Lot 92: WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN (1894 - 1988) Dunes

Name: WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN (1894 - 1988) Dunes
Brand: International Art Centre
SKU: 733452cab9
Price: 800 NZD

Est: $1,000 NZD - $2,000 NZDPassed

International Art CentreAuckland, New ZealandMay 19, 2020

Item Overview

Description

WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN (1894 - 1988) Dunes, Oil on board, Signed, 30 x 40cm

Artist or Maker

William Henry Allen

Literature

William Henry Allen ((1894-1988) was one of a group of British art teachers recruited in the 1920s by William Sanderson La Trobe, the nation's Superintendent of Technical Education, whose intention it was to greatly improve the quality of art education in New Zealand. W H Allen had attended London's Royal College of Art from 1919 to 1923. His contemporaries there included Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth; fellow students Roland Hopkins, Jenny Campbell and Robert Nettleton Field also immigrated to New Zealand and became lifelong friends. The contribution of the La Trobe artists, particularly W H Allen and R N Field had an on-going and profound effect on the development of New Zealand art. Their teaching of early modernism opened the door to an avant-garde post-impressionist period in New Zealand's art history. They influenced artists such as Toss Woollaston, Colin McCahon and Doris Lusk who embraced these new ideas, attitudes and techniques. Hocken Librarian Sharon Dell says the influence of W H Allen and his fellow La Trobe teachers produced landscapes and portraits in a style that was at first deeply unacceptable to painters and art societies in New Zealand - still entrenched in their Victorian style of art. W H Allen taught in Dunedin and Nelson. He was President of the Suter Art Gallery Society, teaching Workers Education Association (WEA) classes and participating in the Canterbury Summer Schools which attracted artists Doris Lusk and Leo Bensemann to Nelson. Colin McCahon and Toss Woollaston also regularly spent their summers there. After returning to England in the late 1930s, W H Allen's art and reputation as a teacher were all but lost and until recently, little research done on his contribution to New Zealand art. Following the family's return to England in 1946 W H Allen taught at the South West Essex School of Art, London, retiring in 1961. In 2008 a significant collection of W H Allen's work was repatriated from the United Kingdom and gifted to Dunedin's Hocken Library. The Tui Rata Frowd bequest contained about 80 artworks including oil paintings and works on paper, and a large archival collection of letters, correspondence, photographs, catalogues and articles relating to William Allen. In 2015 the Hocken Library held a major exhibition, W H Allen & The La Trobe Effect. This exhibition shone a light on W H Allen's contribution to the emergence of early regionalism in New Zealand. In addition to showcasing W H Allen's practice the show included works by his La Trobe peers, several of Allen's students and a sample of work by the early twentieth century British artists associated with the Camden Town Group whose post-impressionist style and subject matter inspired W H Allen, his peers and a swathe of this country's regionalist painters. International Art Centre thank Robyn Notman and Sharon Dell of the Hocken Library for their assistance. Sheila Allen (W H Allen's daughter) was born in New Zealand in 1926. She lived in Dunedin until aged four, when she moved with her mother, father and sister Tui, back to England for a new role for her father. The family returned to New Zealand for a teaching role in Nelson when she was seven - leaving again at age 20. She had told the University of Otago her childhood in New Zealand was idyllic, yet she returned again to live out her years in the UK, eventually having a career as an artist herself, training to be a silversmith in her 70s. Sheila died in early 2018.

Provenance

From the collection of the Estate of artist's daughter Sheila

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