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Painted Faces of Eight Attendant Women Dancers
Painted Faces of Eight Attendant Women Dancers
Painted Faces of Eight Attendant Women Dancers

Painted Faces of Eight Attendant Women Dancers

Artist (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1847
Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions5 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (14 x 24.1 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.72
ClassificationsPaintings
Label Text"...whilst eight women, hideously painted, chanted and danced round her and the fire." Kane, Wanderings, XX
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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