Harold Allard

Background

(Harvey) Harold Allen was born in 1912 in Portland, Oregon, United States.

Education

Allen studied at, variously, the Art Institute of Chicago (1937-41), the School of Design, Chicago (1941), Life Magazine Photography School for the Armed Forces (1942), and the University of Chicago (1948-54). He has been influenced by the works of Atget, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott.

Career

Retired in 1977, Allen was a professor, prior to then, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1948-60 and 1966-77). He received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute in 1979. In 1978, at the Second Annual Chicago Art Awards, he received the "Special Artist Award: Body of Work." In 1971 the educator was awarded the Frederick Latimer Wells Professorship at the Art Institute.

Allen does documentary work with a 4 x 5 view camera. He concentrates on historical architecture and, in his words, has "the most extensive documentation of Egyptian-style American architecture in existence."

Achievements

• PUBLICATIONS Book: Father Ravalli’s Missions, 1972. Periodicals (inch text): "Egyptian Influences in Wedgwood Designs," 1962 (7th Wedgwood Intematl. Seminar); "Harold Allen: My Egypt," Exposure: SPE, Mar 1978; "Portrait of a Photographer as a Young Man," The New Art Examiner, June 1978.
  
  COLLECTIONS American Telephone St Telegraph Co.; Art Inst, of Chicago; Chicago Historical Society; L/C, Wash., D.C.; Mass. Inst, of Tech., Cambridge; Metro. Mus. of Art, NYC, among others.
  
  

Connections

teacher:

Edward Weston

Allen has been influenced by the works of Atget, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott.

teacher:

Ansel Adams

teacher:

Walker Evans