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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 Remington, Allen... Read full biography
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 Remington, Allen began to draw animals during his grammar school years in his native Jersey City. He received his first official art training in weekend p... Read full biography
Douglas Allen - Artist Info
About Douglas Allen: Books
Books & Publications (9)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park
2002
Hassrick, Peter H
248 pages (color)
Art for the New Collector 1840-2001 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Spanierman Gallery
48 pages (color)
Wildlife Art (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Editor, Spanierman Gallery
0 pages
From the Inside Out: Contemporary Wildlife and the Legacy of Carl Rungius
2000
Evenden, Kirstin and Dwayne Harty
36 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
Art and the Animal, The Society of Animal Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Peterson, Roger Tory (Foreward)
120 pages (color)
Douglas Allen A Journey to the World (Exhibition catalog)