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In-person Arts & Culture

Lecture | Ian MacLaren – Paul Kane's Travels in Indigenous North America

Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024
5:00pm to 6:00pm

Art Gallery of Alberta

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Organized by: Art Gallery of Alberta

Nov.
7

This talk focuses on how Indigenous Peoples were represented and how hindsight provides us with an opportunity to reflect on that representation.

Paul Kane travelled from Thunder Bay to Fort Vancouver in 1845, where he painted the Indigenous communities along his travels. He sketched and painted dozens of works depicting scenes from the Hudson's Bay Company territory. He has been called the founding father of Canadian art

Dr. Ian MacLaren wrote Paul Kane's Travels in Indigenous North America, comprised of four volumes, as a project 30 years in the making. A painstaking, panoramic exploration, it studies the artist's oeuvre in terms of his contemporaries, his technique, and the complicated history of the provenance of the works.

Art Gallery of Alberta

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Edmonton, AB, T5J 2C1