Self-Portrait

John Kane · 1929

This one's called Self-Portrait — a painting by John Kane, nineteen twenty-nine. Kane was part of the naïve art movement. It's oil on canvas over board, about 92 by 69 centimeters.

Medium Oil on canvas over board · Dimensions 36 1/8 x 27 1/8" (91.8 x 68.9 cm) · Credit Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

Hanging beside it in The Edward Steichen Galleries: A Happy New Year, Interior White Mountains

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Self-Portrait with Palette, Self-Portrait with a Cigarette, Self-Portrait as a Golf Player, Jean Cocteau, Kenneth Fearing, Gold Marilyn Monroe

More by John Kane here: Through Coleman Hollow up the Allegheny Valley