Grand Coulee
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1847
Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions5 1/2 x 9 9/16 inches (14 x 24.3 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.7
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextKane wrote, "Grand Coulet . . . seemed to have been a former bed of the Columbia River.” He described it as a “wonderful gully” about 150 miles long. He traveled through the site, “lost in admiration of its beauty and grandeur.” The Grand Coulee today differs from what Kane saw. The Columbia Basin project dammed the area in 1952. The Upper Grand Coulee became Banks Lake.
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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