Chinook Indians in Front of Mount Hood
Paul Kane · 1853
Why it's great
Chinook people stand in front of a huge snowy volcano, Mount Hood, on the Columbia River. Paul Kane painted this on his journey to the Pacific Northwest. The mountain towers over the scene. It's a grand landscape of a faraway place.
Where to see it
📍 National Gallery of CanadaOttawa, Canada
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Paul Kane was born in Ireland and grew up in Toronto. Between 1845 and 1848 he made a long journey across Canada to the Pacific, sketching Indigenous peoples and landscapes. He then painted a series of large pictures from his sketches. He died in Toronto in 1871.
