Mount St. Helens with Smoke Cone
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1847
Mediumoil on paper
Dimensions8 1/8 x 13 3/8 inches (20.6 x 34 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.207
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextKane witnessed the eruption of the volcano Mount St. Helens. "There was not a cloud visible in the sky at the time I commenced my sketch, and not a breath of air was perceptible: suddenly a stream of white smoke shot up from the crater of the mountain and hovered a short time over its summit; it then settled down like a cap. This shape it retained for about an hour and a-half, and then gradually disappeared." 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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