Coe-Coosh or "The Hog"
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1845
Mediumoil on paper
Dimensions11 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches (29.5 x 23.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.193
ClassificationsPaintings
Label Text"The principal despoilers of the Manomanees are the Pottowattomies, some of whom make it their business to visit the Manomanee camp on a regular black-leg expedition at the time the latter receive their Government pay, in order to fleece them of whatever they can.... I made a sketch of Coe-coosh, 'the Hog,' one of these Pottowattomie black-legs, whom I saw intently engaged in gambling." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter II
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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