M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES

WOLF KAHN

American, born 1927 (NY)

 

 

 

“COASTAL VIEW”
 Pastel on Paper

 Signed l.r.

In 22K Giltwood Finished Corner Frame

 

Provenance: Sandra Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

 

 

Museums: (37) including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Academy of Design Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum,

Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art

 

Books: (37) including

Wolf Kahn's America, An Artist's Travels, Wolf Kahn

 Wolf Kahn Pastels, Wolf Kahn

Wolf Kahn, Justin Spring

 Pastel Light, Wolf Kahn

Wolf Kahn, Landscape Painter, Sawin

Sense of Place, The Artist and the American Land, Gussow

 

Periodicals: (25) including American Artist, Art News, American Art Review, American Arts Quarterly, Pastel News,

Art in America, Art & Auction

 

Image size: 13 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.

 

Price:  Please Inquire

 

We welcome and encourage all inquiries.  We will make every attempt to answer any questions you might have.

 

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WOLF KAHN

 

Birth place: Stuttgart, Germany

 

Addresses: NYC (1940-on)/Vermont

 

Profession: Painter

 

Studied: New School for Social Research, with Stuart Davis; Hans Hofmann School, 1947-49; University of

Chicago (B.A., 1951)

 

Exhibited: American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters annuals, 1957-58, 1960, "Young America," 1961; Jewish Museum,

1957; Des Moines Art Center., 1957; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1958; Univ. Illinois biennial, 1958-60; Corcoran Gallery biennial,

1959; Pennsylvania Academy  Fine Art, 1961, 1965; Pennsylvania Academy Fine Art Annual, 1962; Dallas Museum Contemporary

Art, 1962; Modern Museum Art, 1963; Kansas City Art Institute, 1963; Cincinnati Museum Art, 1964; "Americans in Europe,"

circulated by American Federation Arts, 1971-72; "New England Art," Institute Contemporary Art, Boston, 1972; Chrysler Museum,

1972; Metropolitan Museum Art, 1979; Corcoran Gallery, 1979; Gallery Borgenicht, NYC and Meredith Long Gallery, Houston,

1970s; RISD, 1979; San Francisco Museum Art, 1985; San Diego Museum Art, 1987; Ft. Lauderdale Museum Art, 1990; Th. Segal

Gallery, Boston, 1993 (solo). Awards: Purchase award, Ford Foundation 1963; Fulbright scholar to Italy, 1963-65;

Guggenheim fellow 1966; American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, 1977 (award)

 

Member: National Academy Design, 1980; College American Artists (Nat'l Bd., 1980-85);National Institute

Arts and Letters, 1984; NYC Art Commission, 1993

 

Work: American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters; Modern Museum Arts; Brooklyn Museum; Houston Museum Fine

Arts; St Louis Museum Arts; Cincinnati Museum Art; Dallas Museum Art; Hickory Museum Art; Dartmouth College; Jewish

Museum; Los Angeles County  Museum Art; University Rochester Memorial Gallery; Metropolitan Museum Art; Mint Museum;

National Academy Design; New Orleans Museum Art; Springfield Museum Fine Art; SUNY; University California Berkeley;

University Illinois; University Nebraska; Vermont Museum Fine Art; Williams College; Worcester Art Museum

 

Comments: Abstract landscape painter in oils and pastels. Teaching: Univ. Calif., Berkeley, 1960-61; Cooper Union Art Sch.,

1960-70s. Author: "Uses of Painting Today," in Daedalus (1969).

 

Sources: WW73; L. Campbell, In the Mist of Life," Art News (Feb, 1969); Gussow, Sense of Place (Friends of the Earth, 1972);

I. Sandler, New York School, 2nd Generation (1978); M. Saywin, biography (Taplinger Pub., 1981); Pastel Light (Station Hill Press, 1983);

exh. cat., Th. Segal Gal. (Boston, 1993); Provincetown Painters, 245; Falk, Exh. Record Series.

 

This biography is drawn from the "Who Was Who in American Art" , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.

 

 Museums:

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts USC Fisher Gallery San Diego Museum of Art Sara Roby Foundation Collection- Smithsonian Smithsonian American Art Museum The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts-Springfield Williams College Museum of Art Frederick R Weisman Art Museum Minnesota Museum of American Art The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Lauren Rogers Museum of Art The Hickory Museum of Art Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery The Morris Museum The Brooklyn Museum of Art Fresno Art Museum Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester

National Academy of Design Museum The Jewish Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Museum of Modern Art Whitney Museum of American Art Memorial Art Gallery The Parrish Art Museum Butler Institute of American Art Cheekwood Museum of Art & Botanical Garden Jack S Blanton Museum of Art Dallas Museum of Art The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Smithsonian Associates The Columbus Museum Neuberger Museum of Art Mandeville Gallery At Union College The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Kresge Art Museum Williams College Museum of Art

             

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