Paul Kane's frontier : including Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America /
In the 1840's, Paul Kane travelled the far reaches of the North American West, from the Great Lakes along the fur-trade routes to the coast, sketching a visual record of the Indian cultures of that vast area. With the publication of this study of his life and career, Kane emerges as a major fig...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
Published for the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, by the University of Texas Press,
[1971]
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| Edition: | Special ed. |
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| Summary: | In the 1840's, Paul Kane travelled the far reaches of the North American West, from the Great Lakes along the fur-trade routes to the coast, sketching a visual record of the Indian cultures of that vast area. With the publication of this study of his life and career, Kane emerges as a major figure among North American artists of the 19th century. Hundreds of his sketches are examined together for the first time. The range of his subjects offers important visual documentation for the story of the North American West. |
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| Item Description: | "Three hundred copies of this edition have been printed of which two hundred and fifty are for sale..." Cushing Library Kelsey Ill. copy is number 52. The Cushing Library Dykes copy contains one of ephemera. Issued in slipcase. |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 350 pages, 102 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-342) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0292701101 |