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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
First Seed into Last Harvest
Photo: Elizabeth Mann

First Seed into Last Harvest

Date1943
Label TextWe reap what we have sown: allegories such as this one reveal Callahan’s deep knowledge of sacred texts and the history of art. Whereas Tobey and Graves found their wartime symbols in their close observation of the world around them, Callahan looked to the mountain landscape of the Northwest to find means to amplify the lessons of history and biblical scripture that resided in his inquiring mind.
Object number46.65
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Exhibition History{British Art Center exhibition, New York] {Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery} Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical, June 19 - Sept. 7, 2014. Text by Patricia Junker. No cat. no., p. 30, reproduced p. 31, pl. 15.
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions14 1/2 x 18 1/4 in.
MediumTempera on canvas
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