John Kane (artist)

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

He was the first self-taught American painter in the 20th century to be attributed by a museum. When, on his third attempt, his take steps was admitted to the 1927 Carnegie International Exhibition, he attracted considerable attention from the media, which initially suspected that his finishing was a prank. He by chance paved the pretension 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.

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