With pastels and oils, Wolf Kahn creates vivid scenes that excite the senses. He plays with the curves and wisps of natural landscapes and sometimes inserts the angular lines of man-made structures. Kahn, a German-born artist, experiments with color and season in a way that is abstract, refreshing and all his own.
As a young man, he studied under the artist Hans Hofmann and completed his Bachelor's degree at the University of Chicago in just one year.
In 1953, Wolf had his first major one-man show at the Hansa Gallery in New York.
He currently works primarily in oil and pastel and has paintings in the collections of most major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
He is married to the painter Emily Mason and currently resides in both New York City and West Brattleboro, VT.
