About the artist:

Gary Kahn is the only brother of American painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and sculptor Scott Kahn. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Bennett Jordan Kahn, and Anne (née Moss) Kahn. Bennett Kahn was the founding publisher of the The Jewish Weekly News which was an English language newspaper for the Jewish community in Western Massachusetts, and Anne Kahn was a homemaker. Bennett Kahn died in 1952 of a heart attack. In 1954 Anne Kahn remarried to Irving Rothchild, the owner of a printing company, Springfield Offset & Printing Co.