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In his later work, Richard Callner turned his attention to both interior and exterior landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. The most striking features of these paintings are his use of strong colors, lines and patterns, combined with distorted perspectives. In Red Fields, East of Madrid, the brilliantly colors multiple fields receded to the converging tree-studded hills.
Richard Callner received an MFA from Columbia University. He held a variety of unversity teaching positions, and was chairman of the Art Department at the State University of New York at Albany from 1975 to 1981. He was the founding director of the Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy, and was the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants. His work was widely shown in the US and Europe and is represented in museum collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Detroit Art Institute, Worcester Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum and Walker Art Institute.
Red
Fields, East of Madrid
Richard Callner (1927-2007)
Watercolor, 1988
AIHA Collection
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