John E. Allen is an independent Artist who has been teaching, creating art and operating a Gallery and Frame Shop for the past 38 years. It has only been the past 7 years that I have had the opportunity to paint full-time. I am also listed as a provider for the General Service Administration.

The creation of this Web Site at jeallen.com has afforded me an opportunity to offer my paintings and services to a larger audience. I have listed below the products and services I currently provide.

Products and Services

• Prints, both Open Edition and Limited Edition
• Photo Reproductions
• Oil Paintings Individual Renderings
• Oil Painting Series
• Commissioned Portraits
• Commissioned Nudes
• Wholesale rates to Art establishments and Educational facilities (40%)
• Framing provided with all standard size Commissioned Paintings

Enjoy your visit at my web site and I look forward to being of service to you in the very near future.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

I was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania in 1939, the fifth of seven children. I started drawing at the age of ten, and was selected by my fourth grade teacher to participate in a four year art program at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

I earned my Bachelor and Master Degrees in Education from Wichita State University, and spent thirteen years teaching art in the Wichita Public School System, with four years as Department Chair. Teaching art led to a need to produce art, and my love of painting was born.

In 1975 I established a state certified commercial art school. I was also appointed by the Governor to serve as Commissioner with the Kansas Arts Commission 1975 to 1979.

In my early years of painting, I practiced my craft in stolen moments and hours sandwiched between the demands of job and family. I retired from the work place in 1994, opened my own Gallery and Frame Shop and finally my part time work, and first love became my full time endeavor.

In 1996 I embarked upon an intense three year study of anatomy, the drawings and paintings created during that period are available at my web site. Over the past twelve years I have experienced a steady loss of sight do to Glaucoma. To date I have lost eighty five percent of my sight, however I am blessed to be able to continue painting.

Although I have been painting since 1964, my most recent work, “The Black Experience” is my most comprehensive body of work that I have created to date. This is a twenty painting series, oil on canvas which depicts the African American experience in its full expression, from the time of our ancestral Kings and Queens, through the atrocities of slavery, up to present day.

Oil painting is my favorite medium, and my paintings can be found in private collections across the United States and in Nigeria, West Africa.

Contact Me

E-mail Address: sales@jeallen.com

Telephone: (316)686-3833 between 10:00am and 8:00pm, Eastern Standard Time, Mon. thru Sat.

Mailing Address: 3615 E. Kellogg Drive
Wichita, Kansas 67218-1245