Kenneth Callahan

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1905-1986

“I wanted to be an artist and that was that. Whatever that meant, I accepted that completely without thought… It’s just simply the only way I can conceive of living…. It just always had been so. It’s like how tall I am. There’s no point in arguing about it.”

—Oral history interview with Kenneth Callahan, 1982
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution