LOUIS I. KAHN Born 1901, Saaremaa, Estonia Died 1974, New York, NY
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2012-2017 "Louis I. Kahn: The Power of Architecture," Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands, traveling to Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, traveling to The National Museum, Oslo, Norway traveling to London Design Museum, London, United Kingdom, traveling to Taipei Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan, traveling to Bellvue Arts Museum, Bellvue, WA, traveling to San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, traveling to the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, traveling to The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
2012 "Louis I. Kahn: In the Park," Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
2011 “Louis I. Kahn: Building a View,” Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY “Louis Kahn in Venice,” Instituto Italiano di Cultura Los Angeles, organized by University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2008 “Louis I. Kahn: Architect as Artist,” Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY [at the Works on Paper fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York]
2002 “Louis I. Kahn: Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings,” Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1996–99 “Drawn from the Source: The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn,” Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, traveled to: Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1994–95 “Louis I. Kahn: Travel Sketches,” Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1978 “The Travel Sketches of Louis Kahn,” Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 “Becoming Modern: The Travel Drawings of Louis I. Kahn and Charles Demuth,” The Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA
2011 "Summer Paper," Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
2010 “2010 Collectors Show and Sale,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2009 “A Sense of Place,” Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY (with Ralson Crawford, Stuart Davis, Fairfield Porter and Paul Resika) [at the Works on Paper fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York] "Water," The Painting Center, New York, NY
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2008 “2008 Collectors Show and Sale,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2004–05 “2004 Collectors Show and Sale,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1986 “Collector's Choice Exhibition,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania The Art Institute of Chicago Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Williams College Museum of Art University of Pennsylvania Collection M. Louis Goodman Collection Kate Gubelman Collection W. Mark Gunderson Collection Wendy Evans Joseph Collection Eugene Kohn Collection Caren Prothro Collection Thomas Olan Ramsey Collection Michael and Juliet Rubenstein Collection Robert Venturi Collection Richard Saul Wurman
SELECTED PRESS 2011 Bell, Eugenia. “Louis Kahn," Frieze Magazine, Issue 143, November/December Heinz, Alice. "The Artist in the Architect," Metropoliz Magazine, June 21 Valdez, Aldrin. “Louis Kahn: Building a View," The Brooklyn Rail, July/August
2008 Deitz, Paula. "A Mind Full of Roman Greatness," The New York Sun, February 26 Johnson, Ken. "On a Treasure Hunt, Uncovering Modern Wonders," The New York Times, February 29
EDUCATION 1920 – 24 University of Pennsylvania, BA in Architecture, with Paul Philippe Cret
AWARDS 1971 Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects
1973 Academician, American Academy of Arts and Letters
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