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The first part of Wolf Kahn: Sizing Up will focus on the artist’s recent large-scale paintings (some of which are almost eight feet wide; among the largest works of his career). In her catalogue essay, Karen Wilkin describes these paintings as a “group of bold surprising pictures… the open fields and gentle thickets have all but vanished. In place of this familiar farm landscape are confrontational expanses of generously scaled, vigorous, multidirectional marks, often white against intense color, that demand to be read as potent equivalents for growth, wild places, and relatively undisciplined nature.” The second part of Sizing Up, an exhibition of related pastels, will open on June 7th. Wolf Kahn’s paintings and pastels are characterized by their unique and gorgeous color—a trademark of the artist—as well as their blend of spontaneous realism and American Impressionism with the formal discipline of Color Field painting.
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WOLF KAHNSIZING UP
PASTELS
7 June – 27 July 2007
20 West 57th Street New York, New York 10019tel: 212 445 0051 fax: 212 445 0102 www.ameringer-yohe.com
www.wolfkahn.com
olf Kahn has described the medium of pastel as “the dust on butterflies’wings; it is the milkiness of the haze over Venice or the velvet darkness of
a barn’s interior seen through open doors on a brilliant summer day.” Alsoas poignant are the words of another seminal and significant artist, William Blake,who so eloquently addressed the issue of scale when he penned “To see a World ina grain of sand, and a Heaven in a wild flower.” It is with great pride and honor thatwe present this exhibition of recent pastels and invite you, through these intimateworks on paper, to enter and see Wolf Kahn’s timeless world.
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Lemon Yellow, 2006, pastel on paper, 20 x 26 inches, 50.8 x 66 cm 54 More Magenta, 2006, pastel on paper, 21 x 26 inches, 53.3 x 66 cm
76 Orange Before Yellow, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm Raggedy, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm
8 Three Dark Trees, 2006, pastel on paper, 30 x 40 inches, 76.2 x 101.6 cm
1110 Hints of Violet, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm Dark Green in a Landscape, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm
1312 Looking over a Barn, 2007, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm Saplings, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm
14 Big Red Barn with a Shadow, 2007, pastel on paper, 30 x 30 inches, 76.2 x 76.2 cm
1716 Purple Trees, 2006, pastel on paper, 21 x 26 inches, 53.3 x 66 cm Broadside of the Barn, 2006, pastel on paper, 21 x 26 inches, 53.3 x 66 cm
Red Ground, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm 1918 More Orange, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm
Green Ground, 2005, pastel on paper, 30 x 44 inches, 76.2 x 101.6 cm20
2322 Through a Range of Colors, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm Connecticut River – Fall View, 2006–07, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm
Upper Road, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 141/2 inches, 55.9 x 36.8 cm 2524 Dark Long Island Barns, 2004, pastel on paper, 14 x 17 inches, 35.6 x 43.2 cm
26 On the Matt Farm, 2006, pastel on paper, 30 x 40 inches, 76.2 x 101.6 cm
Red Cabin, 2006, pastel on paper, 171/2 x 201/2 inches, 44.5 x 52.1 cm 2928 Toned Down, 2006, pastel on paper, 171/2 x 201/2 inches, 44.5 x 52.1 cm
Yellow Ground, Purple Background, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm 3130 Wine Red Land, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm
32 Chocolate, 2006, pastel on paper, 30 x 40 inches, 76.2 x 101.6 cm
3534 Barn with White Doors, 2007, pastel on paper, 27 x 37 inches, 68.6 x 94 cm New Woods, 2007, pastel on paper, 27 x 37 inches, 68.6 x 94 cm
Melancholy, 4 p.m., 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm 3736 Settlement, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm
38 In Westminster, VT, Near the Bridge, 2006, pastel on paper, 30 x 40 inches, 76.2 x 101.6 cm
4140 My Barn in Early October, 2006, pastel on paper, 14 x 17 inches, 35.6 x 43.2 cm Fall Color, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm
4342 Red/Violet/Dense, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm Lots of Blue, 2006, pastel on paper, 30 x 22 inches, 76.2 x 55.9 cm
44 Light Green Gap, 2006, pastel on paper, 30 x 40 inches, 76.2 x 101.6 cm
4746 New Barn, 2006, pastel on paper, 21 x 26 inches, 53.3 x 66 cmEarly Sam Francis Blue Inspired, 2006, pastel on paper, 20 x 26 inches, 50.8 x 66 cm
4948 Black Trees Near a Clearing, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm Honey Locusts, 2006, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm
50 Red and Green, 2007, pastel on paper, 30 x 44 inches, 76.2 x 111.8 cm
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition
WOLF KAHNSIZING UPPASTELS
7 June – 27 July 2007
Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art
20 West 57th Street
New York, New York 10019
tel: 212 445 0051 fax: 212 445 0102
www.ameringer-yohe.com
www.wolfkahn.com
Color plate photography by Jordan Tinker.
Catalogue designed by HHA Design, New York
Printed by Paola Gribaudo, Torino, Italy
Publication copyright © 2007 Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art
All rights reserved
ISBN: 978-0-9793300-2-5
978-0-9793300-3-2 (2 volume set)
Cover: Green Ground (detail)
Slipcase: Seaweed Fingers (detail)
