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Wolf Kahn Pastels (monograph with slip case, hand signed and numbered), 2000
Hardback monograph with slipcase and dust jacket (hand signed and numbered by Wolf Kahn)
Hand signed and numbered 616/750 by Wolf Kahn on the half title page
10 × 11 3/4 inches
This lavishly illustrated limited edition hardback monograph, held in a slip case, and signed and numbered by Wolf Kahn on the half title page would make a superb gift.
About the book:
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams; Signed, ltd. edition (September 1, 2000)
Hardcover : 156 pages with 100 illustrations including 100 plates in full color
Publisher's Blurb:
Among the artists who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s, Wolf Kahn chose not to work in the prevailing abstract mode, but instead concentrated on representation, particularly of the landscape. Kahn's remarkable work in this vein emphasizes color -- at first, in austere, tonalist images, and later in brilliant, high-keyed paintings that have established his reputation as one of the most important colorists working in America today.
Although Kahn is best known for his oil painting, knowledgeable collectors particularly prize his work in paster, an opulent medium that has offered the artist a rich, expressive vehicle for his eloquent technique. Here, in a series of thoughtful essays, Kahn discusses his work in this medium, considering its sensuous appeal, its expressive capacities, and its technical problems, and explaining the world of possibilities that it presents to the mature artist, the student, and the sensitive viewer alike. The noted art historian Barbara Novak has contributed an introduction that discusses Kahn's pastels and paintings in the context of the historical evolution of American art, and of the art of our own time.
Lavishly illustrated with Kahn's own work, Wolf Kahn Pastels promises to be an invaluable source for professional artists and students alike, and a delight to the eye of the many lovers of Kahn's art.
About Wolf Kahn:
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 in New York, after which he spent time in the Navy. Under the GI Bill, he studied with renowned teacher and Abstract Expressionist painter Hans Hofmann, later becoming Hofmann’s studio assistant. In 1950, he enrolled in the University of Chicago. He graduated in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
After completing his degrees in only one year, Kahn decided to return to being a full-time artist. He and other former Hofmann students established the Hansa Gallery, a cooperative gallery where Kahn had his first solo exhibition. In 1956, he joined the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, where he exhibited regularly until 1995. Kahn has received a Fulbright Scholarship, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Award in Art from the Academy of Arts and Letters.
Traveling extensively, he has painted landscapes in Egypt, Greece, Hawaii, Italy, Kenya, Maine, Mexico, and New Mexico. He spends his summers and autumns in Vermont on a hillside farm, which he and his wife, the painter Emily Mason, have owned since 1968, but his primary residence is in New York City. They have two daughters, Cecily and Melany. Cecily Kahn is also an artist, and is married to the painter David Kapp.
The unique blend of Realism and formal discipline of Color Field painting sets the work of Wolf Kahn apart. Kahn is an artist who embodies a synthesis of artistic traits - the modern abstract training of Hans Hofmann, the palette of Matisse, Rothko’s sweeping bands of color, and the atmospheric qualities of American Impressionism. The fusion of color, spontaneity and representation has produced a rich and expressive body of work.
Wolf Kahn regularly exhibits at galleries and museums across North America. His work may be found in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Hirshhorn Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Wolf Kahn died March 15, 2020, at the age of 92, in New York, NY.
-Wolf Kahn
- Creator:Wolf Kahn (1927, German)
- Creation Year:2000
- Dimensions:Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 11.75 in (29.85 cm)
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- Condition:The book is in very good condition; minor overall handling and scuffing (it's not brand new) otherwise excellent. Pages are clean and crisp.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745213378722
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