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A stand of trees backed by vivid orange. Paintings that capture the bright yellow and green—or magenta—of the landscape. The synthesis of realism and the formal discipline of color field painting is embodied in the brilliant paintings of Wolf Kahn (American, b. Germany 1927). Given that he works in nearly violent colors, his paintings are wonderfully tranquil; exercises in chromatic tension and formal movement, they are also sharply evocative of real-world hillsides and weathered buildings. Kahn has received Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, and his works are in many collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.