Portrait of Mary Cecil Allen
Title devised by cataloguer from inscription on photograph.
Inscriptions: "Mary"-- signed l.r. corner. "Mary Cecil Allen" --in pencil on reverse.
Condition: Silvering.
"MS 2000 material from Ivy Deakin's papers"--Compactus card.
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Melbourne born Mary Cecil Allen (known as Cecil Allen in the U.S.A.) was a painter of landscapes and portraits as well as a writer and lecturer on art. She arranged the first exhibition of Australian art in New York at the Roerich Museum in 1930. Although she lived in the United States from 1926 until her death in 1962 she returned to Australia on a number of occasions to hold exhibitions in Melbourne.
Keywords: Allen, Mary Cecil, -- 1893-1962 -- Portraits; Authors, Australian -- Australia -- Portraits; Painters -- Australia -- Portraits; Expatriate painters -- United States -- Portraits; Painters; Authors