Sled Dogs of the Plains

Artist Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)

Date1848

Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper

Dimensions5 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches (14.3 x 23.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.78.124

ClassificationsPaintings

Label Text"On the 6th of January 1848, we had a wedding at Edmonton, the bride was the daughter of the gentleman in charge, the bridegroom Mr. Rowand, junior, who resided at Fort Pitt, a distance of 200 miles from the establishment.... Having received an invitation to accompany the happy pair on the journey home, I gladly accepted it as I began to find my amusements rather monotonous. Next morning I was awoke by the yelping of the dogs and the ringing of the bells on the dog-collars, accompanied by the shouts of the men thrashing the brutes into something like discipline, as they harnessed them to the sledges and carioles." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter XXIII

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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