Phillip Callahan Ink and Watercolor Drawing on Paper of Abstract Form

Item Details

Ink on paper

An ink and watercolor drawing on paper of an abstract form by listed artist Phillip Callahan (1918-1991). This drawing depicts a geometric, figural form with protruding ligaments and notable arms slightly compressed into itself. It is defined by topographic lines that are weighted and reinforced to the edges with a purple border. This work is posthumously stamped with the artist signature to the lower right. The drawing is presented under layered matting.

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

- minor scuffs to the edges.

Dimensions

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

Item #

18IND013-048