Summary Information

Title: Max Kahn Papers
Creator: Kahn, Max, 1907-1954.
Call number: WTU00064
Language: Languages: English
Repository: Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO 63130

Access and Use:

Source:

Gift of Max Kahn.

Access Restrictions:

Open.

Use Restriction:

None

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All publication not covered by fair use restricted to those who have permission of the copyright holder.

Processing Information:

Processed by Washington University Department Special Collections Staff.

Biography

During the 1930s to early 1940, Max Kahn was head of Chicago's WPA Art Print Department with Eleanor Cohn at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Collection Scope and Content Note

Scope and Contents Note

Consists of collages and photographs by Kahn, one record, and a print from the Heffer book dealers.

Contents List

		Title
		I. Collages
		Elegy for Greece (II)
		Elegy for Greece (III)
		A Francis Poulence
		Genius Casts a Shadow
		The Heat of Summer
		London (I)
		On a Point in Time
		A Time for Angels
		A Time in Italy (No. 2)
		Venetian Blues
		Untitled rodeo collage    Scope: Located in oversize.
		II. Photographs
		Tom Bry and Bill Bry    Scope: Removed from original matting. Matting located in oversize.
		III. Printed Material
		A Keepsake From Heffers In Their Centenary Year
		IV. Audiovisual
		Financiera Aceptaciones, S.A., A Veracruz Puerto Y Estado En El X Aniversario De Servirle 23 De Mayo 1971 record. Gift to Saul Rosenweig.