View on the Saskatchewan River

Artist Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)

Date1846

Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper

Dimensions5 1/2 x 8 15/16 inches (14 x 22.7 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.78.130

ClassificationsPaintings

Label Text"The river as we ascended presented a more inviting appearance, the banks becoming bolder and covered principally with pine and poplar, the latter trees springing up wherever the former are burned off." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter VIII

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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