Paintings

Description

Title: Paintings
Creator: Kane, Paul, 1810-1871
Published / Created: 1846-1848.
Abstract: A set of six framed oil paintings of scenes in the Pacific Northwest. Four of the paintings, "Falls of the Peluse Snake River," "Kakkabakka Falls (Falls on the Willamette)", "Buffalo Hunt," and "Buffalo Resting", have been attributed to Paul Kane. "Fort Vancouver, Columbia River," has been attributed to John Mix Stanley (see Hassrick, et al., Painted Journeys, 2016). C. P. Wilson, in his article “Early Western Paintings” in The Beaver (June, 1948) suggests that “Mount Hood from the East” might be by or after a work by Henry J. Warre, a British Army officer
Description: Paul Kane (1810-1871), from Toronto, spent four years in Europe and returned to North America to paint Indians and scenes of the Northwest. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company's 1846 spring brigade to the Northwest and George Simpson, the company's governor, commissioned paintings. After two years, Kane returned east and fulfilled commissions by George William Allan of Toronto and others, to do oil paintings of Northwest Indians and scenes.
Provenance: Acquired from the widow of Sir George Simpson. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe.
Extent: 6 paintings :
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: WA MSS 278
Container / Volume: Framed painting (Kakkabakka Falls [Falls on the Willamette])

Genre: Pictorial works
Material: oil on canvas.
Subject (Geographic): Northwest, Pacific
Subject (Name): Kane, Paul, 1810-1871.
Stanley, John Mix, 1814-1872.
Warre, Henry James, Sir, 1819-1898.
Subject (Topic): American bison hunting
American bison
Subjects: Kane, Paul, 1810-1871
Stanley, John Mix, 1814-1872
Warre, Henry James, Sir, 1819-1898
Northwest, Pacific > Pictorial works
American bison hunting > Pictorial works
American bison > Pictorial works

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Citation: Paul Kane Paintings. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.