Phillip Callahan Gouache and Ink Painting of Horse
Item Details
A gouache and ink painting on paper of a horse, by American artist Phillip Callahan (1918 – 1991). This piece presents a stylized horse in a dynamic pose, rendered in calligraphic black line work with orange accents. The artist’s signature is stamped to the lower left. The work is presented under layered mats and acrylic glass, in a painted black wood frame, wired to hang.
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 abstract. By the 1950s and 1960s his work became completely non-objective.
Condition
- debris under glass; slight tonal variation in wood on left side of frame; pencil marks visible in image.
Dimensions
- measures frame; visible image measures 6.75" W x 4.75" H.
Item #
17IND158-007
