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Premier Auction | May 19, 2023

Fri, May 19, 2023 09:00AM EDT
Lot 847

Kenneth Callahan

Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000

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(California/Washington, 1905-1986)

Untitled, Figural Group, circa 1947, signed lower left "Kenneth Callahan", tempera on panel, 23-3/4 x 25-7/8 in.; pickled wood frame, 29-1/2 x 31-1/2 in. 

Possibly exhibited as No. 15 Forest Scene or entered for exhibition "Figural Group" to the 35th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, sponsored by the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, October 5 - November 6, 1949 (formerly attached original label accompanies lot).

Reference: Seattle Art Museum, “Thirty-fifth Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists,” Seattle Art Museum Libraries: Digital Collections, accessed April 10, 2023, https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/1520.

Accompanied by copy of What it Meant to Be Modern: Seattle Art at the Mid-Century, organized by Sheryl Conkelton, Senior Curator, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 14 October 1999 - 23 January 2000.

Condition

good condition

Estate of Katharine Lee Reid Chapel Hill, North Carolina