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Photo: Scott Leen
Mail Boxes
Photo: Scott Leen

Mail Boxes

Date1935
Label TextCallahan believed that art should reflect the totality of the human experience in nature. He designed his works to embody, as he put it, “a holistic vision of cosmic unity” and a deep connection to the cycles of life. His philosophy applies as much to his well-known abstractions as it does to his earlier, more realistic scenes of the Pacific Northwest, such as this view of a humble cluster of mailboxes, energized by the atmospheric swirl of the muted light and landscape that surround them.
Object number35.91
Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen
Exhibition HistoryColorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Artists West of The Mississippi, 1940. LaConner, Washington, Valley Museum of Northwest Art, Kenneth Callahan: Early Paintings and Early Works By Guy Anderson, Morris Graves and Mark Tobey, June 17 - Sept.4, 1994. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, From New York to Seattle: Case Studies in American Abstraction and Realism, Jan. 15, 2020 - June 5, 2022.
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions32 3/4 x 26 3/4 in. (83.2 x 68 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Japanese
19th century
Object number: 35.625.1
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Japanese
19th century
Object number: 35.625.2
Burial of the New Law II
Morris Graves
ca. 1936
Object number: 73.4
Portrait of Mrs. Stanley Griffiths
Mark Tobey
1925
Object number: SC87.25
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Mark Tobey
1963
Object number: 74.41
Photo: Paul Macapia
Cleveland Rockwell
1882
Object number: 89.70
Photo: Scott Leen
Georgia O'Keeffe
1924
Object number: 94.89
Summer near Waterville
George Tsutakawa
1954
Object number: 59.78