Hare, David / Callahan, Kenneth - 1958 - Centre Culturel Americain Paris (Peinture de l'Ouest, Sculpture de l'Est des États-Unis)

Hare, David
born 1917 in New York, died 1992 in USA - Jackson/Wyoming

Callahan, Kenneth
born 1906 in USA - Spokane / Wash., died 1986 in USA - Seattle / Wash.

poster of the exhibition Peinture de l'Ouest - Sculpture de l'Est des États-Unis
Centre Culturel Americain, Paris
motives by David Hare and Kenneth Callahan

1958 ( march 07- april 05 )
colour offset
63 cm x 47 cm
printer: Les Presses Artistiques Paris
slight creases at the borders, slightly dirty at the lower part, generally in good condition

order no. 23160

Motifs: The background shows Totemic Drift from 1955, a painting by Kenneth Callahan, while a sculpture by David Hare (Man with Drum, year 1948) is featured in the foreground.

The exhibition was staged under the protection of the U.S.I.A. (United States Information Agency), then the exhibition was also shown at the museum of Saint-Étienne. The works were chosen by Seattle Art Museum.
Four painters from the west (Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, Guy Anderson) and four sculptors from New York (Rhys Caparn, David Hare, Seymour Lipton, Ezio Martinelli) were featured in the exhibition.

In the preface to the catalogue Richard E. Fuller, the director of Seattle Art Museum, mentions that the works "speak the international language of art". 

Lit.:

Peinture de l'Ouest Sculpture de l'Est des États-Unis, Ausst.-Kat. Musee de Saint-Étienne 1958, with an introduction by Richard E. Fuller
Ragon, Michel: Artistes américains. In: Cimaise - revue de l'art actuel, cinquième série, no.4, mars-avril 1958, p.42
Ruby, Sigrid: "Have We An American Art?" Präsentation und Rezeption amerikanischer Malerei im Westdeutschland und Westeuropa der Nachkriegszeit, Weimar 1999
See also our catalogue 'From Arp to Pollock': Art and exhibition posters in France and Germany 1945-1960, Köln 2016, p. 32 f.