Alice Callan

Photo of Alice Callan
1897 -
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BORN
circa 1897
Nebraska
EDUCATION
Kansas City Art Institute
Kansas City, Missouri
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, Missouri
GENDER
Female
RACE / ETHNICITY
White
OCCUPATION
Commercial Artist
Teacher

Alice Callan was an artist who was active in Kansas City during the 1920s. She attended Manual High School and graduated in 1914. She studied at the University of Missouri, graduating in 1918. She then studied art at the Kansas City Art Institute. 

Callan was the director of the art department at Manual Vocational High School in the 1920s. She was the adviser for the Art Club and for the Nautilus yearbook at the school. Callan was active in the Kansas City Society of Artists, serving as secretary for the group in 1926.

In 1921, Callan won a competition for the best display advertisement for the Kansas City Art Institute, which was sponsored by the Kansas City Star. 

In the early 1930s, Callan left Kansas City and moved to New York, where she worked as an art director for the United States Playing Card Company.

ACTIVE IN
MISSOURI
1920s / Kansas City
MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS
Kansas City Society of Artists
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS
United States Playing Card Company

Awards & Exhibitions 9

1921
Kansas City Star Competition

Organized by Kansas City Star

1923
Midwestern Artists' Exhibition

Organized by Kansas City Art Institute

1924
Midwestern Artists' Exhibition

Organized by Kansas City Art Institute

1925
Midwestern Artists' Exhibition

Organized by Kansas City Art Institute

1925
Kansas City Society of Artists Thumb-Box Exhibition

Organized by Kansas City Society of Artists, Conrad Hug Galleries

1926
Midwestern Artists' Exhibition

Organized by Kansas City Art Institute

1926
Kansas City Society of Artists Exhibition

Organized by Kansas City Society of Artists

1927
Midwestern Artists' Exhibition

Organized by Kansas City Art Institute

1928
Midwestern Artists' Exhibition

Organized by Kansas City Art Institute

1921
Award, Kansas City Star Competition
1925
Award, Midwestern Artists' Exhibition

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References

Artist clippings file is available at:

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“New York Art Calls: The Middle West Sends Many to the East,” Kansas City Star, June 5, 1932, 6G.

“Thumb Box Exhibit Varied: Third Annual Showing Emphasizes Art Development Here,” Kansas City Star, November 13, 1925, 15.

“Art Prizes to Four Here," Kansas City Star, January 30, 1925, 8.

“Miss Alice Callan’s ‘Ad’ Won,” Kansas City Star, June 23, 1921, 3.

“Alice Callan” in Savitar 1917 yearbook, University of Missouri, University of Missouri Digital Library, accessed April 7, 2022, https://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/savitar/id/6751.

Kansas City Public Library, Manual High School Yearbook - The Nautilus, 1914, accessed April 8, 2022, https://kchistory.org/document/manual-high-school-yearbook-nautilus-8?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=f0a6872558f03c7e4e19&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0&search=alice%2520callan.


Core Reference Sources

Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).

Anita Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists (Carrollton: A.J. Publications, 2002).

askART (database), askART, https://www.askart.com/.

Image Credits

Portrait of Artist

Unknown, Portrait of Alice Callan, 1916.

Photograph.

Included in University of Missouri, Savitar (Columbia: University of Missouri, 1916), 182.

Contributors

Roberta Wagener, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Artist Record Published

Published on April 18, 2022

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References

Artist clippings file is available at:

Bibliography

Select Sources

“New York Art Calls: The Middle West Sends Many to the East,” Kansas City Star, June 5, 1932, 6G.

“Thumb Box Exhibit Varied: Third Annual Showing Emphasizes Art Development Here,” Kansas City Star, November 13, 1925, 15.

“Art Prizes to Four Here," Kansas City Star, January 30, 1925, 8.

“Miss Alice Callan’s ‘Ad’ Won,” Kansas City Star, June 23, 1921, 3.

“Alice Callan” in Savitar 1917 yearbook, University of Missouri, University of Missouri Digital Library, accessed April 7, 2022, https://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/savitar/id/6751.

Kansas City Public Library, Manual High School Yearbook - The Nautilus, 1914, accessed April 8, 2022, https://kchistory.org/document/manual-high-school-yearbook-nautilus-8?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=f0a6872558f03c7e4e19&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0&search=alice%2520callan.


Core Reference Sources

Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).

Anita Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists (Carrollton: A.J. Publications, 2002).

askART (database), askART, https://www.askart.com/.

Contributors

Roberta Wagener, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Artist Record Published

Published on April 18, 2022

Updated on None

Citation

Wagener, Roberta. "Alice Callan." In Missouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951. Kansas City: The Kansas City Art Institute and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; St. Louis: The St. Louis Public Library, 2022, https://doi.org/10.37764/5776.