French River Rapids

Artist Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)

Date1846

Mediumoil on paper

Dimensions8 1/8 x 13 7/16 inches (20.6 x 34.1 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.78.159

ClassificationsPaintings

Label Text"May 30th. --We made an early start reaching the 'French Portage' by breakfast time. Here we lightened the canoes of the principal part of the baggage, and carried it across the portage, a distance of three miles, in order that we might be able to send the canoes round by the river, which had now become very shallow, to meet us at the further end of the portage." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter IV

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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