biography of Junius ALLEN (1898-1962)

Birth place: Summit, NJ

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter

Studied: N.Y. Sch. F. & App. A.; NAD, and with George Elmer Browne, Charles Hawthorne, George W. Maynard; Woelfle.

Exhibited: Audubon A.; WFNY 1939;, New Rochelle AA, 1932 (prize); AAPL; Plainfield AA 1931 (prize); Montclair AA, 1931 (med); AAPL; NAD, 1933 (Contemporary Gal., prize), 1955 (Ranger Fund purchase award); N.J. Gal., Newark, 1934 (prize); SC, 1939, 1941, 1944; All. A. Am., 1943; Vezin-James prize, 1949; Pepsi-Cola Exh., 1944

Member: ANA, 1934; NA, 1941; SC (Chm., A. Comm., and Cor. Sec., Vice-Pres.); All. A. Am.; Audubon A.; Summit AA; Grand Central Gal.; Montclair AA

Work: MMA; State T. Col., Trenton, N.J.; Gould Acad., Bethel, Me.; Summit (N.J.) H.S.; Montclair A. Mus.; A. Mus. of the New Britain Inst.

Comments: Positions: instr., Wayman Adams A. Sch., Elizabethtown, N.Y., 1951; vice-pres., NAD and Chm., School Comm., 1952. Painted on Monhegan Island (Me.).

Sources: WW59; WW47; Curtis, Curtis, and Lieberman, 36, 180.