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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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Facts about Kenneth Callahan

   Publications  Book References:  72
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Kenneth Callahan
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Review of Exhibitions February 2007 Editors Yes
Art & Antiques Seattle Modern September 2004 Albert, Fred Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions April 2001 Editor, Art In America Yes
American Art Review The Lure of Pacific Northwest Art February 1999 Hull, Roger Yes
72 Book References for Kenneth Callahan
Year Author Title Pages Color
2007 Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts & Crafts to Modern Architecture 384 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Conkelton, Sherry, Laura Landau, Janeanne A. Upp Northwest Mythologies: The interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson 176 Yes
2002 Ament, Deloris Tarzan Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art 388 Yes
2001 Harmon, Kitty; Jonathan Raban The Pacific Northwest Landscape: A Painted History 144 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1992 Hough, Katherine Transforming the Western Image in 20th Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1988 Clarke, David J The Influence of Oriental Thought on Postwar American Painting and Sculpture 410 No
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Cumming, William Sketchbook, A Memoir of the 30's and the Northwest School 239 No
1984 Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators) American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum 88 Yes
1983 Guenther, Bruce Fifty Northwest Artists (photos of artists by Marsha Burns) 118 Yes
1982 Terra Museum of American Art Solitude Inner Visions in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 41 Yes
1981 Betts, Edward Creative Seascape Painting 151 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Cowles, Charles (others) Northwest Traditions
(Exhibition catalog)		 105 Yes
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1976 Institute of Contemporary Art A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976 194 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 E B Crocker Art Gallery American Drawings & Watercolors From the Munson Williams Proctor Institote
(Exhibition catalog)		 28 Yes
1974 Frankenstein, Alfred Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water An Exhibition of American & Canadian Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 63 Yes
1974 National Collection/Fine Arts Art of the Pacific Northwest From the 1930s to the Present
(Exhibition catalog)		 141 No
1974 Plagens, Peter Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast 200 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Johnson, Michael R Kenneth Callahan, Universal Voyag
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1972 Tomko, George Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum 237 Yes
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1968 University of Oklahoma East Coast-West Coast Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1966 Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck History of Water Color in America 160 Yes
1966 McNight, Robert J Sixty Paintings Brooks Memorial Art Gallery 70 No
1966 Metropolitan Museum of Art 200 Years of Watercolor Painting Centennial of American Watercolor Society
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1966 Smithsonian Institution American Landscape A Changing Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 52 No
1965 Drawing Society Drawing Society National Exhibiti 1965
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 No
1965 Geldzahler, Henry American Painting in the Twentieth Century 236 No
1965 Harithas, James Phoenix Art Museum Collection Paintings Drawings and Sculpture 225 Yes
1965 Museum of Northern Arizona The American Collection Representative Paintings/Phoenix Art Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1965 Selz, Peter Art Across America
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1963 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Art Collections/Univ of Nebraska A Selection of Works/Inauguration of Sheldon Memorial
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1962 Hunter, Sam American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1962 Rogers, Millard Northwest Art Today Adventures in Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 106 No
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1961 Walker, Maynard Kenneth Callahan Exhibition of Paintigs and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 No
1958 Cheney, Sheldon The Story of Modern Art 723 Yes
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1951 Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1939 Cheney, Martha Candler Modern Art in America 190 No
1936 Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay) First National Exhibition of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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