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Chief David Bearspaw

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1933
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.120
Description
Colour: white, brown, red, orange. A man looks to the right, wearing a feather headress which runs off the picture at the upper left. While ermine streamers come down either side of his face. He wears a red neckerchief. There is blue, orange and red trim on the headress.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Chief David Bearspaw
Date
1933
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.5 x 35 cm
Description
Colour: white, brown, red, orange. A man looks to the right, wearing a feather headress which runs off the picture at the upper left. While ermine streamers come down either side of his face. He wears a red neckerchief. There is blue, orange and red trim on the headress.
Subject
portrait
male
Chief David Bearspaw
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.120
Images
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