Fort Frances

Artist Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)

Date1848

Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper

Dimensions5 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches (14 x 23.2 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.78.114

ClassificationsPaintings

Label TextThis sketch shows a view of the water mill from Fort Francis in Northwestern Ontario. It was completed at the end of the return trip. Compare how the artist describes his experience in his journal and how the same passage is written in the published book of his travels, Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America. “Here the annual three months' voyage terminates, that being the time which it takes to convey the furs to York Factory, in Hudson's Bay, and bring back the outfit of goods...” Kane, Wanderings, Chapter XXV “23rd [October]. thare is no other men in the worled that could stand it after arriving at Fort Franses … the men carried the pcks to the store, and then thure 3 months voige was over.” Kane’s journal; the original spelling preserved.

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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