(June 21, 1928 – March 8, 2011)
Life and career
Born in Minnesota, Kane was raised in Waipiʻo Valley and Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, and Wisconsin. After receiving a masters degree from the University of Chicago (working at the Art Institute of Chicago), he moved to South Kona.[1]Kane's art and articles have graced such locations as the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the National Park Service and have appeared in books and major magazines, including National Geographic. Kane designed postage stamps for the U.S. Postal Service and several Pacific island nations, including the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and French Polynesia.
Kane was one of the founders of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, which engendered the historic Hokulea project, and a member of the panel of experts for the 1998 PBS program Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey.[2] He is the author of Voyage, the Discovery of Hawaiʻ (1976), Pele, Goddess of Volcanoes (1987), Voyagers (1991. Bellevue, WA: WhaleSong. ISBN 0-9627095-1-4) (2nd edition 2006), and Ancient Hawaiʻi (1997).
In 1984, Kane was selected as a "Living Treasure of Hawai'i". In the 1987 "Year of the Hawaiian Celebration", he was one of 16 selected as Po'okela (Champion). In 1998, he received the Bishop Museum's Charles Reed Bishop Medal. In 2002, he won the Hawaiʻi Book Publishers Association Award for Excellence in Book Publishing.[3] In 2005, a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) mural he painted on a custom-designed wall at Punaluʻu Beach was stolen. The painting showed life as it was 200 years earlier at the site. Thieves cut the 1973 painting out with a circular saw from a building that had been vacant after plans for the resort were discontinued.[4] In 2009, he designed a commemorative stamp for the U.S. Postal Service, celebrating 50 years of statehood for Hawaiʻi.[5] Kane died on March 8, 2011 at the age of 82.[6][7]
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