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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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