Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America: From Canada to Vancouver’s Island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Territory and Back Again

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Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America: From Canada to Vancouver’s Island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Territory and Back Again

Artist and Author Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)

Lithographer Vincent Brooks (1815 - 1885)

Publisher Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts (founded 1724)

Date1859

Mediumchromolithographs on paper; woodcuts on paper; bound in red buckram, brown leather spine and corners

Dimensions8 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches (21.6 × 13.3 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number11.85.1

ClassificationsInformation Artifacts

Label TextIt took eleven years for Kane to publish his book about his travels. He had to go to London to find a publisher. Kane probably had help in shaping the manuscript. It contains significant information about the lands and the people the artist encountered. The book remains a valuable insight into attitudes of the nineteenth century. “The principal object in my undertaking was to sketch pictures of the principal chiefs, and their original costumes, to illustrate their manners and customs, and to represent the scenery of an almost unknown country.” - Kane, Wanderings of an Artist, Preface.

ProvenanceArtist; by descent to his grandson, Paul Kane III, 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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