WOLF KAHN 2024

Remembering Wolf

The world has lost perhaps the most beloved and respected American painter of the last 60 years. Wolf Kahn touched thousands of lives as a friend, teacher, patron, brilliant colorist and scrubber: Scrub, scrub, scrub. I’m not a painter, I’m a scrubber. There are few artists who could produce such an emotional and visceral response to the viewing of his works. All of this will be part of his enormous legacy. I was privileged to know Wolf for over forty years. I loved him and miss him dearly, but I take joy in his phenomenal life and how much he contributed to all of us. Take a moment to pass by an old barn along the road or look up into a stand of trees. Wolf will be right there.

Jerald Melberg

Wolf Kahn and Jerald Melberg, Brattleboro, VT, 2000

Remembering Wolf

January 13 - March 2, 2024

625 South Sharon Amity Road Charlotte, NC 28211 704.365.3000 gallery@jeraldmelberg.com www.jeraldmelberg.com

HARD-WORKED PASTEL 1961 Pastel on Paper 14 x 16 5/8 inches

NEAR OAK BLUFFS 1965 Pastel on Paper 11 x 13 5/8 inches

MY STUDIO IN SPOLETO 1958 Pastel on Paper 13 7/8 x 17 inches

SCRUBBY COUNTRYSIDE (ITALY) 1958 Pastel on Paper 13 7/8 x 17 inches

SUGARHOUSE 2007 Oil on Canvas 26 x 32 inches

I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

RIVERRUN 2007 Pastel on Paper 22 x 30 inches

BLUE-GREEN GROUND 2004 Pastel on Paper 7 x 11 1/2 inches

WINDBREAK II 2000 Pastel on Paper 7 x 9 5/8 inches

DOWNHILL 2014 Pastel on Paper 11 x 13 1/2 inches

5AM IN JUNE 2013 Pastel on Paper 14 x 17 inches

EVENING GLORY OF LIGHT 1994 Pastel on Paper 9 x 12 inches

GAP: ORANGE & BLUE 2006 Pastel on Paper 9 x 12 inches

ORANGE AND PURPLE 2015 Pastel on Paper 15 x 22 inches

PRIVET HEDGE IN AUTUMN 2013 Pastel on Paper 14 x 17 1/2 inches

RED CHIMNEY 2000 Pastel on Paper 11 x 14 inches

THE STARK ROAD 1999-2000 Pastel on Paper 12 x 12 inches

BUSHES AND TREES 2007 Pastel on Paper 21 x 27 inches

SUMMER PASTURE 2005 Pastel on Paper 9 x 12 inches

CORNER IN A FIELD c. 1970-80 Pastel on Paper 12 x 18 inches

HOUSE BY THE RIVER 1965 Pastel on Paper 9 x 12 inches

IN OAK BLUFFS 1965 Pastel on Paper 9 x 12 inches

A “PASS” (CLAM PASS NAPLES, FL) 1997 Pastel on Paper 9 x 12 inches

ON THE WATER NEAR PUTNEY 1976 Pastel on Paper 12 x 18 inches

Study for TRACK ALONG THE CONNECTICUT 1979 Pastel on Paper 14 x 17 inches

SOUTHWEST HARBOR, DEER ISLE, ME 1962 Pastel on Paper 14 x 17 inches

DUNKLEE BARN (SMALL VERSION) 2007 Oil on Canvas 26 x 32 inches

To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.

BARN AT NIGHTFALL 1976 Pastel on Paper 15 x 20 inches

Study for AN EARLY BARN PAINTING 1966 Pastel on Paper 12 x 9 inches

ATTACHED ARCHITECTURE 1976 Pastel on Paper 11 x 14 inches

SIDE ENTRANCE 1980 Pastel on Paper 15 x 20 inches

HIGH BARN 1981 Pastel on Paper 15 x 20 inches

BARN HEAD ON (STUDY) 1972 Pastel on Paper 9 x 12 inches

BIG GRAY BARN WITH A SHADOW 2007 Pastel on Paper 30 x 27 inches

LOOKING DOWN FROM THE BARN 1976 Pastel on Paper 11 x 14 inches

WHITE ROOF (BRATTLEBORO, VT) 1997-98 Pastel on Paper 14 x 11 inches

IN CORFU 1985 Pastel on Paper 9 1/2 x 17 inches

BARN ATOP A HILL 1969 Pastel on Paper 11 x 14 inches

GAMBREL ROOF BARN 1970 Pastel on Paper 8 x 9 1/2 inches

First Exploration for BARN ON A RIDGE 1969 Pastel on Paper 11 x 14 inches

AMY’S HOUSE (SMALL VERSION) 2007 Oil on Canvas 20 x 32 inches

WOLF KAHN (1927-2020)

Born in Stuttgart, Germany, and then immigrating to the United States at age 13, Wolf Kahn is considered by many to be the premier landscape painter in America. A master of both pastel and oil, Kahn is an artist who embodies the synthesis of his modern abstract training under Hans Hofmann, with the palette of Matisse, Rothko’s sweeping bands of color, and the atmospheric qualities of Impressionism. It is precisely this fusion of color, spontaneity and representation that has produced such a rich and expressive body of work with unmatched luminosity. Kahn has been honored with numerous awards, including the International Medal of Arts from the United States Department of State and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Design and School of Fine Arts. His works are in the permanent collections of nearly every major American museum including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Hirschhorn Museum.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition

Remembering Wolf January 13 - March 2, 2024

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