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Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 – February 20, 1871) [1] was an Irish-born Canadian painter whose paintings and especially field sketches were known as one of the first visual documents of Western indigenous life.
Jul 18, 2024 · Senior congressional correspondent and columnist. Education: University of Delaware, BA. Paul Kane has covered Congress since 2000, when he started at Roll Call with a beat focused on the...
Paul Kane (1810-1871) was a self-taught artist who documented the lives of Native Americans in the Canadian West and the Columbia District. He painted more than one hundred oil paintings from his field sketches, which are a valuable resource for ethnologists.
- Irish, Canadian
- September 3, 1810
- Mallow, County Cork, Ireland
- February 20, 1871
Known primarily for his images of the western landscape and of the customs and visages of different Indigenous Peoples, Paul Kane made one of the most extensive pictorial records of the 19 th century Northwest.
Jan 14, 2009 · We associate the self-taught artist Paul Kane (1810-71) with romantic paintings of Indigenous people and credit him with accurately depicting specific individuals, their affiliations, and the landscapes of the "Great Nor'West."
Paul Kane, painter (born 3 September 1810 in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland; died 20 February 1871 in Toronto, ON). Largely self-taught, Paul Kane was the most famous of all Canadian artist explorers, specializing in depicting the lives of Indigenous peoples and settlers in the Canadian West.
Self-taught artist Paul Kane (1810–1871) travelled the Canadian Northwest with HBC and left a rich record of Indigenous and settler cultures. Read his biography here.
