Collection Highlights
The Indian Hunter
Date:
1860
Object Number:
1939.390
Medium:
Brown patinated bronze
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Luce Center
Elisha Kent Kane, M.D. (1820-1857)
Object Number:
1859.1
Date:
1858
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
canvas: 42 x 51 in. ( 106.7 x 129.5 cm )
frame: 49 x 58 in. ( 124.5 x 147.3 cm )
Marks:
Signed and dated lower left: T. Hicks / 1858
Gallery Label:
Dr. Kane, famous Arctic explorer, was born in Philadelphia to John Kintzing Kane and Jane Duval (Leiper) Kane. His world travels began with his assignments to medical missions in China and in Africa. He served in the Mexican War in which he was wounded and contracted typhus, but by 1850 he had returned to duty with an expedition sent to the Arctic to search for a missing British explorer. The story of this journey is told in "The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin" (1853).
Credit Line:
Gift of several ladies of New York
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
