A pastel chalk drawing on brown paper. The drawing is a portrait of a young cowboy seated. The boy is wearing a blue shirt with a white scarf and tan chaps. He is sitting on a push foot stool that has a salmon-coloured throw over it. In the background behind the boy is a black and white cowhide han…
A pastel chalk drawing on brown paper. The drawing is a portrait of a young cowboy seated. The boy is wearing a blue shirt with a white scarf and tan chaps. He is sitting on a push foot stool that has a salmon-coloured throw over it. In the background behind the boy is a black and white cowhide hanging on the wall. There is a black chalk line border, 33 x 23 cm, around the drawing. the artist signature and date are in the bottom left hand corner, “DORIS CORMIE 8/23/33”.
A pastel landscape drawing on brown paper. A large cement dam at left, reaching past the centre dominates the drawing. In the background the sky is a pale blue. The large, grey dam has white water rushing through on the viewer’s right. On the same side of the drawing, extending out of frame, is a …
A pastel landscape drawing on brown paper. A large cement dam at left, reaching past the centre dominates the drawing. In the background the sky is a pale blue. The large, grey dam has white water rushing through on the viewer’s right. On the same side of the drawing, extending out of frame, is a large brown rock with yellow and orange highlites. In the foreground is blue water with white highlites. The artist signature is written in the bottom right corner in pencil. Au verso, written in very faint pencil in the top right corner is, “Doris Cormie 23 Aug 1933”.
Pastel portrait of an Indigenous child. The child’s long hair is in braids, and she wears a beaded headband, with triangles of yellow and blue. Her shirt is yellow, with a white collar, and she wears purple beads around her neck.
Pastel portrait of an Indigenous child. The child’s long hair is in braids, and she wears a beaded headband, with triangles of yellow and blue. Her shirt is yellow, with a white collar, and she wears purple beads around her neck.
Pastel portrait of a young girl. She has black hair, in two braids, with bangs visible on the left side of her forehead, under her brown cowboy hat. She wears a red scarf with white dots around her neck. The child gazes at the viewer, unsmiling.
Pastel portrait of a young girl. She has black hair, in two braids, with bangs visible on the left side of her forehead, under her brown cowboy hat. She wears a red scarf with white dots around her neck. The child gazes at the viewer, unsmiling.