Wolf Kahn On Sale
1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Oil Pastel, Pastel
1970s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Monotype, Pencil, Lithograph
1980s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Paper, Pastel
1980s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel
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Giclée
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Oil, Canvas
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Pastel, Paper
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Color-Field Abstract Prints
Lithograph
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Antique Early 19th Century British Georgian Books
Paper
Late 20th Century American Art Deco Posters
Paper
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1990s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
1970s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel, Pencil, Graphite
1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Screen, Monoprint, Lithograph, Pencil, Monotype
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Oil Pastel, Pastel
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Antique 19th Century French Neoclassical Paintings
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Paper, Oil Pastel
Wolf Kahn for sale on 1stDibs
Born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927, Wolf Kahn fled Nazi Germany to Britain through the Kindertransport in the late 1930s. He eventually settled in the United States, where he completed high school and enrolled in the Navy. Following his service, he studied with the legendary teacher and Abstract Expressionist painter Hans Hofmann, eventually becoming his studio assistant.
In 1950, Kahn enrolled at the University of Chicago and completed his bachelor of arts degree within one year. He had his first solo exhibition at Hansa Gallery in New York City in 1953 and went on to be represented by Grace Borgenicht Gallery, where he exhibited regularly until 1995.
Kahn was the recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Medal of Arts from the State Department. He married the artist Emily Mason in 1957. Their marriage lasted sixty-two years until Emily’s death in December 2019, just a few months before Kahn's passing. The pair lived and worked between New York City and W. Brattleboro, Vermont.
Kahn’s work has been exhibited at galleries and museums throughout North America. His work is held in important museum collections including 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 Sculpture Garden; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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(Biography provided by Miles McEnery Gallery)