Henry Allen Figures

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Posted by Henry Allen at 12:42 PM

Henry Allen: Intense. Mercurial. Bald. Bearded. (See "Picture of My Face.") Artist: Solo shows June 2009 at Strathmore Hall, N. Bethesda, Md., Chebeague Island Library, August 2012. Group shows: 2008, Truro, Mass. "Celebrating the Hopper Landscape" and 2010, Washington, DC, "Celebration of the Figure," Museum of Contemporary Art. Marine veteran of Vietnam. Backpacked to India, the whole '60s show. Journalist, poet, novelist. Critic in New York Review of Books, New Yorker. Editor, staff writer at The Washington Post. Pulitzer Prize for criticism, 2000. Studied English and art at Hamilton College, art at Montgomery College, Corcoran Gallery. Taught cultural analysis in U. of Maryland honors program. Currently playing with idea that contrary to modernist dogma, essence resides not in simplicity but complexity. SEE ALSO: http://henryallenfigures.blogspot.com CONTACT:henryallen4@gmail.com

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