Artist List    Kenneth Callahan    Images  |  Bio Born 1905, Spokane, WA Died 1986, Seattle, WA EDUCATION AND RELATED EXPERIENCE Attended University of Washington; studied on his own in Mexico, London, Paris, and Florence Curator of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1933-1953 Visiting Artist and Visiting Professor of Art: University of Southern California, Washington State University, Pennsylvania State University, Syracuse University, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Boston University 1954-1966 AWARDS Nominated for Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters 1980 National Academy of Design, Member 1977 Seattle Art Museum, Member of Board of Trustees 1974-1976 National Academy of Design, Associate Member 1975 Washington State Arts Commission, Member 1970-1974 Kenneth Callahan: Universal Voyage, University of Washington Press, Ed. Michael Johnson 1973 Honored by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for “Contribution to the Arts” 1972 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award 1971 Washington State Governor's Award of Commendation 1968 Guggenheim Fellowship 1954-1955 ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1990, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007 Gordon Woodside / John Braseth Gallery 2005, 2007 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA 1975, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 2000, 2003 “Northwest Visionaries,” Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA 2002 Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA 2001 “The Honeymoon Series,” BAU-XI, Vancouver, B.C. 1996 “Kenneth Callahan: Early Paintings,” Valley Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, WA 1994 ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS, (continued) The Kinsey Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle, WA 1993 Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY 1966, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1990 “A Tribute to Kenneth Callahan on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday,” Tacoma Art Museum, WA 1985 Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland, OR 1966, 1970, 1980, 1983 “Northwest Contemporary Art,” The Squib Gallery, Princeton, NJ 1982 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA 1981 Governor's Exhibition, Washington State Museum, Olympia, WA 1981 National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C. 1981 “Kenneth Callahan Retrospective: Painting,” Seattle Art Museum, WA 1979-1980 “Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson,” Olin Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 1978 “Callahan Room,” Longacres Race Track, Renton, WA 1976 “Retrospective Exhibition,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, Childe Hassam Purchase, New York, NY 1975 “Retrospective Exhibition,” The Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1973 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA 1966 Maynard Walker Gallery, New York, NY 1947, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965 Gallerie George Giroux, Brussels, Belgium 1948 GROUP EXHIBITIONS “The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989,” Guggenheim, New York, NY 2009 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR 2008 The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2007, 2008 “The Drawn Line,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 2007 “20th Anniversary Group Show,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2006 “Early Northwest Artists,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2006 Gordon Woodside/John Braseth Gallery, Seattle, WA 2004 "Northwest Mythologies: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 2003 “Northwest Masters,” City Space, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA 2002 “Works from the Estates,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2002 “Works on Paper,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 “15th Anniversary Group Show,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2001 “Northwest Masters,” Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID 2000 “Summer Salon, Paintings by the Northwest Masters,” Kurt Lidtke Gallery, Seattle, WA 1999 “What it Meant to be Modern, Seattle Art at Mid-Century,” Henry Gallery, Seattle, WA 1999 “Works on Paper,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1999 “Paintings and Works on Paper,” Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA 1996 Meyerson and Nowinski Art Associates, Seattle, WA 1996 “Contemporary Northwest Art From The Laura Russo Gallery,” Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR 1995 “Jet Dreams: Art of the Fifties in the Pacific Northwest,” Tacoma Art Museum, WA and Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR 1995 Lidtke Fine Art, Seattle, WA 1994 “Views and Visions in the Pacific Northwest,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1990 “Washington State Artists ‘81,” Kobe, Japan 1981 West Coast Artists,” Vice President’s House, Washington D.C. 1980-1981 “Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Canadian Artists for Arts Awards,” American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 1980 “Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN 1977 GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued) “Art of the Pacific Northwest from 1930 to Present,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts; Seattle Art Museum; Portland Art Museum 1974 “A University Collects: Oregon Pacific Northwest Heritage,” American Federation of the Arts, Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 1967-1968 “Art Since 1950,” Seattle World’s Fair, Seattle, WA 1966 “The Artist’s Environment: West Coast,” Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX 1961 “Painting from the Pacific Rim,” Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand 1957 “American Painting Today,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1950 During an 18 year span, Kenneth Callahan exhibited in group exhibitions in the following countries: France, England, Italy, Spain, Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Formosa, Argentina, Japan, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Portugal 1948-1966 “First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1933 Schwabacker-Frey Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1926 COMMISSIONS Set and Costume Design, “Macbeth,” Seattle Repertory Theatre 1972 Washington Mutual Savings Bank, Mural 1970 Seattle Civic Theatre, Mural 1966 Syracuse University, Mural 1964 Seattle Center Playhouse, Mural 1961 Washington State Library, Olympia, WA, Mural 1960 Weyerhauser Timber Company, Mill B, Everett, WA 1939 United States Post Office, Murals: Centralia, WA; Anacortes, WA; Rugby, ND 1935-1937 U.S. Marine Hospital (now installed in the King County Administration Building), Seattle, WA, Mural 1935 COLLECTIONS Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA Albrect Gallery Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO Art Institute of Chicago, IL Beloit College Museum Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY Chase Manhattan Bank Collection Colby College Museum Colorado Springs, CO Columbus Gallery of Art, OH Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Davis Wright Tremaine, Portland, OR Denver Museum, CO Des Moines Art Center, IA Detroit Museum of Art, MI Fort Worth Art Center, TX Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. Jensen Investment Management, Portland, OR Johnson Wax Corporation Kalamazoo Art Museum, MI COLLECTIONS (continued) Kansas City Bank and Trust Co. La Jolla Museum, CA Louisville Museum, KY McCormack Communications, Portland, OR Memphis Museum, TN Mentor Graphics, Wilsonville, OR Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY Murdock Collection, Wichita Art Museum, KS Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Norfolk Museum Pacific National Bank Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington D.C. Phoenix Museum, AZ Portland Art Museum, OR Rochester Art Museum, NY San Francisco Museum of Art, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA Seattle Art Museum, WA Seattle First National Bank, WA Sloan Gallery Spokane Art Center, WA Springfield Art Museum, MD St. Louis Museum of Art, MO Syracuse University Collection, NY Tacoma Art Museum, WA The National Collection, Bureau of Reclamation, Washington DC University of Oregon, Eugene, OR University of Washington, Seattle, WA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Washington Mutual Savings Bank Washington State University Museum, WA Wichita Art Museum, KS Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Woodward Foundation PUBLICATIONS Kangas, Matthew, “Kenneth Callahan,” Relocations: Selected Art Essays and Interviews, New York, New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 2008, pp. 359-365, 367 and pp. 57, 81, 98, 169-171, 251 Row, D.K. “Shows of Note,” The Oregonian, April 25, 2008, A&E, p. 35 Speer, Richard, “WW Pick,” Willamette Week, October 3, 2007, p. 63 Kangas, Matthews, “Kenneth Callahan at Woodside/Braseth,” Art in America, February 2007, pp. 156-157 The Laura Russo Gallery: Twenty Years, exhibition catalogue with color plates, 2006, pp. 56, 70 Row, D.K. “Debts, daughter’s decision hold artist’s legacy in balance,” The Sunday Oregonian, June 18, 2006, p. O6 Laskin, David, “The Mystic Artists: A Puget Sound Quest,” The New York Times, March 12, 2006, pp. TR9, 12 PUBLICATIONS (continued) Row, D.K. "Two Unknown, Famous Artists," The Oregonian, January 28, 2005, A&E p. 23; review Row, D.K. "Cirtic's Picks: Laura Russo Gallery," The Oregonian, January 6, 2005, p. E1 Row, D.K. "Shows of Note: Laura Russo Gallery," The Oregonian, December 31, 2004, A&E p. 22 Speer, Richard, “City Focus: Portland, Pacific Edge,” ArtNews, Volume 103, Number 9, October 2004. pp. 120-126 Allan, Lois, “‘Northwest Mythologies’ at the Tacoma Art Museum,” Artweek, July/August 2003, p. 23 Tacoma Art Museum, Northwest Mythologies: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson, Tacoma, WA, 2003 (exhibition catalogue) Row, D.K., “Tacoma's Winning Combination,” The Oregonian, May 4, 2003, pp. F1, F10 Hackett, Regina, “Taking Stock of the Contributions of a Fallen Northwest School Icon,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 24, 2003 Row, D.K., “Gift Boosts Museum Collection,” The Oregonian, February 17, 2002, p. D10 Tarzan Ament, Deloris, “The Elusive Northwest School,” Open Spaces, 2001-2002, pp. 12-20 Gragg, Randy, “Reviving Regionalism: Art in a Small Corner,” The Oregonian, November 25, 2001, p. E1, E4 Harmon, Kitty, The Pacific Northwest Landscape, A Painted History, Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA, 2001 Rabin, Jonathan, “Battleground of the Eye,” The Atlantic Monthly, March, 2001, pp. 40, 48 Kangas, Matthew, “Kenneth Callahan at Kurt Lidtke,” Art in America, June, 2001, p. 149 Johnson, Barry, “Northwest Light,” The Oregonian, April 8, 2001 Orton, Thomas and Patricia Grieve Watkinson, Kenneth Callahan, Museum of Northwest Art with University of Washington Press, 2000 Row, D.K., “Looking to the Past,” The Oregonian, November 24, 2000, p. 62 Gragg, Randy, “A Northwest Rising: A Start for Art,” The Oregonian, August 27, 2000 “Pick Hit,” The Oregonian, October 29, 2000, p. E7 Johns, Barbara, Jet Dreams, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, exhibition catalogue, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 1995 Gragg, Randy, “’Jet Dreams:’ A Look at Heady ‘50s,” The Oregonian, August 25, 1995, pp. 14, 15 Gragg, Randy, “Northwest Painters Make Strong Showing,” The Oregonian, May 20, 1994, p. 25 Gragg, Randy, “Art That Works With You,” The Oregonian, June 28, 1991, pp. 1, 8 Gragg, Randy, “Those Were the Days,” The Oregonian, December 16, 1991, p. D6 Gragg, Randy, “Heroic Idealist and a Virtuoso,” The Oregonian, December 28, 1990, p. F31 Hackett, Regina, “’Decade of Abstraction’ Puts the Last 10 Years of Art In Bright Perspective,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer. August 31, 1989, pp. C1, C14 Johnson, Barry, “Fine Lines,” The Oregonian, February 12, 1989, pp. C1, C6 Hackett, Regina, “Abby’s Art,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer Guenther, Bruce, The Fountain Gallery of Art 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Portland, OR, 1986 “Painter Kenneth Callahan Dies at 81,” The Oregonian, May 11, 1986 Kowalek, Jon W., “Kenneth Callahan: A Tribute to Kenneth Callahan on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday,” October, 1985 Guenther, Bruce, 50 Northwest Artists, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1983 Glowen, Ron “An Overview of Kenneth Callahan,” Artweek, February 16, 1980 Kingsbury, Martha, Northwest Traditions, Seattle Art Museum catalog, June 29-December 10, 1978, pp. 40-47 Gustafson, Egill Oscar, “Kenneth Callahan,” Northwest Art News and Views, February, 1970, pp. 36-39 Baldinger, Wallace and Carol Ann Ivey Stewart, Eds., A University Collects: Oregon Pacific Northwest Heritage, University or Oregon Museum of Art, 1966, pp. 10-11 Fagan, Beth, “Callahan, Kerns and Lithography Show,” The Oregonian, August, 1962 “Mystic Painters of the Northwest,” Life Magazine, September 28, 1953