Morrison Gallery’s Wolf Kahn Extended, New Works Added

KENT — An exhibit at Morrison Gallery of recent works by Wolf Kahn, considered by many critics to be the premier landscape painter in America, has been extended to December 30 and 20 new paintings have been added to the show.

“The show has attracted enormous attention from serious art collectors and many more casual admirers who are taking advantage of this chance to view works by one of our modern-day masters,” said Billy Morrison, proprietor of the 7,000-square foot gallery where more than 40 paintings are on display. “Extending by three weeks gives even more people a chance to see this amazing show and Wolf has added to the excitement by providing 20 new paintings of various sizes.”

Mr Kahn’s work currently hangs in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum.

Mr Morrison said that each of the Kahn paintings “brings extreme beauty together with light and shadows, vertical and horizontal lines, and the most powerful, of course, the color. His oranges and greens, reds and yellows, purples and blues all seem to come to life and jump off each canvas.”

Mr Kahn was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927, where his father was director of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1939 he was sent to England with a children’s refugee transport and a year later he was able to join his family in the United States.

The artist graduated from New York’s High School of Music and Art in 1945, studied briefly with the painter Stuart Davis and, after serving in the US Navy, he studied with the renowned teacher and abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann, becoming Hofmann’s studio assistant. In 1950 he enrolled in the University of Chicago from which earned his bachelor of arts degree in just one year.

He is now considered one of the leading landscape painters of our time and is a member of the National Academy of Design and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He and his wife, the painter Emily Mason, divide their time between New York City and their farm near Brattleboro, Vt.

The Morrison Gallery will open a group exhibit featuring works by local artists on January 19.

The gallery is at 8 Barn Road, within the Kent Village Barns complex (near the intersection of routes 7 and 341). Hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 10:30 am until 5:30 pm, and Sunday from 1 to 4 pm. For more information on the gallery visit TheMorrisonGallery.com or call 860-927-4501.