WK 100 Initiative

The Wolf Kahn Foundation is pleased to announce the Wolf Kahn 100 initiative, a nationwide celebration of the centenary of the artist's birth in 2027. Throughout the year, museums across the country will show their Wolf Kahn paintings and works on paper in special exhibitions, collection rotations, and by appointment in study centers.

Biography

Capturing the way in which light coalesces around form, substantiating or dissolving it, is a central theme in Wolf Kahn's painting. His work is recognized to masterfully balance the sensuous qualities of color, light, and paint with a relatively stark geometry of form, giving free reign to complex investigations of perception. Possessing an exceptional ability to discern fleeting atmospheric effects, he gave them presence in a two-dimensional world. His canvases are palpably about place, and yet they transcend mere description.

Photograph by Christopher Burke, courtesy of Miles McEnery Gallery