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Photo: Scott Leen
Mail Boxes
Photo: Scott Leen

Mail Boxes

Date1935
Maker Kenneth Callahan American, born 1905, Spokane, Washington; died 1986, Seattle, Washington
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
Tensions
Kenneth Callahan
1961
Object number: 82.185
Riders on the Mountain
Kenneth Callahan
1956
Object number: 56.284
Photo: Scott Leen
Kenneth Callahan
ca. 1940
Object number: 97.23
Exuberant Winds
Kenneth Callahan
1976
Object number: 77.14
Logging Rail Road Construction
Kenneth Callahan
1937
Object number: 37.47
Night of Soliloquy
Kenneth Callahan
1956
Object number: 57.74
Photo: Susan Cole
Kenneth Callahan
1961 or 1962
Object number: 62.203
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Kenneth Callahan
1943
Object number: 46.65
Photo: Scott Leen
Kenneth Callahan
1939
Object number: 42.41
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Kenneth Callahan
ca. 1965-70
Object number: 99.16
The Storm
Kenneth Callahan
1938
Object number: 38.28
Photo: Paul Macapia
Kenneth Callahan
1968
Object number: 83.56