Metis Chasing the Main Buffalo Herd
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1846
Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions5 3/16 x 9 inches (13.2 x 22.9 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.127
ClassificationsPaintings
Label Text"At last our scouts brought in word of an immense herd of buffalo bulls.... We now put our horses to the full gallop and in twenty minutes were in their midst. There could not have been less that four or five thousand in out immediate vicinity, all bulls not a single cow amongst them." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter VI
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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