Lower Falls on the Palouse River

Artist Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)

Date1847

Mediumoil on paperboard

Dimensions9 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches (23.2 x 35.9 cm)
Frame: 16 1/2 × 22 1/2 × 1 3/8 inches (41.9 × 57.2 × 3.5 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.78.217

ClassificationsPaintings

Label Text"At the foot of the falls we made our encampment, and our guide left us, quite satisfied with his present of tobacco and ammunition. The water falls in one perpendicular sheet of about 600 feet in height, from between rocks of a greyish-yellow colour, which rise to about 400 feet above the summit of the fall. The water tumbles into a rocky basin below, with a continuous hollow echoing roar, and courses with great velocity along its bed, until it falls into the Nezperees. There was a constant current of air around our encampment, which was delightfully cool and refreshing, " wrote Paul Kane, Wanderings, chapter XVII

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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