Fort Pitt with Bluff
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1846
Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions5 1/2 x 9 1/16 inches (14 x 23 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.134
ClassificationsPaintings
Label Text"We reached Fort Pitt in the evening. It is a neat and compact little fort, and is, like all the rest of the forts except those at Red River, constructed of wood. The country here abounds in buffalo; grain and other procduce might be raised plentifully here if cultivated." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter IX
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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