O’Callahan Exhibits
The Hartford Courant, Oct 26, 1924
By 1921 O’Callahan was exhibiting annually at the Salon d’Automne, the Salon des Tuileries, and the Salon des Independents. In 1923, one of Clinton’s major modernist paintings, “At The Bath”, was accepted for the Carnegie International Exposition in Pittsburgh and cited by artist and critic Augustus John as “the most significant picture in the exhibition.”
In 1924, Clinton had one-man exhibitions at the Hartford Athenaeum Annex and at the Babcock Galleries in New York. Both shows were extensively reviewed in the New York Times, the Hartford Courant, New York Evening Post, Art News, and the Paris edition of the New York Herald.
From 1926 through the early 1930s, Clinton was an active exhibiting and founding member of the “Groupe des Peintres et Sculpteurs Américains de Paris.” The artists exhibited annually at Galerie Durand-Ruel and the Galerie Knoedler and in 1927 at the Brooklyn Museum followed by a national tour. In 1930 he exhibited at the Hartford Atheneum in a show put on by the then director, Arthur Everett “Chick” Austin Jr.
Below is a list we have compiled of the exhibits Clinton O’Callahan’s art was included in:
1918 - Hartford Atheneum Annex, CT (while at war) exhibited with CT Academy of Fine Arts - landscape along banks of CT River
1920 - Wiley’s Art Emporium, Hartford CT - solo exhibition (July 9th, 1920 - Hartford Courant - summer in Provincetown MA) Scenes of French farmers and French village streets
1921-1933 - Salon d’Automne at the Grande Palais, Paris - annually for over a decade (in 1922 articles detailed, ‘The Bather’ (life-size), ‘Le Pont Marie’ (view of the Seine at Paris), ‘The Reader' (portrait of a girl) (in 1924, articles detailed O’Callahan still life canvasses with flowers and fruits)
1923-1933 - Salon de Tuileries, Paris - annually for over a decade
1922-1933 - Salon des Independents, Paris - annually for over a decade
1923 - Carnegie International Exhibition, Pittsburg - ‘At the Bath’ received warm praise by Augustus John as “one of the most - or it may have been the most - significant picture in the exhibition”
1924 - Babcock Galleries, NYC, first one-man show Oct 1-15, 18 oils. Critics praised from Art News, New York Times, Saturday Evening Post, Hartford Courant.( Noted in articles were the following paintings: At the Bath, The Bathers, Still life of China Elephant on polished table, Vase of flowers on a small table with checkered spread, Hauling Nets, Mackeral Boat, Le Pont Marie exhibited Salon d’Automne in 1922, French Farmyard, Street in Brittany, View of Church at Villiera, La Rue de Vaugirard at Paris, Provincetown Fish Wharf)
1924 - Hartford Atheneum Annex, CT - one-man show, December, 28 oils (At the Bath, The Bathers, Still life of China Elephant on polished table, Vase of flowers on a small table with checkered spread, Hauling Nets, Mackeral Boat, Le Pont Marie exhibited Salon d’Automne in 1922, French Farmyard, Street in Brittany, view of Church at Villiera, La Rue de Vaugirard at Paris)
1925 - Salon Des Tuileries, Paris ( 5 canvases)
1925 - Grand Maison de Blanc, Paris ( 4 canvases)
1925 - Babcock Galleries, NYC - (noted: Fish Wharf Provincetown)
1926 - Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris - Exhibited with Group of American Artists and Sculptors in Paris, continued annually
1927 - Brooklyn Museum of Art, NYC - Exhibited with Group of American Artists and Sculptors in Paris
1927/28/29 - Exhibit of Group of American Artists in Paris traveled throughout the United States
1927 - Babcock Galleries, NYC
1927 - Salon du Franc, Paris - an exhibition of works by foreign artists as part of a campaign to rescue the Franc - ‘The Girl in the Green Robe’ (La Robe Verie’ sold to the French Government for 1,350 francs, received an official letter of recognition by Marshall Joffre)
1928/29 - Gallerie Knoedler at 17 Place Vendome, Paris, March, exhibited with Groups des Peintres et Sculpteurs Americans de Paris (Group of American Artists and Sculptors in Paris), attended by American Ambassador, Myron T. Herrick of Ohio, and Conservator of the Luxembourg Museum, Charles M. Masson, and French Minister of Fine Arts, Paul Leon, along with American and French Government officials (April 1, 1928, The Louisville Kentucky The Courier-Journal by Dunning) (New York Herald, Paris, Tuesday, March 12, 1929) - articles mention several canvases representing art students perched on stools sketching in the studio, racehorse scenes ‘before’ and ‘after’ races
1929 - Babcock Galleries, NYC - sold ‘La Femme Enceinte’ (composition of dark and fair women against an exotic background) for $2000, ‘In the Garden’ (a figure of a young woman)
1930 - Babcock Galleries, NYC - Nov 17-29, exhibited with Harold English, Oscar Gieberich, Norman Mason. Noted: ‘Barefoot Girl’
1930-1931, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, Dec 21, 1930 - Jan 11, 1931, exhibited with Milton Avery, Aaron Berkman, Russell Cheney, organized by Chick Austin ( noted; O’Callahan exhibited 8 oils of Paris, 2 with race tracks, and 4 watercolors, all flowers)
1937 - Wertheim Gallery, London, exhibited watercolors of Cornwall and South of France
1941 - Independent Painters and Sculptors of Hartford, Seventh Annual Exhibition, April 25-May 17, 1941
1947 - Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa - Retrospective, Feb 1947
1959 - Galerie Cambaceres, Paris - Retrospective, Dec 31 - Jan 7th, 1959
1994 - William Benton Museum of Art, UCONN, Storrs, CT, March 29 - May 22, 1994 ‘Art in Connecticut: Between World Wars’, exhibited ‘Street in Pont Aven, Brittany’
2004 - Mystic Art Association, Mystic CT - Retrospective, April 8 - May 15, 2004