Phillip Callahan Non-objective Oil Painting on Unstretched Canvas

Item Details

A non-objective oil painting on unstretched canvas listed East Coast artist Phillip Callahan (1918-1991). This painting is rendered with patches of red, yellow, and blue, scattered about in an inviting assortment of painterly marks. This work has a stamped signature to its lower right corner, and is presented without a frame or hardware for display.

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

- fair; abrasions to canvas with minor paint loss; fraying to edges of canvas; nail holes from previous stretching; staining to corners and margins.

Dimensions

- measures free edge of canvas; painted image measures 33.5" W x 23.5" H.

Item #

17IND158-039