Phillip Callahan Ink and Crayon Drawing of an Abstract Figure
Item Details
ink and crayon
An ink and crayon drawing of an abstracted figure by listed East Coast artist Phillip Callahan (1918-1991). This work uses hatching black lines and transparent yellow crayon lines to depict a woman-like shape, one hand cocked to where the figure’s hips would be. There is a stamped signature to the lower right corner, and the drawing is matted under glass in a finished wooden frame, a sawtooth hanger to its verso.
Phillip Callahan was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1918. By the age of eighteen his work had been exhibited in several galleries throughout New York. Callahan received his formal artistic training at the Worcester Institute of Fine Art in 1937 as well as the Advanced School of the Boston Museum of Fine Art. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris before World War II broke out. Callahan enlisted in the United States Army in February of 1941. After the war he returned to the United States and began studying at the Art Students League of New York. It was during this time that Callahan studied under Czech-American modernist painter, Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984). Callahan’s earlier works, remained ultimately realistic with slight abstraction. However, after studying in New York and Europe his work started to become abstraction. By the 1950s and 1960s his work became completely non-objective.
Condition
- wear to finish of frame.
Dimensions
- measures frame; sight edge measures: 4.75" W x 7.5" H.
Item #
17IND158-002
