Prairie de Bute

Artist Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)

Date1847

Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper

Dimensions5 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches (14 x 23.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.78.64

ClassificationsPaintings

DescriptionPencil drawing of bearded man on reverse.

Label Text"This evening we encamped in the Prairie de Bute. This is remarkable for having innumerable round elevations, touching each other like so many hemispheres, of ten or twelve yards in circumference, and four or five feet in height. I dug one of them open, but found nothing in it but loose stones, although I went four or five feet down. The whole surface is thickly covered with coarse grass. I travelled twenty-two miles through this extraordinary looking prairie." 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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