Description

Here is a very rare and poignant early pastel on paper by Wolf Kahn (b. 1927) America's foremost landscape artist. Although the work is undated, it was created circa early 1960s, depicting his daughters Cecily and Melany. This historic, autobiographical work depicting two children is one a series of similar works Kahn did in that era. Early Wolf Kahn pastels like this one are very desirable and extremely hard to come by. Although the work is a family portrait, one can still clearly see the influence of Kahn's mentor Hans Hofmann, as well as the Impressionists whose work he emulated, in his unique adaptation of color field painting.

This unique work measures 13 1/4 x 16 1/4 (visible portion) Framed, it measures 23 inches by 21.5 inches. It is in an elegant wood frame (shown), matted with beveled edges.

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Wolf Kahn's work is in major museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is also collected by Oprah Winfrey, Robert Redford Bill and Hillary Clinton, the Bidens and many other influential people. In fact, as has been widely reported in press and a TV documentary, President Bill Clinton bought his wife Hillary several Wolf Kahn paintings for their 30th wedding anniversary.This work is a must have for serious fans and collectors of Wolf Kahn, as it represents a lesser known, but no less important, aspect of his oeuvre.

In excellent condition.

Rarely does one come across his more elusive autobiographical early works, like this poignant and telling piece, from the late 1950s and early 1960s, a most consequential era. All the hallmark's of the artist's later style are already present, such as the impressionistic use of gorgeous colors.

Wolf Kahn trained with Hans Hofmann during the late forties and is considered one of the foremost landscape artists in America. Like his mentor Hofmann, Wolf Kahn himself has inspired several generations of painters. \

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS: 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, DC Whitney Museum of American Art,New York,



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Wolf Kahn is considered the premiur landscape artist in America today - bar none. Working in oil and pastel, the German-born painter Wolf Kahn brings the openness and vividness of Color Field painting to depictions of landscape. Fields and skies are defined by strong bands of bright, almost hallucinatory color, which may or may not correspond to reality. Critics have compared him to Mark Rothko and to the 19th-century Luminists.



Kahn emerged in the 1950s, after studying with the New York school painter Hans Hoffman, and has a long history of museum and gallery exhibitions, including solo shows at the San Diego Museum of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum. His awards include a Fulbright Scholarship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.