Phillip Callahan Abstract Oil Painting

Item Details

An abstract oil painting by listed American artist Phillip Callahan (1918-1991). This piece depicts a mosaic of scattered blue, yellow and brownish daubs, rendered into somewhat swirling lines. The piece is marked with a stamp of the artist’s signature to its lower right and is presented unframed and without hanging hardware.

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 more abstract. By the 1950s-60s his work had become completely non-objective.

Condition

- fair; cracking paint with paint loss throughout; wear to edges and corners; drip mark in lower portion of painting.

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Item #

18IND057-001