Three Canoes and Paddles of the Columbia River

Artist Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)

Date1847

Mediumwatercolor on paper

Dimensions5 3/8 x 9 inches (13.6 x 22.9 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.78.2

ClassificationsPaintings

Label TextIn Kane's Landscape Log the three canoes are identified as belonging to tribes found in the Columbia River region: "No. 1 Click-a-tat. 2. Chinook. No. 3 Cowlitz Canoe." Kane described the canoes of the Chinook Indians, "Their canoes are hollowed out of the cedar by fire, and smoothed off with stone axes. Some of them are very large, as the cedar grows to an enormous size in this neighbourhood. They are made very light, and from their formation, are capable of withstanding very heavy seas." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter XII

ProvenanceArtist; by descent to his grandson, Paul Kane III [1889-1958], Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; purchased September 17, 1957 through (Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, New York) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

On View

Not on view