Wolf K ahn
17 September — 01 November 2026
Wo l f K ahn
MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY
Wo l f K ahn Spanning 2014 to 2020 and created during the penultimate
completed high school and enrolled in the Navy. Following his
period of his career, these works offer an intimate view of Kahn’s
service, he studied with the legendary teacher and Abstract
enduring engagement with color, light, and the landscape.
Expressionist painter Hans Hofmann, before becoming his studio assistant. In 1950, he enrolled at the University of Chicago and
Throughout
his
long
language
of
Working
between
transformed
career,
luminous familiar
color
Kahn
developed
and
expressive
representation landscapes
into
and
a
distinctive
completed his Bachelor of Arts degree within one year. In 1957,
observation.
Kahn married artist Emily Mason. The pair lived and worked
abstraction,
paintings
defined
he
between New York City and West Brattleboro, VT. In March
as
2020, Wolf Kahn passed away at the age of 92 in New York, NY.
much by sensation as by place. The small scale of these works brings this exploration into close focus, emphasizing Kahn’s
Wolf Kahn’s work has been exhibited at galleries and museums
sensitivity to fleeting changes in light, atmosphere, and color.
throughout North America. He was the recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award
Made during the final years of Kahn’s life, the paintings
in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the
reveal an artist continuing to pursue the possibilities of the
Medal of Arts from the State Department. His work is held in
landscape with curiosity and conviction. Together, they provide
important museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum
a focused look at a late chapter in Kahn’s celebrated career.
of Art, New York, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Museum
Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1927, Wolf Kahn fled Nazi
of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Germany to Britain through the Kindertransport in the late
Garden; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA;
1930s. He eventually settled in the United States, where he
and The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Burnt Sienna Ground , 2016 Oil on canvas 24 x 26 inches
Surprising Gray/Blue Sky , 2016 Oil on canvas 24 x 26 inches
White Barn on a Ridge , 2018 Oil on canvas 28 x 26 inches
Square Painting with Low Trees , 2016 Oil on canvas 20 x 22 inches
Barn in Distance , 2018 Oil on canvas 22 x 28 inches
Predominately Chocolate Color , 2018 Oil on canvas 28 x 22 inches
Small Tree Painting , 2018 Oil on canvas 12 x 18 inches
Arboretum , 2018 Oil on canvas 18 x 12 inches
Red and Green , 2019 Oil on canvas 22 x 20 inches
Small Square , 2019 Oil on canvas 9 x 9 inches
Pink Edge , 2019 Oil on canvas 12 x 18 inches
Corner of the Pasture in Burnt Siena , 2015 Oil on canvas 10 x 18 inches
Red, Green, Orange , 2019 Oil on canvas 24 x 22 inches
White Sky , 2019 Oil on canvas 19 x 16 inches
Red, Green, and Olive , 2019 Oil on canvas 22 x 19 inches
Untitled (Orange Trunks) , 2020 Oil on canvas 17 x 19 inches
White Trunks, small version , 2015 Oil on canvas 18 x 14 inches
Square Purple Painting , 2015 Oil on canvas 19 x 19 inches
Dark Horizon Line , 2016 Oil on canvas 10 x 16 inches
White Shed in a Meadow , 2016 Oil on canvas 12 x 18 inches
Blue Sea , 2018 Oil on canvas 26 x 28 inches
Near My Studio , 2018 Oil on canvas 22 x 27 inches
Untitled (Black Trees) , 2020 Oil on canvas 20 x 26 inches
Trees in a Gray-Blue Mode , 2014 Oil on canvas 18 x 32 inches
Camel’s Hump , 2015 Oil on canvas 22 x 22 inches
Orange Corner , 2015 Oil on canvas 14 x 24 inches
Orange Hill , 2014 Oil on canvas 22 x 28 inches
Low Growth , 2014 Oil on canvas 22 x 28 inches
Small, Square, and Mostly Yellow , 2018 Oil on canvas 22 x 22 inches
From Green to Gray , 2018 Oil on canvas 13 x 13 inches
Tree on a Rise , 2018 Oil on canvas 10 x 16 inches
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This catalog complements Wolf Kahn’s exhibition at Maya Frodeman Gallery 17 September - 01 November 2026
Images courtesy of Miles McEnery Gallery
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Barn in Distance, (detail), Oil on canvas
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