Canoe in Rapids
From Foreword
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From Foreword
Winslow Homer, Canoe in Rapids, 1897. Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper, 35.4 × 53.3 cm (13 15/16 × 21 in).
From Introduction
Francis Lee Jaques, Picture Rock at Crooked Lake (Return of the Voyageur), 1947. Oil on canvas, 83.8 x 106.6 cm.
From Introduction
Mark Hamel, Crossing the Shallows, Snake River, 2014. Oil on mounted linen, 40.64 × 50.8 cm.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
John Webber, Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Capt. Cook.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Graham Herbert (Hornby Island, British Columbia), Sacred Escort, 1994. Watercolor on paper, 36.83 x 52.07 cm.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Jean Antoine Theodore Gudin, Jacques Cartier Discovering the St. Lawrence River, 1847. Oil on canvas, 142 x 266 cm.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Paul Kane, White Mud Portage, Saulteaux, ca. 1776–1780.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Eastman Johnson, Canoe of the Indians, ca. 1856–1857.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Seth Eastman, Rice Gatherers, 1867.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Frances Anne Hopkins, The Red River Expedition at Kakabeka Falls, 1877.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Théophile Hamel, Portrait de Samuel de Champlain, 1870. Oil on canvas, 66 x 86 cm.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
George Agnew Reid, The Arrival of Champlain at Quebec, 1909. Pastel on wove paper, 62 × 43 cm.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
After Hyacinthe Rigaud, Portrait of Louis, XIV, after 1701.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
The painter John James Audubon is more well-known for his images of North American birds, but he also painted other wildlife, such as these two beavers working on a tree.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Arthur Heming, The Voyageur, 1915. Oil on canvas, 76.7 × 102.2 cm.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Abby Fuller Abbe, The Voyageur, ca. 1860.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Frederic Remington, Radisson and Groseilliers, 1905. Oil on canvas, 110.2 x 194.3 cm.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
George Caleb Bingham, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845. Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.7 cm.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
This 1822 watercolor from the Manitoba Museum’s Hudson’s Bay Company Collection, illustrates a canot du maître carrying two officers.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Adam Sherriff Scott, Chief Trader Archibald McDonald Descending the Fraser, 1828, ca. 1942. 81.28 x 63.5 cm.