Phillip Callahan Ink and Graphite Figural Drawing
Item Details
ink and graphite
An ink and graphite figural drawing on paper by Phillip Callahan (1918 – 1991). This abstract work depicts two human figures, a male nude and a female figure in an elaborately patterned dress facing away from one another. The piece is stamped with the artist’s signature to the lower right. It is presented behind a black mat behind glass in a pickled white stained wooden frame with a wire to the 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 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
- chipping and glue residue at corners of frame and lower edge.
Dimensions
- measures frame; visible image measures 12.5" W x 8.5" H.
Item #
17IND158-033
