Wolf Kahn Toward+The+Larger+View
Wolf Kahn Toward+The+Larger+View
Wolf Kahn Toward+The+Larger+View
What you see is a process, which starts from small pastel sketches and
drives toward eventual large-scale oil paintings. This activity may clarify, or
complicate, the result. A change of scale opens up new possibilities, often
allowing greater freedom of execution. Sometimes color and tone are
pushed to their extreme. I feel a pressure to extend limitations (although
old habits may sometimes interfere).
In the pastel that initiates this series, I recognized a balance between the
whites in the lower left and the orange band on the middle right. Over
time, this orange started to look too pretty and predictable. I determined
to push for greater severity. The image became more and more suffused
White became the
with white and quite ambiguous spatially.
principal subject of the final painting.
Study for “Early Summer Painting”, 2008, pastel on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Early Summer Painting, 2008, oil on canvas, 22 x 24 inches
Springtime Tangle, 2008, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Early Summer Painting, 2008, oil on canvas, 52 x 66 inches
L IGHT BLU E HORIZO N
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Small Study for “Blue at the Horizon” I, 2008, pastel on paper, 7 x 81/2 inches Small Study for “Blue at the Horizon” II, 2008, pastel on paper, 7 x 8 1/2 inches
Small Study for “Blue at the Horizon” III, 2008, pastel on paper, 7 x 8 1/2 inches Small Study for “Blue at the Horizon” IV, 2008, pastel on paper, 7 x 81/2 inches 11
12 Study for “Light Blue Horizon”, 2008, pastel on paper, 17 x 24 inches
Study for “Light Blue Horizon”, 2008, oil on canvas, 22 x 30 inches 13
14 Light Blue Horizon, 2008, oil on canvas, 52 x 66 inches
ORA NGE FOREGRO U ND
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Large Barn on the Dunklee Farm, 2007, pastel on paper, 14 x 17 inches On the Dunklee Farm, 2007, pastel on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Lester Dunklee’s Barn, 2007, pastel on paper, 12 x 18 inches Dunklee’s Barn in Perspective, 2007, pastel on paper, 14 x 17 inches 21
22 Dunklee Barn, 2007, oil on canvas, 42 x 52 inches
TO NES O F S P RING
How to integrate the forward trees on the left with the row of trees along
the driveway? This was the most difficult problem to solve in this series.
In the pastel, the foreground trees are too isolated. In the final painting,
I was able to integrate the trees by darkening not only them, but the
whole left side of the picture.
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Driveway Fog, 2007, pastel on paper, 12 x 18 inches 29
30 Foggy Driveway, 2008, pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches
Summer Fog, 2008, oil on canvas, 18 x 20 inches 31
32 Driveway with Locusts, 2008, oil on canvas, 40 x 52 inches
BARN IN THE CORN ER
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Study for “Filled with Foliage”, 2008, pastel on paper, 12 x 18 inches 35
36 Sky of Pale Orange, 2008, oil on canvas, 22 x 30 inches
Filled with Foliage, 2009, oil on canvas, 30 x 52 inches 37
38 Barn in the Corner, 2009, oil on canvas, 65 x 84 inches
B E FORE S U NRISE
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Mostly Austere Pink, 2008-09, pastel on paper, 15 x 22 inches 45
46 Magenta Variations, 2009, oil on canvas, 52 x 83 inches
Published on the occasion of the exhibition
WOLF KAHN
Toward the Larger View: A Painter’s Process
Credits:
Photography by Jordan Tinker
Catalogue designed by Hannah Alderfer, HHA Design
Printed by CA Design, Hong Kong
ISBN: 978-0-9820810-2-0
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