studies
military
World War II
airplanes
prairies
Peter Whyte;
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.09.20
Images
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1962 – 1966
Medium
graphite; ink on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.352
Description
When oriented in a landscape manner, paper is divided into two boxes side by side. The left box has a light pencil drawing within that is orientated in the opposite manner of the paper orientation. This drawing is of a rodeo scene with spectator stands on the viewer’s right, an open field in the ce…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1962 – 1966
Medium
graphite; ink on paper
Dimensions
27.4 x 21.1 cm
Description
When oriented in a landscape manner, paper is divided into two boxes side by side. The left box has a light pencil drawing within that is orientated in the opposite manner of the paper orientation. This drawing is of a rodeo scene with spectator stands on the viewer’s right, an open field in the centre, and a row of tipis on the left. The field is populated with several figures. Two figures are close to the viewer, one is mounted on a horse and the other is on foot. The illustration in the right box is drawn in pen. In the foreground, a man stands with his back to the viewer. He is carrying a suitcase and tool/lunch box and wears a hat. He looks towards the distant skyline, which is punctuated by skyscrapers. In the mid-ground, a man bucks on a horse across the standing figure’s sight line. The figure on the horse tips his cowboy hat. The mountains appear in a secondary skyline directly above the city skyline.While this image does not have military elements, the composition and use of the figure in the foreground facing away from the viewer mimics Peter Whyte’s Blind Date drawings.
Subject
rodeo
urban
prairies
mountains;
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.352
Images
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1925 – 1966
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.374
Description
Pencil drawing of a man looking towards an urban skyline. His back is to the viewer and he carries a suitcase and other items. The man wears a at and shorts. Ahead of him a cowboy sits on a bucking horse as the horse leaps into the air. Past the city skyline is a mountain range.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1925 – 1966
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
27.0 x 21.0 cm
Description
Pencil drawing of a man looking towards an urban skyline. His back is to the viewer and he carries a suitcase and other items. The man wears a at and shorts. Ahead of him a cowboy sits on a bucking horse as the horse leaps into the air. Past the city skyline is a mountain range.
Subject
Cowboy
western
urban
mountains
prairies
Peter Whyte
drawing
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.374
Images
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