The American painter Wolf Kahn (b. 1927) is renowned for luminous interpretations of New England's landscape--pastels and oils that bring the lessons of color field painting and gestural abstraction to the process of representing nature. From November 12 through December 18, Manhattan's Jill Newhouse Gallery is showing a different side of Kahn--a previously unexhibited group of figure drawings he made between 1949 and 1963. Although he studied with the great abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann, Kahn says he "never became an abstract painter, because I love to draw. I love to represent."

Information: Jill Newhouse Gallery, 4 East 81st Street, New York, NY 10028, 212.249.9216, jillnewhouse.com

Image:
Wolf Kahn (b. 1927)
Emily Gazing Downward
1962, Pencil on paper, 7 and one-half x 5 and one-half in.
Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York City