Mount Baker from Gordon Head, Vancouver Island
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1847
Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions5 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches (14.3 x 23.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.48
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextThe ink inscription, which is not in Paul Kane's hand, incorrectly identified this scene as Mount Hood. The pencil number in the upper left corner links the sketch to Kane's Landscape Log where it is identified as: "76. Mount Baker taken from Vancouver's Island looking across the Canal de Arrow."
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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