topic:"whimsey" found 4 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Description: A blond woman wearing a mask, blue sweater, white and brown shirt and brown boots in centre of the room. Papers are spread on floor, paints and brushes, various pieces of brown furniture, a green plant, a television with a man's face on screen. She has a bowl in her right hand from which has spill…

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Title: Indoor World

Date: 1982

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 38.0 x 56.3 cm

Description: A blond woman wearing a mask, blue sweater, white and brown shirt and brown boots in centre of the room. Papers are spread on floor, paints and brushes, various pieces of brown furniture, a green plant, a television with a man's face on screen. She has a bowl in her right hand from which has spilled an apple and orange and a teacup. Two rooms on either side with furniture.

Subject: whimsey; figure; female; Pat Askren

Credit: Gift of Jon Whyte, Banff, 1992

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.06

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Mountain/Moutard

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Date: 1982

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.05

Description: 3 cone-shaped mountains have heads and arms, they are holding up letters spelling moutain, mountain, motard. Other colourful figures are playing with letters, left centre background is a tall tree with yellow mountains, one of which has a teacup and saucer, another has only a saucer In right backgr…

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Title: Mountain/Moutard

Date: 1982

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 38.0 x 56.3 cm

Description: 3 cone-shaped mountains have heads and arms, they are holding up letters spelling moutain, mountain, motard. Other colourful figures are playing with letters, left centre background is a tall tree with yellow mountains, one of which has a teacup and saucer, another has only a saucer In right background is a window through which grey mountains and blue sky can be seen

Subject: whimsey; landscape; mountains

Credit: Gift of Jon Whyte, Banff, 1992

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.05

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Untitled [Chess Set]

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Artist: Robin Sturdy (1946 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: c. 1975

Medium: ceramic

Catalogue Number: StR.06.01

Description: This piece is a fantastical ceramic chess set made up of a village. Surrounding the actual chess board is a village of turreted, peaked and snow-covered buildings. White ghost-like figures stretch out of windows and are crowded on the balconies and terraces of the buildings in an attempt to see t…

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Artist: Robin Sturdy (1946 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [Chess Set]

Date: c. 1975

Medium: ceramic

Dimensions: chess set: 45.72; table: 45.72 x chess set: 71.12; table: 76.2 x chess set: 91.44; table: 101.6 cm

Description: This piece is a fantastical ceramic chess set made up of a village. Surrounding the actual chess board is a village of turreted, peaked and snow-covered buildings. White ghost-like figures stretch out of windows and are crowded on the balconies and terraces of the buildings in an attempt to see the chess match. The chess pieces resemble turtle-like animals standing upright and wearing armor. The chess board is textured and the height of it is varied in different places. The chess set is primarily brown, white and tan.

Subject: whimsey; chess set; figure; mythological; architecture; fantasy

Credit: Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2002

Catalogue Number: StR.06.01

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