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Touching Up, (painting). Artist:  Kane, John, 1860-1934, painter. Title:  Touching Up, (painting). Other Titles:  Self Portrait, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1931-1932. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  20 3/4 x 27 in. (52.7 x 68.6 cm) Inscription:  (Lower left:) JOHN KANE/TOUCHING UP signed Description:  John Kane working in his studio steps back to look at a painting on his easel titled "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address." He wears overalls and holds a palette and brush. The walls are lined with paintings, and there is a chest of drawers and a chair near the easel. Subject:  Portrait male -- Kane, John -- Self Portrait Portrait male -- Kane, John -- Full length Occupation -- Art -- Painter Architecture interior -- Studio -- Kane Object -- Art Tool -- Palette Object -- Art Tool -- Artist's Brush Object -- Art Object -- Painting Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Accession Number: 72.58 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Valentine Gallery, New York, New York by 1937. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York until 1966. Anonymous collection, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania until 1968. M. Knoedler & Company, New York, New York by 1969. Gift of Evans, Thomas Mellon, New York, New York 1972. References:  Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992. Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1990. Chew, Paul A., ed., "Southwestern Pennsylvania painters, 1800-1945," Greensburg, Pa.: Westmoreland County Museum of Art, 1981, no. 123. Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pg. 92. Illustration:  Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992, pg. 290. "Southwestern Pennsylvania painters, 1800-1945," Greensburg, Pa.: Westmoreland County Museum of Art, 1981, pg. 73. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 86970075   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 86970075 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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