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Allan Randall Freelon BIOGRAPHY
1895 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1960 Telford, Pennsylvania. 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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 Kandins... Read full biography
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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-i...But wait, there's more...
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