WOLF KAHN
19 JULY — 14 AUGUST 2016
WOLF KAHN R E C E NT PA I NT I N G S
OPENING RECEPTION Tuesday July 19th 6 to 8pm
TAYLOE PIGGOTT GALLERY 62 SOUTH GLENWOOD STREET JACKSON HOLE WYOMING TEL 307 733 0555 TAYLOEPIGGOTTGALLERY.COM
LONG AND LOW, 2016 Oil on canvas 36 x 84 inches
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PALE GRAY AT THE HORIZON, 2016 Oil on canvas 36 x 52 inches
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WINCHESTER BARN, 2015 Oil on canvas 52 x 52 inches
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BLUE TO YELLOW THROUGH GREEN, 2016 Oil on canvas 52 x 52 inches
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POPLARS ON THE HORIZON, 2015 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches
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NARROW AND TALL, 2014 Oil on canvas 32 x 16 inches
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GREEN BOTTOM, 2014 Oil on canvas 26 x 16 inches
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BROAD GRAY SKY, 2014 Oil on canvas 24 x 26 inches
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DISTANT GREEN, 2015 Oil on canvas 34 x 52 inches
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IN THE SUBURBS, 2015 Oil on canvas 24 x 28 inches
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UNDER TALL TREES, 2005 Oil on canvas 28 x 30 inches
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BUSHES, 2016 Oil on canvas 22 x 20 inches
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MATT FARM II, 2013 Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches
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SMALL MELANCHOLY, 2012 Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches
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STEEP, 2013 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches
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BEFORE DAWN, 2015 Oil on canvas 19 x 19 inches
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YELLOW DIAGONAL, 2015 Oil on canvas 18 x 18 inches
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GREEN LANDSCAPE WITH GREENHOUSE, 2012 Oil on canvas 64 x 84 inches
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WOLF KAHN Wolf Kahn is regarded as one of the most highly respected American colorists working today. By blurring boundaries between pictorial landscape and painterly abstraction, he evokes an ethereal world, a world marked by epiphanies. Kahn centers his painting on the way masses of saturated hues can be made to “push and pull” each other into space. A summer sunset blazes in fiery red; a thicket of trees is distilled to its most elemental state, silhouetted by luminous yellow light. Kahn takes scenery that is once universal and transforms shape and color into something wholly unique. Born in Germany in 1927 and fleeing to England during World War II, Kahn ultimately immigrated with his family to New York City. He studied with the seminal Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann and eventually become his studio assistant. Although Kahn came of age immersed in Abstract Expressionism he veered from his peers and turned to nature for inspiration. His work is included in preeminent private and public collections: in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Jewish Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and both the Hirshhorn Museum and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. Kahn is a member of the National Academy of Design and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of numerous awards including a Fulbright Scholarship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
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