biography of Clarence Canning ALLEN (1897-1989)

Birth place: Cleveland, GA

Addresses: Tulsa, OK

Profession: Painter, writer

Studied: Southeastern State Col. with Dr. Allen Berger & Ola Forbes; ASL, with George Bridgman & R P.R. Neilson; San Antonio Art Acad., Tex, with Jose Arpa', Xavier Gonzalez & Rolla Taylor; also with Molly Guion, Dimitri Romanovsky, Charles H Owens & Bettina Steinke.

Exhibited: Freedoms Found, Valley Forge, Pa., 1953-1956, 1958 & 1961; Giornate Mediche Int., Verona, Italy, 1963; La Caricature de Par le Monde, Troisieme Salon Int., Place Victoria, Montreal, PQ, 1967. Awards: Five nat. awards, Freedoms Found., 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 & top nat. award, 1954.

Member: Am. Artists Pro.f League; Nat. Soc. Mural Painters; Soc. Illus.; Assn. Am. Editorial Cartoonists; Nat. Cartoonists Soc.

Work: Libr. of Pres. Truman, Eisenhower & Johnson. Portraits: Sen. Robert S. Kerr, Mus. of Poteau, Okla.; Will Rogers, Will Rogers Hosp., Saranac Lake, NY; Indian Mus. of Creek Tribe, Okmulgee, Okla.; Osage Mus., Pawhuska, Okla. Also numerous private, hist. & found collections. Commissions: Early and Late Means of Disseminating News, Newspaper Printing Corp., 1953; Press Media Symbology, Tulsa Press Club, Okla, 1957; Creek Tribe Council Tree, Tulsa City Hall, 1969.

Comments: Positions: artist, art dir, ed & cartoonist, Tulsa World & Tulsa Tribune, 1929-1968. Publications: auth, Sketching, 1932; Biographical sketches of prominent Tulsans, 1949; Originality, 1950; Are you fed up with modern art?, 1952; also articles in numerous nat & regional mag. Teaching: Instr. graphic art, Cent. High Sch., San Antonio, Tex., 1924-1927; instr. fine art, private classes, Tulsa; instr. oil painting, Tulsa Garden Ctr.

Sources: WW73; John Chase, Today's Cartoon" (Hauser Press, New Orleans, 1962)."

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