Paul Kane Goes South: The Sale of the Family’s Collection of Field Sketches
@article{Maclaren1997PaulKG, title={Paul Kane Goes South: The Sale of the Family’s Collection of Field Sketches}, author={Ian S. Maclaren}, journal={Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'{\'e}tudes canadiennes}, year={1997}, volume={32}, pages={22 - 47} }
Abstract: Between 1845 and 1848, Torontonian Paul Kane, the best-known nineteenth-century Canadian artist, travelled west painting and writing about the upper Great Lakes, the North-West, the new Oregon Territory in the United States, and Vancouver Island. After his return to Toronto, he and his work enjoyed an unprecedented reputation, but a century later more than 200 of Kane’s field sketches and his field notes were sold by his grandson to an American collector. Surviving correspondence…
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