biographie de Paul KANE (1810-1871)

Birth place: Mallow, County Cork, Ireland

Death place: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Profession: Landscape and genre painter (specializing in scenes of North American Indians)

Studied: Upper Canada College, in Toronto before 1836 with Thomas Drury; Europe, 1840-45

Work: Royal Ontario Mus. (100 oils and 300 sketches); Montreal MFA; National Gallery Canada; AG of Ontario; Stark Foundation (200 sketches in Orange, TX)

Comments: Kane was brought to York (now Toronto), Canada in 1819. He came to the United States in 1836 and worked there as an artist until 1840. He painted some portraits in Detroit in 1836 and in Mobile in 1840. Returning to Canada from Europe in 1845, he spent the next three years sketching in the Canadian West. His experiences, illustrated by his own pen, appeared in Kane's Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America (London, 1859). Kane became blind in 1866.

Sources: G&W; CAB. More recently, see Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 210; P&H Samuels, 258-59.

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