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Kenneth Callahan

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Kenneth L. Callahan (1905 - 1986) was active/lived in California, Washington.  Kenneth Callahan is known for Abstraction, modernist-leaning landscape, sculpture.

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 Born in Spokane, Washington, in 1905, Kenneth Callahan was a self-taught painter and sculptor known for his abstractions based on natural forms of the Northwest region.  His designs were often based on cross-sections of local stones and other formations.  Some of his work from his "Voyages" series, showing automatist techniques, can be found at the Hallie Ford Museum in Salem, Oregon.

In 1927, he went to sea, and from 1929 was based in Seattle.  From 1930, he began making trips to Mexico, Central America, and then traveled to Europe in the 1950s.  From 1932 to 1946, he was a curator at the Seattle Art Museum and also was a visiting artist to numerous universities.

He taught privately and as a visiting artist at several institutes in the United States.  Among his commissions are murals in the Marine Hospital in Seattle, post offices in Centralia and Anacortes, Washington, and the Washington State Library in Olympia.  Callahan was a recipient o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4752 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Kenneth Callahan


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
  • Sketch, Sketching
Art MediaArt Style
  • Abstraction, Abstract
  • Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
  • Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
  • Seascapes, Seasides
  • Self-Portrait
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • California Before 1940
  • Mexico and/or Central America
  • Pacific Northwest Before 1900
Art Association
  • Group of Twelve, Seattle
  • Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Bakkom Photo Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota (2)
Added Description
  • Abstraction Specialty
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Mural Specialty
  • Self Taught, Autodidact
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939, 1940
Art Movement
  • Northwest School (Seattle Area)
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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