WPA Art Collection -- Illinois State Museum

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Street Scene
Max Kahn (1903 - )
watercolor on paper, 1937
15 x 19 inches

Max Kahn's family immigrated to Peoria, Illinois from Russia in 1907. He earned a degree from Bradley University. In the late 1920s, Kahn studied sculpture and print making in Paris, New York, and Chicago. He worked for the Illinois WPA in the easel program. He taught from 1944 at the Art Institute and had 13 one-man shows in the United States and abroad between then and 1959. His prints and watercolors are in the collections of many museums.

The artist painted this picture with both transparent and opaque water colors. The white areas are made with white paint instead of having the white paper show through.

Collection of the Illinois State Museum
photograph by Gary Andrashko
ISM Accession #: 1943.16/550

<i>Street Scene</i><br>Max Kahn (1903 - )

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