# Jere Allen

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**Jere Allen** is a visual [artist](/source/Artist) and a former professor of art at the [University of Mississippi](/source/University_of_Mississippi).[1][2]

## Life

Allen was born in 1944 in [Selma, Alabama](/source/Selma,_Alabama).[2] He received a BFA degree from the [Ringling School of Art](/source/Ringling_School_of_Art), and an MFA from the [University of Tennessee](/source/University_of_Tennessee).[3][4]

## Work

His work can be described as figurative and is typically inspired by [myths](/source/Mythology) and [symbols](/source/Symbol).he was labeled in 1999 by a regional newspaper as "the Mississippi [Rembrandt](/source/Rembrandt)".[citation needed] [Art and Antiques](/source/Art_and_Antiques) has described Allen as a "modern-day master" known for his "dramatic, electric colors."[citation needed]

His work can be found at the [Huntsville Museum of Art](/source/Huntsville_Museum_of_Art) and [Mobile Museum of Art](/source/Mobile_Museum_of_Art), both of which are in [Alabama](/source/Alabama). They can also be found at the [Meridian Museum of Art](/source/Meridian_Museum_of_Art), [Mississippi](/source/Mississippi), and [Coos Art Museum](/source/Coos_Art_Museum), in [Coos Bay](/source/Coos_Bay,_Oregon), [Oregon](/source/Oregon).[5]

In 2003, Allen's work toured Southeast Asia in the Washington-based Meridian International Center's exhibition, *Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century*.[citation needed]

## References

1. ["Gathering of southern artists offers a chance to work and learn"](https://news.google.com/newspapers?sjid=eM4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6873,146476&dq=jere-allen+-baptist+-church+-golf+-tournament&hl=en&id=lXYsAAAAIBAJ), Herald-Journal, 16 November 1986, retrieved 2011-02-09

1. Black, Patti Carr (1998), [*Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980*](https://archive.org/details/artinmississippi0000blac/page/177), Univ. Press of Mississippi, p. [177](https://archive.org/details/artinmississippi0000blac/page/177), ISBN 978-1-57806-084-9

1. ["Jere Allen"](https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/jere-allen/). Mississippi Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2019-04-08.

1. ["Jere Allen | The Mississippi Visual Arts Directory"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210127204023/http://www.msvisualarts.org/artist-search/detail/jere-allen). Archived from [the original](http://www.msvisualarts.org/artist-search/detail/jere-allen) on 2021-01-27. Retrieved 2018-07-09.

1. ["Jere Allen"](https://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/mississippi-artists/jere-hardy-allen). Mississippi Writers and Musicians. Retrieved 2019-04-08.

### Further reading

- The Mississippi Encyclopedia. United States, University Press of Mississippi, 2017. Page 25
- [Oxford's Southside Gallery currently featuring artist Jere Allen's ‘Transitions’ exhibit](https://oxfordeagle.com/2017/04/06/oxfords-southside-gallery-currently-featuring-artist-jere-allens-transitions-exhibit/)
- [Jere Allen among MIAL honorees](https://oxfordeagle.com/2017/06/03/jere-allen-among-mial-honorees/)
- [Mississippi Rembrandt: Jere Allen](https://www.hottytoddy.com/2023/12/08/mississippi-rembrandt-jere-allen/)
- [Enigmatic beauty in a complicated world](https://oxfordmag.com/enigmatic-beauty-in-a-complicated-world/)

## External links

- [Online gallery with Allen's works](http://www.jerehallen.com)
- [About Jere Allen at the Southside Gallery](https://web.archive.org/web/20070728103205/http://southsideartgallery.com/bio-jallen.htm)

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