BURTON CALLICOT
24 March - 18 April 2026
Artwork List
in order of appearance
1) Embrace, 1964 oil on canvas, 50 x 40 in
2) Descent, 1969 oil on canvas, 72 x 51 in
3) Day - Night Wall, 1970 oil on canvas, 45 x 55 in
4) Sun Leak, 1970 oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in ,
5) Palace Wall, 1970 oil on canvas, 45 x 55 in
6) Souvenier of Ste Chapelle, 1973 oil on canvas, 60 x 60 in
7) Homage to the Rainbow, 1973 oil on canvas, 66 x 45 in
Born in 1907 in Terre Haute, Indiana, Burton Callicott spent much of his childhood and his seventy-year career as an artist and educator in Memphis. Callicott graduated in 1931 from the Cleveland School of Art. He was a founding member of the Memphis College of Art in 1937, where he had an influential tenure teaching sculpture, ceramics, drawing, painting and calligraphy until he was named Professor Emeritus in 1978. Callicott’s works have been exhibited at various museums across the state and region, including the Cheekwood Museum of Art and the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, the West Tennessee Regional Art Center in Humboldt, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Carroll Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University, the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia. Samples of his artwork are on permanent display at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and the Memphis Pink Palace Museum.