My Shack on the Dunes

Art

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Provincetown Art Association and Museum

Dune shack in sea grass and ocean in the distance

Dune shack in sea grass and ocean in the distance

Name/Title

My Shack on the Dunes

Entry/Object ID

566.Pa80

Description

Kahn arrived in Provincetown at only nineteen years old to begin his training with Hans Hofmann and his studies in Abstract Expressionism. He painted this shack very early in his prolonged artistic career, only a year after coming to the Cape. The frenetic brushstrokes and impasto painting are undoubtedly characteristic of his studies in the Hofmann school. His style greatly transitioned in the late 50s, moving towards more monochromatic painting and landscape work. He stated that landscapes particularly interested him because of the expansiveness of the surface and the lack of edges and confinements.

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Acquisition

Accession

566

Source or Donor

Wolf Kahn

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of the artist, 1986

Made/Created

Artist

Wolf Kahn

Date made

1947

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Sight

Height

17 in

Width

21 in

Dimension Description

Finished

Height

18-3/4 in

Width

22-1/4 in

Exhibitions

Solitude by the Sea: Selections from the Collection
A Community of Artists The Collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Crosscurrents: An Exchange Between Guild Hall Museum and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 1986
Gems from the Permanent Collection (2020)
Hawthorne, Hofmann, and Hopper Preserving a Legacy
Hofmann Students from the Collection
Provincetown People and Places from the Permanent Collection
Recent Gifts to the Collection: Part IV (2015)
The Art Colony's First Century Part Two: 1933-1966
The Artist's Eye: Polly Burnell Selects from the Collection
Provincetown Connections: From the Collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (The National Arts Club, NY)
The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony 1899-2011 (New Britain Museum of Art)
The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony, 1899-2011 (Cape Cod Museum of Art)
Unknown exhibition, 1984 (PAAM)