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Max Kahn Ride by the Black Moon Lithograph

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
Max Kahn Ride by the Black Moon Lithograph
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Signed Lithograph. 27 3/4" by 22". Max Kahn went to the United States in 1907 studying art at Bradley University, went to Paris in 1926–1928, where he studied primarily sculpture with Charles Despiau and Antoine Bourdelle and drawing with Othon Friesz at the Academy Suede West on the Rive Droite. In 1935 he met Eleanor Coen, a lithographer and painter, whom he later married. They both went to the Chicago Art Institute where he studied and later taught. In 1939 Kahn taught a four-week course at the Herron School of Art.[2] Eleanor Coen was on the WPA Federal Arts project from 1939 to 1940.[3] and both she and Kahn were registered WPA artists.[3] From the 1930s to early 1940 Kahn was the head of Chicago's WPA Art Print Department with Eleanor Coen at the Art Institute of Chicago.[4] One of their WPA murals, painted in 1940, was discovered and restored in the 1990s.[5][6] In 1941 after Eleanor won a fellowship they travelled to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. Max set up the printmaking studio and taught printmaking at the Universitaria de Bellas Artes, which had recently opened. The school is now a national monument. Political prints collected in Mexico by Kahn and Coen were exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2006.[7] In 1942 after war started, Max and Eleanor returned to the USA, where they married. In the summer of 1942 they taught at Oxbow Summer School of painting at Saugatuck where Francis Chapin ran the summer school. In 1944 when Francis Chapin retired from the Art Institute he recommended Max for the job of teaching lithography, which Kahn did into the 60's.
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