Bob Kane

Bob Paul Kane (1937 – 2013) was an American painter known for his gestural style, vibrant colors, and festive subject matter.

Early life and education Kane was born in Cleveland, Ohio. As a child he attended the Cleveland Museum School, where he was exposed to drawing and painting; and later the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1953–54. In 1955 he enrolled at Cornell University, but left a year later to pursue painting, heading to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and accepted a one-year scholarship to Pratt Institute in 1958. Her work as a textile designer, It was there he met some actors who later collected his work, including Frederic Kimball. Paul Benedict also bought many of Kane’s paintings as gifts for theater friends and wedding presents.

Exhibitions

Kane presented solo exhibitions at Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York, Ankrum Gallery in Los Angeles, Galerie Marcel Bernheim in Paris, the Musée de St. Paul de Vence in France, the American Embassy in Tokyo, Japan and Berne, Switzerland.

His works are included in more than 30 museums' permanent collections. The most recent inclusions were at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2011) and the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida (2012).