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Allen, Paige (Painter) "What is one to make of these horses, handprints, angels, birds, roads...?"

Born September 6, 1951; St. Charles, IL, lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico


 * Education**

Princeton University (1969-1970) Northern Illinois University, Dekalb (MA, 1980) Later attended master classes with artists: Garner Tullis (1992) Beverly Pepper (1991) Richard Diebenkorn (1986) at Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts Since 1980 has exhibited in over 20 solo shows that include: Owings--Dewing Fine Art, Santa Fe (2000) Susan Coneway Gallery, Washington, DC (1998) Bontantica Fine Art, Bozeman, MT (1997)

In 2000, her work was selected for "Gardener's Delight" , the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Allen,s paintings are in the collections of the Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado; Eieljork Museum of American Indian & Western Art, Indianapolis; Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Residence, Art in Embassies Program, New York

According to art historian, Sharyn Udall, Page Allen is " fully conscious of her stance at the place where abstraction, figuration, and symbolism meet...Recognizable imagery is a springboard from here to there-a way to synthesize the material world with the world of spirit & mind."

Source:Women Artists of the American West, Edited by Susan Ressler