Jehane Robin Kuhn, née Jehane Barton, was born on September 25, 1938 in Wednesbury, England. Raised outside of Manchester by her father Hiram K. Barton, a consulting engineer, and her mother, the former Lucy C. Lake, Jehane went on to earn a Bachelor’s degree from Cambridge University. After graduation, she married Howard Burns, who became an eminent scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture. They later divorced. An artist and intellectual, her own deep love and appreciation for Italian language, art, and history stayed with her throughout her life.

Jehane spent more than a decade working at the Office of Charles and Ray Eames in Venice, California, where she made substantive contributions to a wide array of projects as a writer, designer and photographer. In 1982, she married Thomas S. Kuhn, the noted historian of science, and relocated to Boston, where she continued her research as an independent scholar, focusing on the development of pictorial perspective in the Renaissance. Following Kuhn’s death in 1996, she remained in the Boston area, with frequent trips to Italy and England where she continued her research and maintained close friendships. In addition to her own writing, she was a generous and dedicated editor of the work of others.

She is survived by her three step-children Sarah, Liza, and Nat Kuhn; eight grandchildren, and one great-grandchild; and by Howard Burns.

All Services are Private at this time.