Harry Epworth Allen

ARTIST

Allen, Harry Epworth

1894 – 1958

Painter, notably in tempera, especially of Derbyshire. Born in Sheffield, Allen attended King Edward VII School for boys, and then became a clerk in the steel works of Arthur Balfour, in his spare time attending Sheffield Technical School of Art. He served in the army in World War I, gaining the Military Medal for conspicuous gallantry. Although badly injured and having an artificial leg, Allen continued to paint and became Balfour’s confidential secretary. From 1931 he painted full-time and joined the new Yorkshire Group of Artists. He began exhibiting at the RA, and showed with RBSA and PS. He also travelled in Ireland and was elected a member of the RBA in 1935. Although Allen’s early work is conventionally realistic he soon developed his distinctive style of simplified landscape and figure studies, which eventually were shown abroad in Canada and America. In the early 1940s Allen published a series of articles in The Artist on landscape painting in which he expounded his approach. His work is in a number of public galleries, notably Sheffield, Wakefield, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Newport, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. There was a memorial show at Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, in 1959 and in 1986. Lived in Ecclesall, Sheffield.

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Harry Epworth Allen

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Allen, Harry Epworth

1894 – 1958

Painter, notably in tempera, especially of Derbyshire. Born in Sheffield, Allen attended King Edward VII School for boys, and then became a clerk in the steel works of Arthur Balfour, in his spare time attending Sheffield Technical School of Art. He served in the army in World War I, gaining the Military Medal for conspicuous gallantry. Although badly injured and having an artificial leg, Allen continued to paint and became Balfour’s confidential secretary. From 1931 he painted full-time and joined the new Yorkshire Group of Artists. He began exhibiting at the RA, and showed with RBSA and PS. He also travelled in Ireland and was elected a member of the RBA in 1935. Although Allen’s early work is conventionally realistic he soon developed his distinctive style of simplified landscape and figure studies, which eventually were shown abroad in Canada and America. In the early 1940s Allen published a series of articles in The Artist on landscape painting in which he expounded his approach. His work is in a number of public galleries, notably Sheffield, Wakefield, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Newport, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. There was a memorial show at Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, in 1959 and in 1986. Lived in Ecclesall, Sheffield.

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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

Interior with beamed roof; two figures and two vases of flowers

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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

Landscape with stone bridge, circa 1935
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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

Study for Irish Ballerina

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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

Preliminary study for Whitsuntide, c. 1942

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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

A man operating a steel press

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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

Study for Whitsuntide, c. 1942

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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

Figure composition with hikers
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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

Study for The Eclipse, circa 1930
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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

An afternoon sleep

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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

Derbyshire Landscape
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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

Interior with a Windsor chair, a grandfather clock and a casement window
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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

Cracow, Yorkshire, 1932

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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

At the circus

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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

At the circus, two clowns and an elephant, circa 1930
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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

Study of the artist’s future wife, sleeping, 1924

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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

Southern French Landscape
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Harry Epworth Allen (1894 - 1958)

Southern French landscape, circa 1930

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