BRATTLEBORO — In a public lecture on Saturday, Oct. 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the New England Youth Theatre on Flat Street, renowned landscape painter Wolf Kahn will ask: “Can art be taught?”
Kahn, whose career has spanned more than six decades, is a leading figure in American art. Since 1968, Kahn and his wife, Emily Mason, have spent summers and autumns in southern Vermont, where the hills, barns, woods, and skies have inspired his art.
His “rich and expressive body of work represents a 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,” according to his website (www.wolfkahn.com).
Kahn has received a Fulbright Scholarship, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a member of the National Academy of Design and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum, among many others.
“Wolf is a great speaker - funny and irreverent, yet always substantive and thought-provoking,” said museum director Danny Lichtenfeld.
Kahn will also sign copies of his limited-edition 2009 print, “Deep Purple Landscape,” available exclusively through BMAC.
The event will benefit the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, of which Kahn is an honorary trustee. Tickets are $8 ($6 for seniors, students, and museum members). Seating is limited, and reservations are recommended. Call 802-257-0124, ext. 101, or visit www.brattleboromuseum.org for more information.