Acrylic paintings by William Kohn of the Washington University School of Fine Arts faculty are on exhibition at the Terry Moore Gallery, 612 N. Second St., St. Louis, until February 15. (Bill Kohn, as he is better known in this area, resides in the 6100 block of Kingsbury and maintains a studio at Kingsbury and Des Peres.) Twenty paintings are displayed at the gallery. Four of these, Modhera, Bonhampak, Girnar, and Fatehpur, served as inspiration for electronic music composed and recorded especially for the opening January 20 by Thomas Hamilton, director of the Washington University Electronic Music/Recording Studio.
Kohn, a native of St. Louis and a faculty member at Washington University since 1963, visited India in 1962-63 on a round-the-world knapsack trip and again on a Fulbright Grant in 1966. The influence of India has surfaced in subsequent prints and paintings. “Metallic and bright colored surfaces in intense light and shadow viewed from above create strong three dimensionality,” explains Kohn in reference to the paintings in his current one-man show.
The permanent collection of Stephens College Museum, Springfield Missouri Museum, Northern Illinois University, Kalamazoo Valley College, Morton D. May, and Carleton College include Kohn works.
Hours at the Terry Moore Gallery in Laclede’s Landing at 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 1-5 p.m. on Sundays.
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Modhera, still life acrylic by William Kohn of the Washington University School of Fine Arts faculty, is one of 20 works by Kohn on display at the Terry Moore Gallery until February 15, 1976. The Paper, February 1976, page 3. Photograph not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, February 1976.
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