Max Kahn (1902–2005) was a Litvak lithographer, painter and sculptor born in Slonim, Belarus in 1902.
[1] Max Kahn went to the United States in 1907 studying art at Bradley University, went to Paris in 1926–1928, where he studied primarily sculpture with Charles Despiau and Antoine Bourdelle and drawing with Othon Friesz at the Academy Suede West on the Rive Droite.
Political prints collected in Mexico by Kahn and Coen were exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2006.
In 1944 when Francis Chapin retired from the Art Institute he recommended Max for the job of teaching lithography, which Kahn did into the 60's.
Kahn's works were shown in group exhibitions:[8] His work is held in the collections of the Illinois State Museum,[9] the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,[10] the National Gallery of Canada[11] and The Art Institute of Chicago.