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Wolf Kahn (1927-2020) painted the American landscape as a brilliant fusion of color, light, and gesture, embodying both realism and his training with the influential Abstract Expressionist artist and teacher Hans Hofmann. Radical in his approach to color, Kahn asserted, “It’s the idea of the iron fist in the velvet glove, I want maximum strength along with maximum delicacy.” Born in Stuttgart, Germany, he fled Nazi Germany to Britain through the Kindertransport in the late 1930s and immigrated to New York City in 1940, where he graduated from the High School of Music and Art. After serving in …