"Portrait of Mary Cecil Allen" Photo taken in the 1920s
Born
Mary Cecil Allen
(1893-09-02)2 September 1893
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
7 April 1962(1962-04-07) (aged 68)
Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States
Resting place
Provincetown Cemetery
Alma mater
National Gallery of Victoria Art School
Notable work
Sea, studio: Winter, Sorento Hotel
Style
Cubism
Mary Cecil Allen (2 September 1893 – 7 April 1962[1]) was an Australian artist, writer and lecturer. She lived most of her adult life in America, where she was known as Cecil Allen. Allen initially painted landscapes and portraits in her early career, but changed to modernist styles including cubism from the 1930s. In 1927 Allen lectured at New York City venues including the Metropolitan Museum, Columbia University and other institutions. She was sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation. Allen wrote two books of art criticism, The Mirror of the Passing World (1928) and Painters of the Modern Mind (1929), based on her lectures.
In 1930 Allen curated the first exhibition of Australian art in New York, "First Contemporary All-Australian Art Exhibition", at the Roerich Museum. During her lectures and talks in Australia, she helped introduce the ideas of modernism to Melbourne women and artists. After living in New York, from 1949 Allen lived in Provincetown at its art colony. Her cubist style painting, "Sea, studio: Winter", was presented in that year. She died in 1962, at the colony, from "sinus arrest, cause unknown" (see sinoatrial arrest).
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