John Kane

Arts & Culture

Exhibit explores Pittsburgh history through life of famed self-taught painter John Kane

Bill O'Driscoll

“Pittsburgh’s John Kane: The Life & Art of An American Workman,” which opened Saturday at the Heinz History Center, includes 37 of Kane’s passionately rendered portraits and landscapes.
Arts & Culture

A century after his breakthrough, a pioneering self-taught Pittsburgh painter returns to spotlight

Bill O'Driscoll

Scottish immigrant house-painter John Kane is the subject of a new biography and museum exhibit.