#1106 Mosaic

• Title #1106 Mosaic
• Category Painting
• Medium Tempera on paper
• Medium Abstract, Pacific Northwest (subject or artist)
• Dimensions 11.25"h x 17"w
• Framed Dimensions 16.75"h x 22.5"w
• Year Completed 1976
• Description Kenneth Callahan was a largely self-taught painter and muralist who made important contributions to the development of Pacific Northwest art such as developing the Northwest School art style. Callahan was born in Spokane, Washington, raised in Montana and spent much of his adult life in the Seattle area. Callahan was above all a painter of nature, which he often depicted through swirling lines and dynamic compositions. His early works were representational, gradually becoming abstract because of an encounter with the art of the “Blue Four,” a group of modernist artists including Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, and Alexei Jawlensky. Callahan talks of his dislike of the art he viewed but in them realized his desire to establish an identity that could only come from him. When he was seventy-nine, Callahan came down with pneumonia. Despite illness, Callahan worked up until two weeks before his death only months away from his eighty-first birthday.
• Notes A Seattle Northwest Abstract Expressionist; Curator and Asst. Directory of Seattle Art Museum from 1933-1953.
• Artist Kenneth Callahan American 1905-1986
• Credit Carlson Collection
• Location Dixon 304
• Accession Number 2003.0006
• Status Checked Out
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