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arranged in honor of Washington s
203d birthday anniversary and has
been hung in the ball room taken
from Gadsby's Tavern, in Alexandria,
In which were held, it will be remem-
bered, Washington's birthday balls.
The duplicates of these prints now
on view were either hanging on the
walls of Mount Vernon or contained
in a portfolio there at the time of
Washington's death. Included in the
collection are an engraving of the
painting by West OF THE Death of
Wolfe" and other military subjects
such as Trumbull's Death Of Mont
gomery" and Battle Of Bunker Hill. y
There were also engraved portraits of
Lafayette, Franklin, Gems. Greene
and Wayne and of David Rittenhouse,
director Of the mint. There is the
familiar family group comprising
Washington and Mrs. Washington, the
Gusts children and Billy Lee" his
black boy. Nor was this all. There
are classical landscapes by Claude
Lorrain, allegorical subjects and my
theological ones-"Diana Deceived by
Venus "Adonis Carried OFF by
Venus" fox hunting and sporting sub
jects more in the French than Eng
lish manner and far from fact, but
perhaps for this reason no less dear
to the lover Of horses and dogs and
the hunt. What pleasure Washing
ton must have found in assembling
these prints, purchased no doubt from
print sellers in Annapolis, Williams
burg and Charleston, who probably
sent out agents to solicit trade. The
prints were identified through the in
ventory taken of Mount Vernon at the
time of Washington's death. How in
teresting this is, and that the dupli-
cate collection is now shown in the
old, transplanted ball room so closely
associated with Washington's life!
John KANE. an exhibition of whose
work marked the recent opening
Of the new Department of Labor
Building, was working man. labor
er, and he painted his first picture
when he was 80 years of age. Born In
Scotland of Irish parents, he was
brought to this country as boy Of
and went right to work in the Penn
sylvania coal fields. He was at various
times employed in mines in West Vir-
eainia and Alabama, and also at times
worked in the steel mills. He began his
artistic career by coloring photographs
for his fellow mine workers, thereby
adding to his revenues, and not until
1910 did he paint his first picture
The loss of leg in an effort to save
q friend from being run over by q
railroad train brought about change
of occupation, and he became, first
:. sign painter and then a painter o1
box cars. All the while he continued
to paint pictures of what he saw
around him, and great must hav'
been his surprise when, in 1925. ont
of his paintings was accepted by th'
Carnegie International Exhibition
Jury and given special distinction
pierre Bonnard, so we'll represented
in the Phillips Memorial Gallery, wa
a member of the jury that year ant
he thought so highly of Kane's worl
that he bought one of his pictures
Since Kane's death several have beer
purchased by art museums and
memorial exhibition of his work ha
lately been held in New York.
Kane was entirely self-taught 1
Is said that he always wanted to q
to an art school but was unable II
for lack Of money. Also that he wa!
frequently heard to say that a maj
must look for beauty around him
Kane's paintings are not beautiful
but they are extremely simple AMI