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Allan Randall Freelon

Allan Randall Freelon (1895 - 1960) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Allan Freelon is known for Landscape, harbors, still life paintings.

An African-American post-impressionist known for his imaginative use of color in his renderings of the ports of Gloucester, Allan Randall Freelon was born in Philadelphia on 2 September 1895.  He  studied at the Philadelphia Museum and School of Industrial Art, then at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated with a B.S. in Education.  His art teachers were Earle Horter (1881-1940), Emile Gruppe (1896-1978), and Hugh Breckenridge (1870-1937), whose classes in Gloucester attracted Freelon for many summers.  The Breckenridge School of Art at Rocky Neck opened in 1920, at which point Breckenridge was turning to abstraction.  For instance, his painting The Mills, of 1916, might best be described as neo-impressionistic with its unified surface texture of uniform brushstrokes, while The Lake, painted in the same year, looks forward to his Kandinsky-like abstractions of the 1930s.  Meanwhile, his student Freelon received an MFA degree from   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6284 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Allan Randall Freelon

   Publications  Book References:  14
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Allan Randall Freelon
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review The Rediscovery of Allan R Freelon February 2000 Verderame, Lori Yes
14 Book References for Allan Randall Freelon
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1993 Schwarz-Philadelphia European & American Painting Philadelphia Collection LIII
(Exhibition catalog)
48 Yes
1990 McElroy, Guy C Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940
(Exhibition catalog)
190 Yes
1990 Robert Schwarz American and European Paintings (Schwarz Galleries, Philadelphia)
(Exhibition catalog)
32 Yes
1989 Reynolds, Gary/Beryl J Wright Against the Odds African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation
(Exhibition catalog)
298 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1960 Dover, Cedric American Negro Art 186 Yes
1943 Porter, James A Modern Negro Art 272 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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