March 7 - April 25, 2015

Jerald Melberg Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new paintings and pastels by internationally acclaimed artist, Wolf Kahn. Wolf Kahn is widely considered the preeminent landscape painter in America. Color is his signature. Continually striving for a deeper insight into the possibilities of color, Wolf Kahn makes landscape paintings with unmatched luminosity.

Wolf Kahn was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927. He arrived in the United States in 1940 and in 1945 graduated from the High School of Music and Art in New York. He then spent time in the Navy and after his discharge attended classes taught by Stuart Davis and Hans Jelinek at the New School for Social Research. Kahn studied further with Hans Hofmann at his School of Fine Art in New York and worked as his studio assistant in Provincetown. In 1950 he enrolled in the University of Chicago from which he was graduated in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. After traveling for a time, he returned to New York to resume painting.

Wolf Kahn has been honored with numerous awards, including both Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Design, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and has served on the New York Arts Commission. Kahn’s work has been represented in countless solo exhibitions and can be found in the permanent collections of over 100 museums, including such prestigious institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Jerald Melberg Gallery is located at 625 South Sharon Amity Road near the intersection with Providence Road. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday from 10am to 6pm. For more information about the exhibition please contact the gallery at 704.365.3000. To view selected works online, visit the gallery’s web site at www.jeraldmelberg.com.