Happy Birthday To You
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- Date
- 1940
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.579
- Description
- Pencil drawing of a figure in a beret and a long coat. His face is simply made from horizontal lines for the brow and mouth, and a vertical line to describe the nose. At the top, a message reads HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. PW. It is signed again P.W. [brc] Verso: written in pen, in another hand and curs…
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- Title
- Happy Birthday To You
- Date
- 1940
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.5 x 10.0 cm
- Description
- Pencil drawing of a figure in a beret and a long coat. His face is simply made from horizontal lines for the brow and mouth, and a vertical line to describe the nose. At the top, a message reads HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. PW. It is signed again P.W. [brc] Verso: written in pen, in another hand and cursive: ‘by Peter Whyte/ Dec. 9. 1940.; #84; #94; S/S; p. 98 [underlined]
- Subject
- birthday
- greatcoat
- trench coat
- beret
- soldier
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.579
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