Southwest Art highlighted Allen Tupper True: An American Artist in its April 2010 issue. Here is a reproduction of the coverage.
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Denver arts writer Georgia Garnsey has reported seeing Allen True’s delightful and unusual mural The Water Hole hanging at Denver’s City Hall Events Center, at 1144 Broadway in downtown Denver. The painting, signed and dated 1935, depicts jungle animals gathered near water. The last news about The Water Hole was that when Chris Christou turned […]
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During the Allen True’s West auxiliary exhibit at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver (October 2, 2009 – March 28, 2010), 823 single entries were written in the Allen Tupper True notebook placed by Manager of Visitor Services Edna Peltzmann on a music stand in the capitol rotunda where True’s eight History of Water in the […]
Denver’s Westword magazine selected the three Allen True’s West exhibits to receive its Best Historic Show – Solo Award (The three shows closed on March 28 and most of the paintings, sketches and illustrations are being packed to begin touring as one smaller exhibit to eight venues over the next two years.) Below is what […]
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The Delaware Art Museum presents On Assignment: American Illustration, 1850 – 1950, featuring over 50 paintings and drawings from the Museum’s nationally recognized collection of original illustrations, on view now through January 2, 2011. These works demonstrate the range of styles and subjects that characterized illustrations in American books and magazines from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. […]
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The Colorado Broadcasters Association has presented KBDI PBS – Colorado Public Television’s documentary Allen True’s West the 2009 Award for Excellence for best Mini-Documentary or Series. For those who live in the Denver area, you can see the program when KBDI rebroadcasts it on Tuesday, March 23 at 9 pm on Channel 12/12.1 The DVD […]
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John Andrews has written in the March 7th issue of the Denver Post his impressions of the current exhibit (closing March 28) of True’s work at the Denver Art Museum. He certainly has an interesting perspective. Here is the link to his article: http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_14515479
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Denver’s PBS station KBDI-12’s original production Allen True’s West, can now be watched online. The program showcases the life and art of Colorado’s foremost muralist, Allen Tupper True, whose later work captured the character of a region in transition from wild frontier to the modern West. Allen True’s West complements the on-going exhibitions of True’s […]
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Jimy Valenti has written a feature article about Allen True’s Colorado State Capitol murals in the February 5, 2010 issue of The Colorado Statesman. He interviewed “True historian” Jim Barrett; Peter Hassrick, Director Emeritus of Denver Art Museum’s Petrie Institute of Western American Art; and his granddaughter and co-author of True’s biography Victoria Tupper Kirby. […]
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