Phillip Callahan Mixed Media Painting of Figures
Item Details
A mixed media painting of figures by listed East Coast artist Phillip Callahan (1918-1991). This loosely-rendered drawing depicts a pair of nude women in athletic poses, rendered with black lines and washes of red and white paint. There is a stamped signature to the lower right corner of the piece, and it is matted under glass in a distressed white frame with a wire to its verso for hanging.
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 École 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
- glue residue to frame, particularly at corner joints; rough wood to inner edge of frame.
Dimensions
- measures frame; visible image measures: 10.25" W x 7.5" H.
Item #
17IND158-006