Burton Harry Callicott, artist, co-founder and teacher emeritus of the Memphis College of Art, died Sunday, November 23, at Baptist Hospital. He was a 1926 graduate of Memphis Tech High School, then known as Crockett Technical School, and the Cleveland School of Art (1931).
He was a member of the Theosophical Society, Brooks Memorial Gallery and Memphis Calligraphy Guild. He began his artistic career as a sculptor, which is reflected in his later studies of light and shadow, and their effect on gradations of color, especially around geometric solids. An early painting was exhibited at the World's Fair in New York, to great acclaim. Graduating in 1931, during the economic depression, he did many types of art, including some commercial and government grant work, historic Cotton Carnival floats, a creche for Elvis Presley's Graceland Christmas display, etc. Throughout his life he was generous with time and talent, not only in his formal teaching role, but professionally and socially. He seldom failed to donate a piece for the WKNO "Action Auction," or other fundraising for public benefit.
Mr. Callicott, the widower of Evelyne Baird Callicott (after 68 years of marriage), is survived by a daughter In Eugene, Oregon, a son in Denton, Texas, three grandchildren and a great-grandson, and many, many devoted friends and admirers.
Memorial Park Funeral Home had charge of services.
[parts derived from an orbituary published in The Memphis Commercial Appeal on Tuesday, November 25, 2003. Thanks also to the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), and the American Academy of the Arts of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Thanks to Linda Disney, Burtion's colleague and friend, and most of all to Linda Wayman, longtime friend of Findagrave and of Tech High.]
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He was a member of the Theosophical Society, Brooks Memorial Gallery and Memphis Calligraphy Guild. He began his artistic career as a sculptor, which is reflected in his later studies of light and shadow, and their effect on gradations of color, especially around geometric solids. An early painting was exhibited at the World's Fair in New York, to great acclaim. Graduating in 1931, during the economic depression, he did many types of art, including some commercial and government grant work, historic Cotton Carnival floats, a creche for Elvis Presley's Graceland Christmas display, etc. Throughout his life he was generous with time and talent, not only in his formal teaching role, but professionally and socially. He seldom failed to donate a piece for the WKNO "Action Auction," or other fundraising for public benefit.
Mr. Callicott, the widower of Evelyne Baird Callicott (after 68 years of marriage), is survived by a daughter In Eugene, Oregon, a son in Denton, Texas, three grandchildren and a great-grandson, and many, many devoted friends and admirers.
Memorial Park Funeral Home had charge of services.
[parts derived from an orbituary published in The Memphis Commercial Appeal on Tuesday, November 25, 2003. Thanks also to the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), and the American Academy of the Arts of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Thanks to Linda Disney, Burtion's colleague and friend, and most of all to Linda Wayman, longtime friend of Findagrave and of Tech High.]
Click Here for more on Burton and Evelyne Callicott.
Click Here for memorials of other Memphis Tech alumnae.
Burton Harry Callicott, artist, co-founder and teacher emeritus of the Memphis College of Art, died Sunday, November 23, at Baptist Hospital. He was a 1926 graduate of Memphis Tech High School, then known as Crockett Technical School, and the Cleveland School of Art (1931).
He was a member of the Theosophical Society, Brooks Memorial Gallery and Memphis Calligraphy Guild. He began his artistic career as a sculptor, which is reflected in his later studies of light and shadow, and their effect on gradations of color, especially around geometric solids. An early painting was exhibited at the World's Fair in New York, to great acclaim. Graduating in 1931, during the economic depression, he did many types of art, including some commercial and government grant work, historic Cotton Carnival floats, a creche for Elvis Presley's Graceland Christmas display, etc. Throughout his life he was generous with time and talent, not only in his formal teaching role, but professionally and socially. He seldom failed to donate a piece for the WKNO "Action Auction," or other fundraising for public benefit.
Mr. Callicott, the widower of Evelyne Baird Callicott (after 68 years of marriage), is survived by a daughter In Eugene, Oregon, a son in Denton, Texas, three grandchildren and a great-grandson, and many, many devoted friends and admirers.
Memorial Park Funeral Home had charge of services.
[parts derived from an orbituary published in The Memphis Commercial Appeal on Tuesday, November 25, 2003. Thanks also to the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), and the American Academy of the Arts of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Thanks to Linda Disney, Burtion's colleague and friend, and most of all to Linda Wayman, longtime friend of Findagrave and of Tech High.]
Click Here for more on Burton and Evelyne Callicott.
Click Here for memorials of other Memphis Tech alumnae.
He was a member of the Theosophical Society, Brooks Memorial Gallery and Memphis Calligraphy Guild. He began his artistic career as a sculptor, which is reflected in his later studies of light and shadow, and their effect on gradations of color, especially around geometric solids. An early painting was exhibited at the World's Fair in New York, to great acclaim. Graduating in 1931, during the economic depression, he did many types of art, including some commercial and government grant work, historic Cotton Carnival floats, a creche for Elvis Presley's Graceland Christmas display, etc. Throughout his life he was generous with time and talent, not only in his formal teaching role, but professionally and socially. He seldom failed to donate a piece for the WKNO "Action Auction," or other fundraising for public benefit.
Mr. Callicott, the widower of Evelyne Baird Callicott (after 68 years of marriage), is survived by a daughter In Eugene, Oregon, a son in Denton, Texas, three grandchildren and a great-grandson, and many, many devoted friends and admirers.
Memorial Park Funeral Home had charge of services.
[parts derived from an orbituary published in The Memphis Commercial Appeal on Tuesday, November 25, 2003. Thanks also to the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), and the American Academy of the Arts of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Thanks to Linda Disney, Burtion's colleague and friend, and most of all to Linda Wayman, longtime friend of Findagrave and of Tech High.]
Click Here for more on Burton and Evelyne Callicott.
Click Here for memorials of other Memphis Tech alumnae.
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