biography of Lee ALLEN (1910-?)

Birth place: Muscatine, IA

Addresses: Iowa City, IA

Profession: Painter, illustrator

Studied: Cumming School of Art, Des Moines; Univ. Iowa; pupil of Grant Wood, Harriet Macy, Velma Wallace Rayness, Gerard Rayness, Arthur Dillon, Ruth Winkinson, Aden Arnold, Catherine Macartney, Francis McCray, Harry Stinson. Studied and sketched in Mexico, 1935.

Exhibited: Iowa Art Salon, 1929, 1930 (prize),1931 (first prize), 1932, 1934, 1935; Mid-Western Exhibit., Kansas City, MO, 1935; AIC, Salons of Am.; 1936; All Iowa Show, Chicago, 1937; Artists Exhibit., Mount Vernon, IA, 1938.

Work: Iowa Memorial Union; Delta Upsilon Fraternity, Iowa City; murals, USPOs, Onawa, Emmetsburg, Iowa Medical Illus.; Univ. Iowa Hospitals; Iowa State College.

Comments: Positions: medical illustrator, Univ. Iowa Hospital.

Sources: WW40; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 14; Marlor, Salons of Am.