John Kane (artist)

John Kane (August 19, 1860 — August 10, 1934) was an American painter celebrated for his talent in Naïve art.

He was the first self-taught American painter in the 20th century to be ascribed by a museum. When, on his third attempt, his fake was admitted to the 1927 Carnegie International Exhibition, he attracted considerable attention from the media, which initially suspected that his carrying out was a prank. He out of the blue paved the mannerism for extra self-taught artists, from Grandma Moses to Outsider Art. Today Kane is remembered for his landscape paintings of industrial Pittsburgh, many of which are held by major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.