Scotch Day at Kennywood
1933 · Oil on canvas
19 7/8 x 27 1/8" (50.5 x 68.9 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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John Kane
1860
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Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
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Naive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972
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The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Portraits from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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John Kane was an American painter of industrial landscapes and urban scenes, working primarily in oil on canvas during the early twentieth century. Born in Scotland in 1860 and emigrating to Pennsylvania, Kane depicted the steel mills, factories, and working-class neighborhoods of the Pittsburgh region with a distinctive attention to architectural geometry and atmospheric light. His compositions combine precisionist formal clarity with a documentary interest in industrial labor and urban transformation. Kane continued to paint until his death in 1934, leaving a significant record of American industrial life during a period of rapid economic change.
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