Mary Cecil Allen b. 2 September 1893

Also known as Cecil Allen
  • Artist (Painter)
An accomplished artist and writer, Allen was also a prolific lecturer, she was the first lecturer to be employed by the National Gallery of Victoria and while living in New York she organised the city's first exhibition of Australian art which she also lectured about.

Citations

  • Derham, Frances, 'Mary Cecil Allen’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.7.

  • McCulloch, Alan /McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, St Leonards, NSW.

  • Allen, Mary Cecil (1928), 'The Mirror of the Passing World’, New York, USA.

  • Allen, Mary Cecil (1929), 'Painters of the Modern Mind’, New York, USA.

  • (1950), Meanjin, no. 3.

  • reference and illustration of her work in Summary of practice given in Nanette Carter & Robyn Oswald-Jacobs. Frances Burke, Designer of Modern Textiles. Melbourne Univ. Press, 2021, 221 pages, illustrated, p.97

See also

  • 'Heritage: ADD section 11: plate 490'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book