Wolf Kahn Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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...

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...

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...

Wolf Kahn Untitled color field landscape, 1990 Monotype on paper (unique) Pencil signed and dated by Wolf Kahn on the front Frame included: held ...

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: original vintage frame 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Wolf Kahn Melany (The Artist's Daughter), 1970 Pastel on paper painting Hand signed by Wolf Kahn on the front Unique Frame included: newly matted and framed in a museum quality wood ...

"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 ...

Wolf Kahn Emily & The Baby II (Grace Borgenicht Gallery), 1960 Pastel on Paper. Hand signed by the artist on the front. Grace Borgenicht gallery label on the back Vintage frame inclu...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

Wolf Kahn Red Edge, 1998 Pastel on paper 22 1/2 x 30 inches 57.2 x 76.2 cm Signed: "W Kahn" (lower center recto) -- Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1927, Wolf Kahn fled Nazi Germany ...

Wolf Kahn Dark Diagonal, 1979 Pastel on paper 22 3/8 x 30 inches 56.8 x 76.2 cm Signed: "W Kahn" (lower right recto) -- Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1927, Wolf Kahn fled Nazi Germ...

WOLF KAHN Rising Road Behind Trees, 2005 Pastel on paper 19 3/4 x 25 inches 50.2 x 63.5 cm Signed: "W Kahn" (lower left recto) Color-field landscape painting of trees against a brig...

WOLF KAHN Gray Foliage, 2007 Pastel on paper 19 x 25 inches 48.3 x 63.5 cm Color-field landscape painting of trees against a light orange by Wolf Kahn. -- Born in Stuttgart, Germ...

WOLF KAHN Dark Triangle in the Fall, 2004 Pastel on paper 11 x 14 inches 27.9 x 35.6 cm Signed: W Kahn (lower center recto) Color-field landscape painting of trees against a bright...

WOLF KAHN Brilliant Landscape, 1991 Pastel on paper 21 x 29 inches 53.3 x 73.7 cm Signed: "W Kahn" (lower right recto) Color-field landscape painting of a house underneath trees and...