Philip Callahan Drawing of Seated Man
Item Details
Untitled
Ink on paper
Signed to Lower Left
A colorful expressionist drawing of a man by New York artist Philip Cunningham (1918 – 1991). The drawing shows the male figure seated in a chair beside a table and is signed in the lower left corner. It is matted in teal with a black highlight 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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Item #
18COL136-154