KENNETH CALLAHAN
(1905-1986)
"For me there are two sources of art: nature and the art of the past.
The past is all-inclusive, from cave painting to the thing produced yesterday
by the artist around the corner. Nature is the most important.... It is nature,
with its unlimited varied form, structure and color that constitutes the vital
living source from which art must basically stem." --Kenneth Callahan
"Kenneth Callahan was before all else a painter of nature. Nature for him as his words above
reveal, was more than "men, mountain streams, animals and alpine meadows." It was the life
force that breathed spirit into each insect and each mountain peak. It was "the interrelationship
of man, rock, and elements; the creating and disintegration, repeated over and over: man into rock,
rock into man, both controlled by sun and elements."
It was an ineffable power, a seeming state of perpetual motion that created and consumed that
swirled and cycled and finally transcended the physical world. Callahan's was, in essence, a romantic
vision of creation and creating."
--excerpt from "Kenneth Callahan" by Patricia G. Watkinson
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