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Snow Treasure - Marie McSwigan...
...Kane was unknown as an artist until he was past 60. He died in 1934 at 74. This week the rugged, blue-eyed, peg-legged man's extraordinary autobiography, Sky Hooks,* is finally published as it was told to his friend, Marie McSwigan...
Kane was lucky in a few of the many people who took him up toward the end of his hard life. He was lucky in Miss McSwigan. As a reporter on the Pittsburgh Press she interviewed him in 1927 when the Carnegie International Exhibition first accepted a Kane painting. During the last two years of his life she spent two or three evenings a week in the cluttered Kane parlor, filling four big composition books with his reminiscences. A work of taste as well as devotion in its straightforward arrangement, Sky Hooks is as faithful a mirror of Kane...
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