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George Warner Allen (1916–1988) was a British artist, considered to be of the Neo-Romantic school.[1]
Allen was born in 1916.[2] Lancing College [3] Robert Anning Bell and art critic James Greig , at Byam Shaw School of Art ,[3] [3] Brightwell-cum-Sotwell , near Wallingford in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire ).[3] [4]
Allen held a solo exhibition at the Walker's Galleries , London, in 1952, for which the catalogue's introductory essay was written by his fellow painter Brian Thomas .[1] T. S. Eliot , Sir John Betjeman , and The Earl Baldwin .[3] [3]
He converted to Roman Catholicism at Abingdon in 1973, after being asked to paint a tribute to Cardinal Newman .[3] [2]
Allen worked in oils ,[4] tempera ,[1] watercolour .[1] Picnic at Wittenham (1947–1948) and The Return from Cythera (1985–1986) are in the Tate Gallery , London.[1] [4] The Rubbish Dump (1955), showing Jesus over a backdrop of Black Country industrialisation, was commissioned by Canon David Wood, whose wife was Allen's cousin, as an altarpiece for the Black Country Industrial Mission at St. George's Vicarage in Wolverhampton .[5] Wolverhampton Art Gallery , purchased in part with a grant from The Art Fund .[5] Nuffield Foundation [3] Swindon Art Gallery , British Museum , Reading Museum and Wallingford Museum .[2]
Further reading [ edit ]
Thomas, Brian (1952). George Warner-Allen: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings . London: Walker's Galleries.
References [ edit ]
^ a b c d e f g h Delaney, Paul (4 October 1985). "Mastering the Masters" . Catholic Herald 7 . Retrieved 5 February 2013 .
^ a b c " . Tate Gallery . Retrieved 5 February 2013 .
^ a b "The Rubbish Dump, A Black Country Altarpiece by George Warner Allen" . The Art Fund . Retrieved 5 February 2013 .
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