# Albert Arthur Allen

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**Albert Arthur Allen** (May 8, 1886 – January 25, 1962) was an American figure photographer and film director known for [nude portraiture](/source/Nude_photography_(art)).

## Biography

Allen was born to a wealthy New England family in 1886, and was educated in Boston. At the age of twenty-one, he moved to California and spent years traveling and studying art. In 1916, he opened the Allen Art Studios in [Oakland, California](/source/Oakland,_California), where he devoted his efforts to refining photographic techniques. The studio later became known as the Allen Institute of Fine and Applied Art, before it was destroyed by a fire in 1925. The following year, Allen rebuilt the studio and called it the Classic Motion Picture Corporation, a venture that lasted two years before declaring bankruptcy.[1]

A motorcycle accident in 1923 left Allen permanently disabled, but he continued to work. His nude photographs were considered scandalous by American standards during the [Roaring Twenties](/source/Roaring_Twenties). He was indicted for sending obscene materials through interstate mail, and spent years in litigation.[2]

Little is known about Allen's later life. His first commercial exhibition did not take place until 1979, seventeen years after his death.[3]

Allen died in Hayward, California, at the age of 75.[4] He was survived by his son, Frederick.

## Filmography

- *[Forbidden Daughters](/source/Forbidden_Daughters)* (1927)

## Bibliography

- Allen, Albert Arthur (1919). *Alo Studies*. Allen Art Studios. ASIN B00088DF7E.[5]
- Allen, Albert Arthur & Kaplan, Daile (2001). *Premiere Nudes*. Twin Palms Publishers. ISBN 978-0944092880.

## References

1. Hughes, Edan Milton (1989). *Artists in California, 1786-1940*. Hughes Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0961611217.

1. Bowman, David (June 14, 2001). ["Roaring '20s women"](https://www.salon.com/2001/06/14/allen_4/). *[Salon](/source/Salon_(website))*

1. ["Albert Arthur Allen"](http://www.artnet.com/artists/albert-arthur-allen/). *[Artnet](/source/Artnet)*. Retrieved May 17, 2018.

1. ["Albert Arthur Allen"](https://americanart.si.edu/artist/albert-arthur-allen-6659). *[Smithsonian American Art Museum](/source/Smithsonian_American_Art_Museum)*. Retrieved May 17, 2018.

1. [[Google Books](https://books.google.com/books?id=TPksKEjg7f8C) "Alo Studies Advertisement"]. *[McClure's](/source/McClure's)*. Vol. 54, no. 1. March 1922. p. 118.

## External links

- [Albert Arthur Allen](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3810616/) at IMDb
- [Albert Arthur Allen](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/648728) at the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](/source/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art)
- [Albert Arthur Allen](http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2002005429.html) at the [Library of Congress](/source/Library_of_Congress)

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