Woman Spinning Yarn

Artist Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)

Date1847

Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper

Dimensions5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.78.96

ClassificationsPaintings

Label Text"The hair is cut off with a knife and mixed with goosedown and a little white earth, with a view of curing the feathers. This is then beaten together with sticks, and twisted into threads by rubbing it down the thigh with the palm of the hand, in the same way that a shoemaker forms his waxend, after which it undergoes a second twisting on a distaff to increase its firmness." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter XIV

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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