Mission Station of Walker and Eells, Spokane River
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1847
Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions5 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches (13.6 x 23.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.69
ClassificationsPaintings
Label Text"...I made an excursion of sixty miles, accompanied by Mr. Lewis, to Walker and Eales' Presbyterian mission, where I was most hospitably received by these worthy people. Each of the missionaries had a comfortable log-house, situated in the midst of a fertile plain, and, with their wives and children, seemed to be happily located." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter XX
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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