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Marion Boyd Allen

Marion Boyd Allen (1862 - 1941) was active/lived in Massachusetts, California.  Marion Allen is known for Landscape, portrait and figure-Indian painting.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Marion Allen was a prolific New England painter of portraits and landscapes, but did not begin landscape painting until later in her career. She was a pupil of Edmund Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson at the School of The Boston Museum of Fine Arts and exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.

In 1925, at the age of sixty-three, she left her Boston studio to make the first of many trips West including California Washington and Oregon, and it was in these places that she added landscape painting to her subject matter. She scaled mountains, lived in isolated cabins, and experienced numerous hardships and daredevil adventures to capture special vantage points in her landscapes.

Spending ten summers in Arizona ending in 1936, she painted the Grand Canyon and other scenery, but her reputation in the West remains primarily with portraits s   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2451 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Marion Boyd Allen

   Publications  Book References:  25
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Marion Boyd Allen
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940 October 2001 Hirshler, Erica E Yes
25 Book References for Marion Boyd Allen
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Fahlman, Betsy; (Essay); Lonnie Pierson Dunbier, (Directory) Arizona's Pioneering Women Artists: Impressions of the Grand Canyon State Directory Listing of 479 Women Before 1945
(Exhibition catalog)
92 Yes
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
2001 Hirshler, Erica E A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940 227 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Kinsey, Joni Louise The Majesty of the Grand Canyon 150 Years in Art 159 Yes
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1998 Vose Galleries Mary Bradish Titcomb and Her Contemporaries at the Fenway Studios
(Exhibition catalog)
54 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Schall, Ellen (others) American Art/American Vision Paintings from a Century of Collecting
(Exhibition catalog)
164 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1987 National Museum of Women National Mus of Women in the Arts 253 Yes
1987 Tufts, Eleanor (others) American Women Artists 1830-1930
(Exhibition catalog)
256 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1977 Williams, Mary Frances Collection of American Art Randolph-Macon Women's College 211 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
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