Wolf Kahn Art
German, 1927-2020
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)
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Artist: Wolf Kahn
Dealer: Alpha 137 Gallery
Untitled color field landscape with lake (unique, pencil signed monotype)
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Untitled color field landscape, 1990
Monotype on paper (unique)
Pencil signed and dated by Wolf Kahn on the front
Frame included: held ...
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1990s Contemporary Wolf Kahn Art
Materials
Screen, Monoprint, Lithograph, Pencil, Monotype
Barn in wooded landscape, unique signed pastel, from the Allan Stone Collection
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Wolf Kahn Art
Materials
Pastel, Oil Pastel
Brattleboro Seen as a Flugstadt, signed, unique, Provenance: Brattleboro Museum)
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
1980s Color-Field Wolf Kahn Art
Materials
Pastel
Hardback monograph with dust jacket: Wolf Kahn (hand signed by Wolf Kahn)
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn (hand signed by Wolf Kahn), 2011
Hardback monograph with dust jacket (hand signed by Wolf Kahn)
Hand signed by Wolf Kahn on the title page
13 × 12 × 1 1/2 inches
This gorge...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wolf Kahn Art
Materials
Ink, Offset, Lithograph, Mixed Media, Paper
Ocean Cove unique signed pastel painting by America's foremost landscape painter
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
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...
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1990s Contemporary Wolf Kahn Art
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Blau-Grün (Blue-Green) unique pastel painting signed, authenticated, Framed
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Wolf Kahn Art
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Pastel, Oil Pastel
Secret Meadow (signed twice with inscription to art critic) letter of provenance
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
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...
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1970s Contemporary Wolf Kahn Art
Materials
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Wolf Kahn Pastels (monograph with slip case, hand signed and numbered)
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn Pastels (monograph with slip case, hand signed and numbered), 2000
Hardback monograph with slipcase and dust jacket (hand signed and number...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Wolf Kahn Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Roughly Textured Trees (unique signed landscape color field pastel painting)
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wolf Kahn Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pastel
Red Barns
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Red Barns, 1980
Color Lithograph on wove paper
Hand signed, dated, and numbered 45/50 by the artist on the front
Original vintage wood frame included
Classic 1980 Wolf Kahn...
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1980s Color-Field Wolf Kahn Art
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Melany the artist's daughter signed pastel painting with original gallery label
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
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 ...
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1970s Modern Wolf Kahn Art
Materials
Pastel
Bay with Boats
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Bay with Boats, 1987
Color monotype on Somerset white wove paper
Hand signed and dated by Wolf Kahn on the lower right front, bears labels on the back
Frame Included: matte...
Category
1980s Contemporary Wolf Kahn Art
Materials
Monotype, Pencil, Lithograph
The Red Barn (New Hampshire Sugar House) original pastel painting
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wolf Kahn Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pastel
Wolf Kahn's America (Hand signed and inscribed illustrated hardback monograph)
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Wolf Kahn's America (Hand signed and inscribed), 2003
Hand signed and dedicated hardback monograph with dust jacket
Boldly signed in ink with heartfelt personal dedication ...
Category
Early 2000s Color-Field Wolf Kahn Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Emily & The Baby II (Grace Borgenicht Gallery)
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
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...
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1960s Realist Wolf Kahn Art
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Pastel
Memorial Bridge, Springfield, Mass
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Untitled, 1982
Original Etching
10 × 15 inches
Edition AP (aside from the regular edition of 90)
pencil signed, dated and inscribed to Cynthia
Frame included: Ships framed...
Category
1980s Realist Wolf Kahn Art
Materials
Etching
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