Phillip Callahan Ink Drawing on Paper of Abstract Figure

Item Details

Ink Wash

An ink drawing on paper of a standing figure by American artist Phillip Callahan (1918 – 1991). This piece depicts an abstracted figure rendered in organic shapes with red and black line work. The artist’s signature is stamped to the lower right, and the work is presented under layered mats and glass in a 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

- chipping and glue residue to corners of frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 4.75" W x 7.75" H.

Item #

17IND158-008