Charles Eugene Shannon,
American Artist,
1914-1996

Charles Eugene Shannon, American Artist, 1914-1996Charles Eugene Shannon, American Artist, 1914-1996Charles Eugene Shannon, American Artist, 1914-1996
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Charles Eugene Shannon,
American Artist,
1914-1996

Charles Eugene Shannon, American Artist, 1914-1996Charles Eugene Shannon, American Artist, 1914-1996Charles Eugene Shannon, American Artist, 1914-1996
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October Beach/Two Men, Oil on Canvas, ca. 1991

SELECTIVE EXHIBITIONS


ONE MAN SHOWS

  • Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Alabama
  • The Cleveland School of Art Gallery, Ohio
  • Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, New York
  • Retrospective: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, North Carolina; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama; Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama; The Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee; Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston, South Carolina; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
  • and others 



NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS BY INVITATION


  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
  • Whitney Museum of Art, New York, New York
  • St. Louis Museum of Fine Art, Missouri
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, ,Ohio
  • Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
  • Cleveland School of Art Gallery, Ohio
  • Ferargil Galleries, New York, New York
  • National Arts Federation Visual Arts Touring Program, Atlanta, Georgia
  • and others



INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS BY INVITATION


  • Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
  • Golden Gate Exposition, San Francisco, California
  • New York World Fair, New York, New York
  • and other



PORTRAITS


  • Georgia State Capitol, 
  • Alabama Supreme Court, 
  • University of Alabama,
  • Birmingham Southern, 
  • The Eye Foundation, UAB, Birmingham, Alabama, 
  • Alabama Chamber of Commerce 
  • and many corporate private collections.



PHOTOGRAPHY

 

  • Monroe Street Area Photographs, with images of the artist Bill Traylor, Montgomery, Alabama. Josef Helfenstein, Director Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland, would be the first to site the historic and artistic significance of this work.
  • WWII photographs, South Pacific Theatre, Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island



CHARLES SHANNON ARTWORK         EITHER REPRODUCED OR REVIEWED


Magazines:

  • Time, 
  • Newsweek, 
  • Fortune, 
  • Survey Graphic, 
  • Art News, 
  • Art Digest 
  • and others

Newspapers:

  • New York Times, 
  • New York Herald Tribune, 
  • New York World Telegram, 
  • New York Sun, 
  • The Washington Post, 
  • Chicago News, 
  • Cleveland Press, 
  • Cleveland Plain Dealer, 
  • New Orleans Time Picayune 
  • and others

Books:

  • The Negro in Art by Alain Locke; 
  • Soldier Art, Infantry Journal,Special Services Division, Army Service Forces, New York, New York;
  • The Art of the Engineer by Lincoln Kirstein, unpublished;
  • WWII by James Jones
  • and others


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