Max Kahn (1902-2005). In the middle of the twentieth-century, Max Kahn and Eleanor Coen were not only well known in Chicago , they were celebrated modern American artists, respected, collected and... Read full biography
Max Kahn (1902-2005). In the middle of the twentieth-century, Max Kahn and Eleanor Coen were not only well known in Chicago , they were celebrated modern American artists, respected, collected and exhibited nation-wide. In his 1958 book Printmaking Today , Jules Heller wrote: "No presentation of... Read full biography
Max Kahn (1902-2005). In the middle of the twentieth-century, Max Kahn and Eleanor Coen were not only well known in Chicago , they were celebrated modern American artists, respected, collected and exhibited nation-wide. In his 1958 book Printmaking Today , Jules Heller wrote: "No presentation of contemporary lithographs would be complete without a print by Max Kahn," and he chose one Kahn's and one of Coen's lithographs as two of eight examples of the state of the art. These were not marginally... Read full biography
Max Kahn (1902-2005). In the middle of the twentieth-century, Max Kahn and Eleanor Coen were not only well known in Chicago , they were celebrated modern American artists, respected, collected and exhibited nation-wide. In his 1958 book Printmaking Today , Jules Heller wrote: "No presentation of contemporary lithographs would be complete without a print by Max Kahn," and he chose one Kahn's and one of Coen's lithographs as two of eight examples of the state of the art. These were not marginally successful artists. They were hot tickets, winning prizes left and right and breaking barriers that separated various media in visual arts - notably painting and printmaking and color and black-and-white lithography. In 1946, at the Weyhe Gallery in... Read full biography
Max Kahn (1902-2005). In the middle of the twentieth-century, Max Kahn and Eleanor Coen were not only well known in Chicago , they were celebrated modern American artists, respected, collected and exhibited nation-wide. In his 1958 book Printmaking Today , Jules Heller wrote: "No presentation of contemporary lithographs would be complete without a print by Max Kahn," and he chose one Kahn's and one of Coen's lithographs as two of eight examples of the state of the art. These were not marginally successful artists. They were hot tickets, winning prizes left and right and breaking barriers that separated various media in visual arts - notably painting and printmaking and color and black-and-white lithography. In 1946, at the Weyhe Gallery in New York , Kahn mounted the first proper exhibition of color lithography, thereby championing a medium that had previously been os... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (15)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Second Sight, Printmaking in Chicago, 1935-1955
1999
Editor
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947