The United Gas Pipe Line Company Collection

UGPL 0141 Kahn, Wolf, Guilford Grange, oil on canvas, 30” x 40,” 1875

Wolf Kahn (1925- )

Written in 1976 for the catalog and reproduced as printed, with spelling corrected. Not current.

Wolf Kahn was born in Stuttgart, Germany and lived in Europe and England until 1940, when he emigrated to New York. There he attended the High School of Music and Art and later studied with Hans Hofmann and at the University of Chicago. Returning to New York in 1952, he began painting full-time, and has since lived and worked in Mexico, Italy, Louisiana, and New England. He has won both Fulbright and Guggenheim grants.

Kahn is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum; the Brooklyn Museum; the Jewish Museum, New York; the Houston Museum of Fine Arts; the City Art Museum of St. Louis; the Fort Worth Art Center Museum; and Michigan State, Illinois, Nebraska, Berkeley, and Brandeis Universities. His other corporate collections are exhibited at the Chase Manhattan Bank, the Union Carbide Corporation, the Tulsa National Bank, and the Lincoln Life Insurance Company.

From The Art Collection of United Gas Pipe Line Company (Houston, 1976), curated by Susan Rush.