Paul Kane, the Columbia wanderer, 1846-7 sketches and paintings of the Indians and his lecture, "The Chinooks." Edited with an introd. by Thomas Vaughan
Paul Kane, 1810-1871 an exhibition organized by J. Russell Harper for the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Paul Kane's frontier including Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America by Paul Kane. Edited with a biographical introd. and a catalogue raisonné by J. Russell Harper
Photographs of sketches and paintings made by Paul Kane in 1845-1856, including portraits and scenes of camps, dances, and a buffalo hunt, relating to the Ojibwa, Ottawa, Menominee, Potawatomi, Eastern Sioux, Cree, Assiniboine, Chinook, Cowlitz, Clallam, Cowichan and Babine. The sketchbook, of which the microfilm may be incomplete, includes many of the same subjects as the paintings, as well as artifacts, scenic views and scenes from Kane's studies in Europe. The collection also includes a photostat of the catalog published in Kane's "Wanderings of an Artist..." and a typed list of the captions for the sketches.
Biographical/Historical note:
Paul Kane (1810-1871) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Toronto (then called York) when he was nine. He worked as a decorative furniture painter before turning to portrait painting and studying art at centers throughout Europe. Inspired by George Catlin's paintings documenting the Plains Indians, Kane set out on an expedition from Fort William (Thunder Bay) to Fort Vancouver to document the peoples of the Northwest. From 1845-1848, Kane traveled amongst tribes of the Great Plains, Pacific Northwest, and elsewhere, sketching and describing his experiences in a journal. When Kane returned to Toronto, he published "Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America" (1859) and made over 100 paintings based on his journal sketches, commissioned by George William Allen. The entire Allen collection was later purchased by Sir Edmund Osler and donated to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 4428, NAA Photo Lot 4427
Reproduction Note:
Copy prints and microfilm made by the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology.
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Photographs previously filed in Photo Lot 4427, have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 4428. These are photographs of paintings by Kane in the Royal Ontario Museum and were donated with the photographs of sketches already filed in this collection.
Additional photographs of paintings by Kane held in National Anthropological Archives MS 4642 and the BAE historical negatives.
Contained in:
Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Restrictions: Publication rights granted to Bureau of American Ethnology or Smithsonian Institution staff members for use of small selections of the material; collection not to be published in its entirety. Royal Ontario Museum wishes to be informed when and where illustrations are used. Persons outside the Smithsonian Institution must obtain publication permission as well as photographic prints from the Royal Ontario Museum; the Smithsonian may not make copy negatives for the general distribution of prints.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
1848
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.430 C 1
Local Note:
See Bulletin 77, Plate 16-a (Bushnell) Illustration in "Wanderings of An Artist," by Paul Kane. Poor line drawing. If needed make new negative from publication. Old negative found to be broken 5/57 - Discarded.
Kane traveled between 1845 and 1848 sketching. The oil paintings were probably painted ca. 1850 after his return. -- Kenneth R. Lister 10/4/81. The two original paintings are housed in the Department of Ethnology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Kane traveled between 1845 and 1848 sketching. The oil paintings were probably painted ca. 1850 after his return. -- Kenneth R. Lister 10/4/81. The two original paintings are housed in the Department of Ethnology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV 9224702 ; OPPS NEG 471 B 2
Local Note:
Artist and date supplied from catalog card for 471 B 1, line drawing after Chippewa (?) painting. ; Original glass negative found (7/1971) in Bureau of American Ethnology collection.
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 / by Paul Kane