Patrick's, Pittsburgh, 1930, oil on canvas (Detroit Institute of Arts) 1930-34, oil on canvas (Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh)
The Cathedral of Learning, 1930, oil on canvas (Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh). Self-Portrait, 1929, oil on canvas over composition board (Museum of Modern Art, New York). 1928-29, oil on canvas (Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA) 1928, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, New York) Through Coleman Hollow up the Allegheny Valley, c. 1928, oil on canvas (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia) Girl Coming Down Garden Steps, n.d., oil on canvas (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia). PAINTINGS BY JOHN KANE SOLD BY THE VALENTINE GALLERY NOW IN U.S. * John Kane, Painter, compiled by Leon Anthony Arkus, (Univ. When he closed the Valentine Gallery in 1947, Dudensing arranged for representation of the Kane estate to be transferred to Knoedler Galleries. William Paley, Duncan Phillips, the Albright Art Gallery (later the Albright-Knox Art Gallery), and the Museum of Modern Art.ĭudensing organized exhibitions of John Kane's paintings at the Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. In the coming years other prominent clients of the Valentine Gallery acquired Kane's work: Lee Ault, Aline Barnsdall, Cecil Beaton, Stephen C. Tannahill all bought paintings from Dudensing. Chrysler Jr., Adelaide Milton de Groot, and Robert H. Because Kane's work was reminiscent of Henri Rousseau's, modern art collectors: Dr. He organized a memorial exhibition that opened at the Valentine Gallery in January 1935. This misstep was corrected soon after the artist's death in August 1934 when the dealer signed on to represent the artist's estate. Unfortunately Dudensing cancelled the exhibition at the last minute. Valentine Dudensing was aware of Kane's ascending career and had even made tentative plans to hold what would have been the artist's first solo exhibition at the Valentine Gallery in 1931. 1929? (Museum of Modern Art) to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948). 
Subsequent invitations to participate at the Carnegie and inclusion in group exhibitions at the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art and the Museum of Modern Art led Kane to the ultimate prize: the sale of his painting Homestead, c.
His painting sold to a juror for $50 and with that his career as an artist began when he was 67 years old. 1927 (Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh) was accepted by the annual exhibition at the Carnegie, Kane was employed as a house painter. In 1927 when his painting, Scene from the Scottish Highlands, c. It was only the way she wanted to look and so, was pleased to have a picture like that."* It wasn't even how she thought she looked. Kane summed up what he learned about the portrait business: "It wasn't the way she looked. This is how he found work as a portraitist and painted over enlarged photographs of his subjects. Kane failed in three attempts to gain admission to art school so he taught himself by painting over photographs. Unable to find work, he became a railroad watchman and then a freight car painter which is how he learned to mix paint colors. The Scottish-born, self-taught artist, Kane, a Pittsburgh resident, had worked as a coal miner and a block paver before he lost his leg in a train accident. 15, 1927) regarding John Kane (1860-1934), a first-time participant in the highly esteemed Carnegie International. "Genius Has Been Discovered!" declared a cover story in the Pittsburgh Press (Oct.
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