George MacD. Kane
Born 29 October 1889
Died 1954
Active: 1907 - 1915
Country of birth and death: Ireland
Sculptor
Born Belfast. Worked as railway clerk while attending classes at Belfast School of Art. 1907-8 worked as architect's apprentice, worked with architect firm Blackwood & Jury. Became qualified architect 1913.
Works
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John Whaley, Esq.
1912 (Presumed)
Head of a Boy
1915
Father
1915
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Ninth, 1915
Multiple works
Exhibited at Ulster Arts Club 7th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1912
1912
Institutional and Business Connections
Received scholarship from Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin
Won Dunville scholarship
Student at Belfast School of Art
Personal and Professional Connections
Assisted James Pittendrigh MacGillivray
Assisted with work on the Gladstone Memorial
Employed as studio assistant Samuel Ferres Lynn
Worked with (James) Seamus Stoupe
Sources
Catalogue of The Ulster Arts Club 7th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1912
1912
Citing this record
'George MacD. Kane', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib3_1257711477, accessed 30 May 2023]
