Best Wishes Peter
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- Date
- 1951
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.772
- Description
- Christmas card sketch, resembling the final version of the 1951 card. Animals gather around Catharine and Peter’s vehicle waiting for Catharine to finish cooking. Peter sits on the roof reading. One of the bears is sitting by a stool with a fork in hand. Near the middle of the bottom edge of the pa…
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- Title
- Best Wishes Peter
- Date
- 1951
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Christmas card sketch, resembling the final version of the 1951 card. Animals gather around Catharine and Peter’s vehicle waiting for Catharine to finish cooking. Peter sits on the roof reading. One of the bears is sitting by a stool with a fork in hand. Near the middle of the bottom edge of the paper it says “BEST WISHES PETER”verso: rectangular box drawn that is blank, that could have been used for another sketch.
- Subject
- bears
- stool
- fork
- moose
- birds
- squirrel
- rabbit
- tree
- cooking
- pot
- woman
- man
- reading
- vehicle
- Christmas card
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.772
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- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.776
- Description
- A quick sketch boxed off in the upper half of the page that has a narrative that matches the Christmas cards. In a vehicle an assortment of animals is crossing a bridge, with a water source below. Just to the left of the bridge there is a dog sitting and watching the car cross. In the background th…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 21.5 cm
- Description
- A quick sketch boxed off in the upper half of the page that has a narrative that matches the Christmas cards. In a vehicle an assortment of animals is crossing a bridge, with a water source below. Just to the left of the bridge there is a dog sitting and watching the car cross. In the background there is a statue (resembles the one from WyP.03.775) and trees. Below the drawing there is a practice sketch of a dog running.verso: two loose silhouette drawings of what appears to be two military men.
- Subject
- trees
- statue
- Christmas card
- war memorial
- bridge
- water
- vehicle
- moose
- bear
- rabbit
- squirrel
- deer
- running
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.776
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
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