La Rocque's Prairie
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1846
Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions5 1/2 x 8 7/8 inches (14 x 22.5 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.78
ClassificationsPaintings
Label Text"Nov. 6th. - We made but few miles of progress to-day, being obliged to encamp at La Row's [La Rocque's] Prairie in order to pasture our horses, our next stopping place being too distant to reach that evening." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter XI
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
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