About the Artwork
Old St. Patrick's, Pittsburgh
1930
John Kane
1860-1934
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Framed: 31 7/8 × 35 1/2 × 3 1/4 inches (81 × 90.2 × 8.3 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
46.281
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: John Kane 1930
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Provenance
the artist
Valentine Gallery, Inc. (New York, New York, USA)
1935, Robert H. Tannahill (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1946-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Twenty-First Annual Exhibition of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Exh. cat., Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1931, no. 186.
John Kane Exhibition. Exh. cat., Contemporary Arts Gallery. New York, 1931, no. 2.
John Kane Exhibition. Exh. cat., Gallery 144 West. New York, 1934, no. 9.
Memorial Exhibition of Selected Paintings by John Kane. Exh. cat., Valentine Gallery. New York, 1935, no. 5.
John Kane Exhibition. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1936, no. 40.
O’Connor, John, Jr. “The Kane Memorial Exhibition.” Carnegie Magazine 10, 1 (April 1936): pp. 22-23 (ill.).
Kane, John. Skyhooks: The Autobiography of John Kane. Philadelphia, 1938, pp. 12, 17.
Modern Primitives. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1938, no. 145 (ill.).
Payne, Elizabeth H. “Old St. Patrick’s by John Kane.” Bulletin of the DIA 26, 1 (1947): pp. 13-14 (ill.).
Three Pennsylvania Self-Taught Artists: Hicks, Kane, and Pippen. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1966, no. 61.
Arkus, Leon Anthony. John Kane, Painter. Pittsburgh, 1971, ppl 173-174, 294, no. 117 (ill.).
John Kane: Modern America’s First Folk Painter. Exh. cat., Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1985, no. 44.
Heineman, Kenneth J. A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh. University Park, PA, 1999.
King, Maxwell and Louise Lippincott. American Workman: The Life and Art of John Kane. Pittsburgh, 2022, pp. 250-251, 251 (ill.).
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John Kane, Old St. Patrick's, Pittsburgh, 1930, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 46.281.
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