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Paul Kane's frontier : including Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kane, Paul, 1810-1871
Corporate Authors: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, National Gallery of Canada
Other Authors: Harper, J. Russell
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : Published for the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, by the University of Texas Press, [1971]
Edition:Special ed.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Pictorial works.
Indians in art.
Frontier and pioneer life in art.
Northwest, Canadian > Description and travel.
Table of Contents:
  • Part One: Paul Kaine: his life and career as an artist
  • Early years
  • Sketching among the Indians, 1845-1848
  • A trip to the Red River, 1849
  • One hundred western canvases
  • Wanderings of an artist
  • The later years
  • Part Two: 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 Terrritory and back again, a reprint of the edition of 1859
  • Part Three: Paul Kain's sketches and paintings
  • Part Four: a catalog raisonnĂ©.