Jere Allen
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Jere Allen is a visual artist and a former professor of art at the University of Mississippi.{{citation
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Life
Allen was born in 1944 in Selma, Alabama. He received a BFA degree from the Ringling School of Art, and an MFA from the University of Tennessee.{{cite web|url=https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/jere-allen/| title= Jere Allen |publisher=Mississippi Encyclopedia|accessdate=2019-04-08}}{{cite web |url=http://www.msvisualarts.org/artist-search/detail/jere-allen |title=Jere Allen {{!}} The Mississippi Visual Arts Directory |access-date=2018-07-09 |archive-date=2021-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127204023/http://www.msvisualarts.org/artist-search/detail/jere-allen |url-status=dead }}
Work
His work can be described as figurative and is typically inspired by myths and symbols.he was labeled in 1999 by a regional newspaper as "the Mississippi Rembrandt".{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} Art and Antiques has described Allen as a "modern-day master" known for his "dramatic, electric colors."{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}
His work can be found at the Huntsville Museum of Art and Mobile Museum of Art, both of which are in Alabama. They can also be found at the Meridian Museum of Art, Mississippi, and Coos Art Museum, in Coos Bay, Oregon.{{cite web|url=https://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/mississippi-artists/jere-hardy-allen| title= Jere Allen |publisher= Mississippi Writers and Musicians|accessdate=2019-04-08}}
In 2003, Allen's work toured Southeast Asia in the Washington-based Meridian International Center's exhibition, Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.jerehallen.com Online gallery with Allen's works]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070728103205/http://southsideartgallery.com/bio-jallen.htm About Jere Allen at the Southside Gallery]
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Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:21st-century American painters
Category:University of Mississippi faculty