Cascade Mountain
1944 · Ink on paper
14 1/4 x 17 3/4" (36.4 x 45.3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Kenneth Callahan
1905
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100 Drawings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
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Painting and Sculpture from 16 American Cities
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1933–1934
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Kenneth Callahan was an American painter and printmaker whose abstractions emerged from close observation of Pacific Northwest landscapes and indigenous forms. Active from the 1930s through the 1980s, he developed a distinctive vocabulary of biomorphic shapes and muted earth tones that mediated between representation and pure abstraction. His work appeared regularly in major American museums and shaped the aesthetic of West Coast modernism during the postwar period.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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