Charles Curtis Allen

Background

Allen, Charles Curtis was born on December 13, 1886 in Leominster, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles Curtis and Mary Jane (Bartlett) Allen.

Education

Educated Worcester (Massachusetts) Art Museum School.

Career

1 step-daughter, Sarah Woodland. Bronze medal Panama-Pacific Exposition. Water color prize, Boston Water Color Society.

Gold medal, Boston Art Club.

Medal for distinction in landscape painting, Boston Tercentenary, 1930. 1st prize in Audubon group, 1944.

Salmagundi Club lay members prize, 1944. Represented by water colors in Clark University Collection, Worcester, Massachusetts.

The New Rockland (Maine) Museum.

Representative by 2 in oil “Road to Boothbay” and “November Cloud” in the Currier Art Museum, Manchester, New Hampshire (U.S.) Paintings in permanent exhibitions Worcester Art Museum, Leominster and Fitswilliam public libraries, Brown University, Andover College. Water color “Westwood Hillside,” purchased, 1935, by Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Academician, 1945; member Boston Water Color Society (vice president), Guild of Boston Artists, Vermont Artists’ Guild, Incorporated., Grand Central Galleries (New York), Ogunquit Arts Association (honorary), American Water Color Society, Rockport Art Association, North Shore Art Association.

Achievements

• Charles Curtis Allen has been listed as a notable landscape painter by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Boston Water Color Society (vice president), Guild of Boston Artists, Vermont Artists’ Guild, Incorporated., Grand Central Galleries (New York), Ogunquit Arts Association (honorary), American Water Color Society, Rockport Art Association, North Shore Art Association. Club: Philadelphia Water Color.

Connections

Married Mistress.

Father:

Charles Curtis Allen

Mother:

Mary Jane (Bartlett) Allen

Spouse:

Mistress