Margaret Brassler Kane
Margaret Brassler Kane (May 25, 1909 – April 10, 2006) was an American sculptor.
A native of East Orange, New Jersey, Kane attended Syracuse University and the Art Students League of New York, and took lessons with . She won a number of prizes for her art during the 1940s. Many of her pieces depicted contemporary life, and tackled social issues of the day.[1] She was married to Arthur Ferris Kane, with whom she had a son, Jay.[citation needed] Among Kane's works is an eighteen-foot long relief in limewood depicting the history of humanity.[2] A 1937 work in Tennessee marble, Harlem Dancers, is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Margaret Brassler Kane – Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ^ Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (1990). American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8732-4.
- ^ "Harlem Dancers by Margaret Brassler Kane / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
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