- City:
- Anacortes, WA
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Murals
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA)
- Completed:
- 1940
- Artist:
- Kenneth Callahan
Description
Under the Treasury Section of Fine Art, “Seattle artist and museum curator Kenneth Callahan completed ‘Fishing’ in 1940. The mural provoked some outcry from the local community, who didn’t entirely agree with Callahan’s depictions of fishing.
“Callahan, one of the founders of the Northwest School (a Pacific Northwest art movements) served as a curator at the Seattle Art Museum between 1933-1963.”
(https://depts.washington.edu)
Source notes
https://depts.washington.edu/depress/map_post_offices.shtml
https://www.flickr.com/photos/auvet/545083769/in/photostream/
https://www.wpamurals.org/Anacorte.htm
Site originally submitted by The Living New Deal on December 6, 2012.
Additional contributions by Tim Bernthal.
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Tim Bernthal
Their is a discrepancy in the titles of the mural. Under the photo, the caption reads, “Halibut Fishing”, but in the text it is titled,, “Fishing”. I believe Fishing is the most likely correct title, as there was some controversy locally with the artist being criticized for not understanding or misrepresenting the fishing operation he was picturing.
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