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Rocks and People (originally Nativity)

Date1946-1953

Maker Kenneth Callahan American, born 1905, Spokane, Washington; died 1986, Seattle, Washington

Object number2015.14.3

ProvenanceThe artist; consigned to [Kharouba Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 1953, as Nativity]; returned to the artist, to at least April 1973; with [Laura Russo Gallery, Inc., Portland, Oregon, after 1986, as Rocks and People]; sold to Gladys and Sam Rubinstein, July 30, 1996; by bequest to Seattle Art Museum

Exhibition HistoryPortland, Oregon, Kharouba Gallery, Kenneth Callahan: New Paintings, Feb. 2 - 28, 1953. No catalogue [identified as Nativity on gallery label on reverse]. Seattle, Washington, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Kenneth Callahan: Universal Voyage—A Retrospective Exhibition, Mar. 23 - Apr. 22, 1973.* Text by Michael R. Johnson, editor. Supplemental checklist no. 45 (as Rocks and People, private collection [according to label, it was lent by the artist], not in accompanying catalogue. [*exhibition traveled to Portland (Oregon) Art Museum and Everson Museum, Syracuse, but there is no indication that the painting was lent to these venues].

Credit LineGift of Gladys and Sam Rubinstein

Dimensions17 x 21 3/4 in. (43.2 x 55.2 cm)

MediumTempera and oil on wood pulp poster board [painted on the reverse of a French travel poster]