Untitled ("Evolution with Fish")

• Title Untitled ("Evolution with Fish")
• Category Painting
• Medium Tempera on paperboard
• Dimensions 22.5"h x 28.5"w
• Framed Dimensions 28.5"h x 34.5"w
• Year Completed 1970
• 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 Harrison Collection
• Location Lied Art Center First Floor Hallway
• Accession Number 2009.0013
• Status Checked Out
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