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Santa Fe

Wolf Kahn

(American/German, 1927–2020)

barn with blue shadows by wolf kahn

Wolf Kahn

Barn with Blue Shadows, 1984

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barn in a summer haze by wolf kahn

Wolf Kahn

Barn in a Summer Haze, 1984

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field in half light by wolf kahn

Wolf Kahn

Field in Half Light, 1979

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Biography

Timeline

1927
Born in Stuttgart, Germany
1940
Immigrated to the United States by way of England
1945
Graduated from the High School of Music and Art, New York, NY
1947
Studied at Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art
1951
Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1962
Fullbright Scholorship to Italy
1966 - 1967
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1979
Award in art from the Amrican Academy of Arts and Letters
1980
Elected to membership, National Board of the College Art Association
1982
Elected to Board, National Academy of Design

Exhibitions

2010
Wolf Kahn: Refractions of Light, Paintings and Pastels, Tayloepiggott Gallery, Jackson, USA (solo)
2009
Wolf Kahn: Pastels, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, USA (solo)
Wolf Kahn: Paintings and Pastels, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C. (solo)
Wolf Kahn, Toward The Larger View: A Painter's Process, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe , New York, USA (solo)
2007
Yosemite - Art of an American Icon, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, USA
Wolf Kahn: Sizing Up: Part II Pastels, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, USA (solo)
Wolf Kahn: Celebrating 80 Years, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, USA (solo)
Wolf Kahn: Sizing Up: Part I Paintings - Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe , New York, USA (solo)
Home Turf, Mulry Fine Art, West Palm Beach, USA
Back to the Future: Contemporary American Art from the Collection, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, USA
2006
Wolf Kahn: Color & Light - Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, USA (solo)
Vision in Granite, The Banks Gallery, Portsmouth, USA
The John and Mary Lou Paxton Collection, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA
Wolf Kahn's Barns, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, USA (solo)
2005
Wolf Kahn, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe , New York, USA (solo)
Wolf Kahn Summertime Pastels, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, USA (solo)
Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Forum Gallery - Los Angeles, USA
The Monoprint in Three Directions, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, USA
2004
Art In The New Us Embassy In Bulgaria, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Wolf Kahn's America An Artist’s Travels, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, USA
2003
Wolf Kahn: Continuity & Change, Paintings and Works on Paper 1958 - 66, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, USA (solo)
2002
Wolf Kahn at Seventy-Five, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, USA (solo)
2001
Invited! Works on Paper - First Street Gallery, New York, USA
2000
Wolf Kahn: Fifty Years of Pastels - Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, USA

Public Collections

Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts-Houston, Houston, TX
National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Broooklyn, NY
The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Whitney Museum of American Art,New York, NY
English (US)

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