Wolf Kahn

Stremmel Gallery
1400 S. Virginia Street
Reno, Nevada

Gallery hours: Monday through Friday | 9:00 am — 5:30 pm,
Saturday | 10 am — 3 pm.

On Thursday, December 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Stremmel Gallery will host an opening reception for an exhibition of new works by New York artist Wolf Kahn.

Kahn's use of color "has placed him at the forefront of American representational Art, and has made him one of the most highly regarded colorists working in America today." Turning 80 years old this year, Kahn continues to focus on the landscape as his subject, simplifying and creating planes of color to form abstracted images. Kahn views his landscapes as "meditations on the world in which color relates light with subject, and in which horizons, nature's dividing lines, are seamless fusions between sky and land."

Wolf Kahn was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1927, and escaped Nazi Germany in 1939 at the age of 12. He moved to the United States, where he attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City. After his discharge from the Navy, he studied with Hans Hoffmann in New York and Provincetown, becoming Hoffmann's studio assistant. In 1951 he received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago, completing his degree in just one year. He has received a Fulbright Scholarship, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, at the Cooper Union Art School, and at Dartmouth College. His works are in the permanent collections of major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. In September 1996, a comprehensive monograph on Kahn's paintings was published, followed in 2000 by a second, this time on his pastels. Both were published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

The show will continue through January 5.

[Image from gallery Web site. Caption:
In a Park
oil on canvas
52 x 72 inches]