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

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1968. First Tuttle Edition [Stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Good. lxiv, 329, [3] pages. Fold-out frontis illustration (somewhat creased). Illustrations. Introduction to the New Edition by J. G. MacGregor. Introduction by Lawrence J. Burpee. Catalogue of Paul Kane's paintings. Notes. Ink notes inside front cover and on fep. First edition was published in 1859 and a revised edition in 1825. Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 - February 20, 1871) was an Irish-born Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Columbia District. Paul Kane grew up in Toronto and trained himself by copying European masters on a study trip through Europe. He undertook two voyages through the wild Canadian northwest in 1845 and from 1846 to 1848. On both trips Kane sketched and painted Aboriginal peoples and documented their lives. Upon his return to Toronto, he produced more than one hundred oil paintings from these sketches. Kane's work are still a valuable resource for ethnologists. Known primarily for his images of the western landscape and of the customs and visages of different Aboriginal peoples, Paul Kane made one of the most extensive pictorial records of the 19th century Northwest. When Kane set out in 1845, his artistic aim was to paint the Ojibwa as accurately as possible in a European tradition. He traveled and recorded for three years. He traveled from Fort William (Thunder Bay) to Fort Vancouver on the Pacific coast at a time when the fur trade was beginning to decline. In graphite, watercolor and oil on paper, Kane produced more than 700 sketches as well as journal descriptions. One hundred large-scale oil on canvas paintings depicting scenes of native life in North America were produced based on his field work.