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ALLAN FREELON (1895 - 1960)
Untitled (Gloucester Coast)
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Oil on linen canvas, 1925. 610x762 mm; 24x30 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, PA.
Exhibited: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, NewYork, with the label on the verso.
This beautiful, Impressionist landscape is the earliest and most significant oil painting by Allan
Freelon to come to auction. Painted the year he graduated from the Pennsylvania Museum and
School of Industrial Art, this seascape is most likely a view of the Bass Rocks in Gloucester. This
serene coastal scene epitomizes Freelon’s interest in light and color. Freelon began painting
landscapes around the fishing port and town of Gloucester and visiting the artist colony there around
