Corbett vs. Dempsey

Max Kahn

Max Kahn was head of Chicago’s WPA Art Print Department with Eleanor Coen at the Art Institute of Chicago from the 1930’s to early 1940. An enormously influential printmaker and a sensitive watercolorist, Kahn’s WPA prints and paintings are found in 18 major art museums in the US including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Newark Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.