Background
Kane, Patricia Ellen was born on April 4, 1944 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of James Edmund and Alice (Arsenault) Kane.
Kane, Patricia Ellen was born on April 4, 1944 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of James Edmund and Alice (Arsenault) Kane.
Bachelor, Chatham College, 1966. Master of Arts in Early American Culture, University Delaware, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, Yale University, 1987.
Assistant curator Garvan and related collections American art, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 1968-1974;
associate curator Garvan and related collections American art, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 1974-1978;
curator decorative arts, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, since 1978. Lecturer Yale University, 1976, 90, Boston University/Museum Fine Arts, 1976. Member American arts advising committee Virginia Museum Fine Arts, 1977-1978.
Member Executive Committee Center for American Art and Material Culture, 1979-1981. Member of advisory committee Historic Deerfield, Inc., since 1985. Member fine arts committee Mattatuck Museum, since 1990.
Board of directors Chipstone Foundation, 1988-1990. Member American Association Museum, American Ceramics Circuit, Society Architectural Historians, Society.Winterthur Graduates (vice president 1975-1976), Boston Society Arts and Crafts, Decorative Arts Society (chairman Charles F. Montgomery award committee 1979-1981, president 1981-1983), Furniture History Society, Regional Furniture Society, New Eng.Hist. Genealogical Society, Connecticut History Society (music committee since 1991), New Haven Colony History Society (music committee since 1970), Winterthur Guild.
Married Walter Scott Braznell, July 21, 1977.