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EXHIBIT | Wolf Kahn

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PREMIER LANDSCAPE ARTIST WOLF KAHN TO EXHIBIT RECENT WORKS AT THE MORRISON GALLERY IN KENT, CONNECTICUT. NOV. 3 - DEC. 9, 2007


KENT, CONNECTICUT - (October 18, 2007) - Noted colorist Wolf Kahn, widely considered the premier landscape painter in America, will exhibit his recent works in an exclusive show at the Morrison Gallery beginning November 3rd. Mr. Kahn, now in his 80th year, will also give a lecture on painting at the gallery prior to a reception in his honor to open the exhibit. To reserve a spot at the pre-opening lecture, which carries a fee of $25 that will be donated to the Washington Art Association, please call 860.868.2878.

Kahn's brilliant, chromatic renderings of barns, fields and trees will exhibit dramatically in the Morrison Gallery, a 7,000 square foot space, one of the largest private galleries in Connecticut. The artist'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, DC and the Los Angeles County Museum.

"We are extremely fortunate, and honored to have this solo show for Wolf Kahn," said gallery owner, Billy Morrison. "Choosing the paintings for this show reminded me why I love art. Each painting 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 just seem to come to life and jump off each canvas, etched in the minds eye."

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. Wolf 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 U.S. Navy, he studied with the renowned teacher and abstract expressionist Hans Hoffmann, 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, Vermont.

Mr. Kahn travels extensively and has painted landscapes in Maine, Mexico, Italy, Greece, Kenya, New Mexico, Hawaii, Egypt and elsewhere. These works are distinguished by a unique blend of Realism and the formal discipline of Color Field painting. Mr. Kahn's work is said to embody the synthesis of his modern abstract training with Hans Hofmann, the palette of Matisse, Rothko's sweeping bands of color, and the atmospheric qualities of American Impressionism. This fusion of color, spontaneity and representation that has produced such a rich and expressive body of work that have been exhibited at galleries and museums across North America.

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