Edith Kallman

American
(1926–2014)

Sketch for Obsessive Series
1978

Color pencil on board
10.25 x 10.25 x 1 in.
Gift of Steven Wolf
2019.11

Kallman’s work focuses on morphing words into patterns, shapes, or graphic images. Several scholars have described her work as graffiti or calligraphy. The words incorporated into her work are personally important to her and many convey messages about social or political issues. In 2017, hundreds of Kallman’s paintings were destroyed when her daughter’s home, which housed almost all of her paintings, was burned in a wildfire. Today, Kallman’s daughter, Melanie, creates and sells prints of her mother’s remaining artworks in an effort to increase the influence of her mother’s work.

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This object has the following keywords:

• abstraction
• blue
• lines
• yellow

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction , 8/25/2020 - 7/9/2022