Philip Callahan Oil on Canvas Abstract

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Philip Callahan
Titled Unknown
Oil on Canvas
Signed

An oil on canvas abstract painting by New York artist Philip Callahan (1918 – 1991). The painting shows a group of curved figures in blue against a white and teal background. It is signed in the lower right and is unframed.

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.

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18COL136-141