March Issue 2000
The Verner Gallery, in Charleston, SC, Presents Works by Corrie McCallum
The Verner Gallery,
the oldest contemporary fine arts gallery in the city of Charleston,
SC, is pleased to announce an exhibition entitled, Early and
Late, featuring work by Corrie McCallum. The works shown will
be ink drawings and fine art prints including lithographs and
monotypes. There will be work from three decades ago as well as
recent work. The exhibit opens on Mar. 6 and continues through
Mar. 31, 2000.
McCallum's long career includes many years
of teaching and working in the arts education field. The Charleston
community owes a great debt to her for the dedication she gave
the Gibbes Museum of Art and other teaching ventures. Her artwork
varies from studious illustration to lyrical loose abstractions
and has been widely shown including a retrospective at the Gibbes
a few years back.
McCallum was born in Sumter, SC, in 1914. She studied art at the
University of South Carolina and the Boston Museum School of Fine
Art. In 1936, McCallum directed a gallery space for the WPA/Federal
Art Project where she exposed school children to works by South
Carolina's finest artists.
Over a period of four decades, McCallum held a variety of teaching
positions: at the Charleston School of Art (which she founded
with husband William Halsey and fellow artist Williard Hirsch,
a sculptor), Newberry College in SC, The Telfair Academy in GA,
and the Gibbes Art Gallery in Charleston (now the Gibbes Museum
of Art). At the same time, she was having major exhibits in places
like Charleston, Boston and Zurich, as well as participating in
group exhibits throughout the region and country. In 1960, McCallum
became the Gibbes Art Gallery's first professional Curator of
Art Education, bringing art to over 20,000 children in public
schools yearly. In 1971, she accepted a position at the College
of Charleston where she taught for eight years and helped establish
the fine art print department.
McCallum's first experience with fine art printmaking
was made during visits to fellow artist and friend, Jasper Johns,
when he was still living on Edisto Island, SC.
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