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October Issue 2006
Pelter Gallery in Greenville, SC, Features Works by Corrie McCallum
The Pelter Gallery in Greenville, SC, is presenting the exhibit, A Woman in Motion, featuring paintings and prints by Corrie McCallum of Charleston, SC. The exhibit will be on view through Nov. 15, 2006.
McCallum was born in Sumter, SC, in 1914. She studied at theUniversity of South Carolina and at Boston Museum School of Art. In addition to pursuing her studies, she assisted in teaching art to children at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. While studying in Boston, she reconnected with William Halsey, also an artist, which she met while studying in South Carolina. The two were married in Boston on June 5, 1939. McCallum kept her maiden name which was unusual at the time.
William Halsey was awarded the James William Paige traveling fellowship and the couple moved to Mexico. In 1941, while in Mexico, their first child was born and they named her Paige after the fellowship. The couple returned to Charleston and McCallum's life became a balance of art and raising a family.
McCallum continued to paint and travel and teach. She taught at the Telfair Academy in Savannah, GA, The Gibbes Art School in Charleston, Castle Hill Foundation in Ipswich, MA, Newberry College in Newberry and the College of Charleston. McCallum and Halsey, also with sculptor Willard Hirsh, established the Charleston School of Art. Teaching art to children was an important part of who she is.
As their children grew older, McCallum and Halsey made yearly summer travels to points around the globe such as: Europe, Africa, South America and many times back to Mexico. But in 1968, she received a grant from the Hughes Scientific and Cultural Foundation, based in Charleston, which would send her on a solo trip to exotic spots around the world to places like: India, Iran, Bali and many others. McCallum picked up a bug in Cambodia and fought off her sickness through six different countries. It wasn't until she had a fever of 106 degrees in Austria that she had to finish the trip two weeks early. A woman traveling alone in third-world countries in the late 1960's was quite a challenge, but it was a trip she had to make - she had to prove to herself she could do it. And that McCallum did. The trip also presented years of inspiration.
McCallum is a student, an artist, a poet, a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. Her work has changed along with her life over the past 60 years. This exhibit begins with paintings from Mexico and travels through her life to her most current paintings and is a reflection of this woman in motion.
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