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Wolf Kahn Biography
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1927 |
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Born: Stuttgart, Germany
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1940 |
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Immigrated to the United States by way of England
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1945 |
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Graduated from the High School of Music and Art, New York, NY
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1947 |
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Studied at Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art
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1951 |
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Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1962 |
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Received a Fullbright Scholorship to Italy
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1966 - 1967 |
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Received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
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1979 |
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Received an award in art from the Amrican Academy of Arts and Letters
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1980 |
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Elected to membership, National Board of the College Art Association
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1982 |
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Elected to Board, National Academy of Design
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1984 |
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Elected to membership, American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters
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1998 |
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Was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Vermont Council on the Arts
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Lives and works in New York, NY and Brattleboro, VT
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2010
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Wolf Kahn: Refractions of Light, Paintings and Pastels, Tayloepiggott Gallery, Jackson, WY (solo)
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2009
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Wolf Kahn: Pastels, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC (solo)
Wolf Kahn: Paintings and Pastels. Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC (solo)
Wolf Kahn, Toward The Larger View: A Painter's Process, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe , New York, NY (solo)
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2007
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Yosemite - Art of an American Icon, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Wolf Kahn: Sizing Up: Part II Pastels, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
Wolf Kahn: Celebrating 80 Years, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC (solo)
Wolf Kahn: Sizing Up: Part I Paintings - Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe , New York, NY (solo)
Home Turf, Mulry Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Back to the Future: Contemporary American Art from the Collection, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
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2006
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Wolf Kahn: Color & Light - Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL (solo)
Vision in Granite, The Banks Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
The John and Mary Lou Paxton Collection, Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV
Wolf Kahn's Barns, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC (solo)
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2005
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Wolf Kahn, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe , New York, NY (solo)
Wolf Kahn Summertime Pastels, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC (solo)
Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Forum Gallery - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
The Monoprint in Three Directions, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
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2004
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Art In The New Us Embassy In Bulgaria, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Wolf Kahn's America An Artist’s Travels, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
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2003
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Wolf Kahn: Continuity & Change, Paintings and Works on Paper 1958 - 66, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
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2002
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Wolf Kahn at Seventy-Five, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC (solo)
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2001
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Invited! Works on Paper - First Street Gallery, New York, NY
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2000
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Wolf Kahn: Fifty Years of Pastels - Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
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1999
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Wolf Kahn: Southern Landscapes, Morris Museum of Art Augusta, GA (solo)
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1998
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Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection fr. National Museum, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
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1996
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Boca Raton Museum of Art Boca Raton, FL
Rediscovering the Landscapes of the Americas, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (& travelling to other venues)
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
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, D.C.
Whitney Museum of American Art,New York, NY
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