Oregon City
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1847
Mediumoil on paper
Dimensions8 3/16 x 13 3/8 inches (20.8 x 34 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.211
ClassificationsPaintings
Label Text"I continued at Fort Vancouver for about a month, and left on the 10th of January 1847, with Mr. Mackenlie, a chief trader, for Oregon City, where the company has an establishment.... Oregon City contains about ninety-four houses, and two or three hundred inhabitants. There are a Methodist and a Roman Catholic church, two hotels, two grist mills, three saw mills, four stores, two watchmakers, one gunsmith, one lawyer and doctors ad libitum." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter XIII
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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