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Artist: Wolf Kahn
Medium: Pastel
Trees Against Brown Background, Wolf Kahn
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Wolf Kahn (1927)
Title: Trees Against Brown Background
Year: 2000
Medium: Pastel on paper
Size: 8 x 10 inches (sheet); 16 x 18 inches (frame)
Condition: Excellent
Inscription...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Secret Meadow (signed twice with inscription to art critic) letter of provenance
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Secret Meadow (signed twice with unique personal inscription to renowned art critic, with letter of provenance), 1974
Pastel on Paper - signed twice and hand inscribed, accompanied by letter of provenance
Signed lower left front, titled lower middle, and inscribed, dated and signed again on the lower middle and right front
Frame Included: elegantly matted and framed in a blond wood museum quality frame with UV plexiglass
This poignant yellow pastel landscape is by the renowned painter Wolf Kahn, whose work is famously characterized by abstraction and figuration, as his gorgeously colored landscapes transform into color fields. This particular work is special because it came from the private collection of distinguished art critic and artist Lawrence (Larry) Campbell, who received it as a gift from Wolf Kahn in 1974. It is accompanied by a hand signed and dated Letter of Provenance from Mr. Campbell's daughter which reads, "This painting has been in my home since 1974 when it was given to my father, the late Lawrence (Larry) Campbell, by the artist, Wolf Kahn. In the lower right hand corner of the painting, Mr. Kahn wrote in pencil, 'To Larry in friendship- Wolf 1974.' My father was also a painter, a Director at the Arts Students League of New York, Professor of Art at Pratt Institute & Brooklyn College and an Art Critic for Art News and Art in America Magazines, for over 50 years." The work is also hand signed by the artist, lower left, so it bears two signatures. (For security purposes, the letter is not reproduced here, but the buyer of this work will receive the original hand signed letter...
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1970s Contemporary Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Ocean Cove unique signed pastel painting by America's foremost landscape painter
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Ocean Cove, 1996
Pastel on paper painting
Hand signed and dated by Wolf Kahn on the lower right
Frame included:
matted and framed in a wood frame with UV plexiglass
This u...
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1990s Contemporary Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Brattleboro Seen as a Flugstadt (unique work acquired from Brattleboro Museum)
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Brattleboro Seen as a "Flugstadt" (European river town), 1980
Pastel on paper painting. Framed with handwritten label by the artist and Grace Borgenicht label
Hand-signed by artist, hand signed front; bears the artist's handwritten label as well as label from Grace Borgenicht verso and a sticker from original collector
Frame included
This work was acquired from the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont, which sold it to raise funds for their ongoing programming. As its title notes, it depicts the "Brattleboro Seen as a Flugstadt (European River Town)" - which has important autobiographical images. Wolf Kahn was born in Germany but he and his wife spent summers in Brattleboro Vermont...
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1980s Color-Field Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Barn in wooded landscape, unique signed pastel, from the Allan Stone Collection
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
WOLF KAHN
Untitled barn in wooded landscape ca. 1980
Pastel on Paper painting
Hand signed on the front
Provenance: from the legendary Allan Stone Collection
Frame included: held in t...
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1980s Contemporary Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Oil Pastel
Roughly Textured Trees (unique signed landscape color field pastel painting)
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Roughly Textured Trees, 1995
Oil pastel on paper
Hand signed in pastel by Wolf Kahn on the bottom front
Frame included: held in the original vintage metal frame
Hand signe...
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1990s Contemporary Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pastel
Blau-Grün (Blue-Green) unique pastel painting
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Blau-Grün (Blue-Green), 2000
Pastel painting on paper
Signed on the lower left front
Frame included: elegantly framed in a museum quality white wood frame with UV plexiglas...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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The Red Barn (New Hampshire Sugar House) original pastel painting
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Red Barn (New Hampshire Sugar House), ca. 1995
Pastel on paper painting
Hand signed by the artist lower left in pastel pencil
Frame included: elegantly matted and framed in...
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1990s Contemporary Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pastel
"Umbria, " Pastel signed by Wolf Kahn
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Umbria" is a landscape pastel by American artist Wolf Kahn. Green hills and trees dominate the composition as a light blue sky evens it out almost exactly in the middle. Titled and ...
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1970s Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Machias Seal Island Light
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Wolf Kahn was commissioned by the Smithsonian to design a postcard for them. He made four designs and they selected a singular one. This drawing here is one of the few rejected desig...
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19th Century American Impressionist Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
At Green Camp
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Greenwich, CT
Signed lower left
Born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927, Wolf Kahn immigrated to the United States by way of England in 1940. In 1945, he graduated from the High School of Music & Art...
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1970s Color-Field Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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"The Winter Valley" Purple and Brown Toned Winter Landscape Townscape
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Houston, TX
Blue, purple, and green toned winter landscape pastel drawing by German-American painter, Wolf Kahn. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Framed and matted in a gold frame...
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1980s Abstract Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
'Study for Connecticut at Putney' original pastel drawing signed by Wolf Kahn
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Study for Connecticut at Putney' is an original pastel drawing by American artist Wolf Kahn. The landscape is an exploration of color and light: it is rendered in cool blues and purples with fields of subtle yellow, the pastels treated with the same gesture as Kahn's paintbrush on a canvas. Indeed, this pastel was a study executed en plein air for a painting – the painting now sometimes called 'Bend in the River' – that he later created in the studio. This process of creating studies, selecting the best of the studies, and then recreating them as paintings was typical of Kahn's studio process and makes this pastel a significant example of the artist's creative output.
9 x 11 inches, artwork
15.5 x 18.13 inches, frame
Signed 'W. Kahn' lower right
Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting. Housed in a gold finish wood moulding.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Wolf Kahn, the youngest of four siblings, was born into a well-to-do artistic family. His father was the conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Symphony, and his mother came from a family of art collectors.(1) During 1938, Kahn took his first art lessons, but most of his initial drawings were of military or historical events. The next year Kahn was sent to England for safety following the ascendancy of Hitler to power, and in 1940, he immigrated to the United States.
In 1942, he entered New York's High School of Music and Art, and while there, he was employed by a commercial art firm doing illustrations. After a stint in the Navy, Kahn entered Hans Hofmann's school, and among his fellow students were Neil Blaine, Jane Freilicher, Allan Kaprow and Larry Rivers. His initial results were done with a dark palette and abstracted forms, and although Hofmann's style of teaching was difficult, Kahn has consistently praised him for teaching him the value of control and understanding.(2)
Kahn's first exhibition was a 1951 group show in a loft with several other artists in lower Manhattan. From this impromptu show, a group effort evolved called the Hansa Gallery Cooperative.(3) In 1953, Wolf Kahn had a one-man show at this gallery, which was reviewed by Fairfield Porter, and at this same time bolder, more vivid colors began to appear in his work. By the mid-1950's, on a summer trip to Provincetown, Kahn's paintings indicated a new direction of softening warm colors in the manner of Bonnard. He was included in Meyer Shapiro's seminal exhibition, The New York School: The Second Generation at the Jewish Museum, and by the end of the 1950s, he had developed his abstracted landscape style for which he is best known.
In 1966, he made his first "barn" painting on Martha's Vineyard that reduced the complexities of detail of the architecture to a more basic shape, a stylistic convention that is evident in the Museum's painting. Kahn has since commented frequently on his use of color as a unique and specific component of each work as the situation demands, where the gradual buildup of the colors resembles the beauty and translucent nature of pastels.(4) Since then Kahn has had one-person exhibitions at the Kansas City Art Institute, Chrysler Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums throughout the United States.
Footnotes:
1. Much of the biographical information is drawn from Justin Spring, Wolf Kahn (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996).
2. Spring, 21. Wolf Kahn draws this from a 1973 address to the College Art Association.
3. This group included Jane Wilson...
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1970s Contemporary Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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