Oral history interview with Kenneth Callahan
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 7 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 11 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 27 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Callahan, Kenneth, 1905-1986
label: Interviewer
content: Prince, Sue Ann
label: Names
content: Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)
label: Names
content: Seattle Art Museum
label: Names
content: Anderson, Guy, 1906-1998
label: Names
content: Graves, Morris, 1910-2001
label: Names
content: Tobey, Mark
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Northwestern States -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- Northwestern States
label: Topic
content: Art, American -- Northwestern States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Northwest Oral History Project, begun in 1982 to document the Northwest artistic community through interviews with painters, sculptors, craftsmen, educators, curators, and others, in Oregon, Washington and Montana.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Callahan, Kenneth, 1905-1986
label: Interviewer
content: Prince, Sue Ann
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Kenneth Callahan (1905-1986) was a painter, muralist, writer, and curator from Long Beach, Washington.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 75 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982 October 27-December 19
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.callah82
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Transcript also available at the University of Washington, Manuscripts Collection, and at the Oregon Historical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Kenneth Callahan conducted 1982 October 27-1982 December 19, by Sue Ann Kendall, for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Callahan speaks of his childhood in Montana; his education; working as an illustrator; early shows of his work; mural commissions; the Northwest arts community, particularly Morris Graves, Guy Anderson and Mark Tobey; changes in his subject matter and interests; the increasing abstraction in his painting; the fire in his studio; his relationship with the Seattle Art Museum, where he worked as a curator for 20 years; collectors he has known; experimenting with other media; and contemporary art and its future.