After beginning his career as an illustrator, Douglas Allen, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, has emerged as a strong colorist among today's wildlife painters. Portraying animals and their landscape settings, he creates images that sparkle with light and suggest the tensions and quiet dramas of life in the wild.

Whether depicting animals against broad backdrops, such as high mountain lakes, vast rolling grasslands, and misty forests, or in more intimate environments, Allen's works are intended to establish a strong sense of place and mood.

His images carry on the legacy of such noted painters as Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, and Carl Rungius. Encouraged by his father, who collected books, prints, and paintings by Remi...