{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"9267"},"thesconceptsTechnique":{"label":"Technique","value":["http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674","http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336","http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster13041"]},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Anthony Petullo Collection"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1930"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2025     7    2"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2025.7.2"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":""},"edition":{"label":"Photo Credit","value":"American Folk Art Museum"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Oil on canvas"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Pittsburgh"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/27773/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"27773"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Girl with Doll Carriage"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Pittsburgh"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Girl with Doll Carriage is the 49th work by John Kane to enter AFAM\u2019s collection, but only the second painting. The majority of these works are double-sided sketches completed in pencil that reveal how the artist worked out composition and subject matter before taking his ideas to canvas. While these sketches are important to understanding Kane\u2019s process and shape our understanding of his painting practice, our collection does not adequately represent the artist\u2019s oeuvre. The paintings are the artist\u2019s most well-known subjects.","Vertical orientation painting of a verdant, well-groomed landscape with a young girl carefully lulls a doll to sleep rocking on a wicker chair. A nearby carriage completes her play set and a small white dog stands guard, ready to protect the young mother and child. The imaginative world of children endlessly inspired John Kane, whose own childhood was cut short at the age of eight when he began working in the shale mines of West Calder, Scotland. The painting Girl with Doll Carriage is typical of the quaint genre scenes of kids at play\u2014where young girls play in the spray of a garden sprinkler or a make-believe doctor diagnoses a friend. However, this late painting is not simply a metaphor for the artist\u2019s lost younger years or the innocence of childhood: it is also a reminder of his absence as a father to his daughter, after facing the death of his son in 1904.","Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"]},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Pittsburgh"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"157929"},"geographyState":{"value":"Pennsylvania"},"thesconceptsMaterials":{"label":"Materials","value":["http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674","http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336","http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster13041"]},"signed":{"label":"Signed","value":"lower right: 'JOHN KANE / 1930'"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"1"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"609","content":"John Kane"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Paintings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Girl with Doll Carriage is the 49th work by John Kane to enter AFAM\u2019s collection, but only the second painting. The majority of these works are double-sided sketches completed in pencil that reveal how the artist worked out composition and subject matter before taking his ideas to canvas. While these sketches are important to understanding Kane\u2019s process and shape our understanding of his painting practice, our collection does not adequately represent the artist\u2019s oeuvre. The paintings are the artist\u2019s most well-known subjects.","Vertical orientation painting of a verdant, well-groomed landscape with a young girl carefully lulls a doll to sleep rocking on a wicker chair. A nearby carriage completes her play set and a small white dog stands guard, ready to protect the young mother and child. The imaginative world of children endlessly inspired John Kane, whose own childhood was cut short at the age of eight when he began working in the shale mines of West Calder, Scotland. The painting Girl with Doll Carriage is typical of the quaint genre scenes of kids at play\u2014where young girls play in the spray of a garden sprinkler or a make-believe doctor diagnoses a friend. However, this late painting is not simply a metaphor for the artist\u2019s lost younger years or the innocence of childhood: it is also a reminder of his absence as a father to his daughter, after facing the death of his son in 1904.","Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1930"},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674","http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336","http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster13041"]},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1930"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Friday, April 10, 2026 - Sunday, September 13, 2026","exhibitionEndISODate":"2026-09-13","exhibitionID":"446","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2026-04-10","exhibitionBeginDate":"2026","exhibitionTitle":"Self-Made","exhibitionEndDate":"2026"}},"thesconceptsObjecttype":{"label":"Object Type","value":["http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674","http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336","http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster13041"]},"curatorialRemarks":{"label":"Curatorial Remarks","value":""},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"15 x 11 3/4 \" (38.1 x 29.8 cm)Frame: 19 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 2 \" (50.2 x 41.9 x 5.1 cm)"},"exhHistory":{"label":"Exhibition History","value":"John Kane Exhibition, The Knoedler Galleries, New York, September 1\u201330, 1967, no. 5. John Kane Traveling Exhibition, Galerie St. Etienne, March 1985-March 1986, no. 14 [sticker verso frame]."}}]}