Lee Allen Collection of card paintings 1988-1997 1995-1997.

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Lee Allen Collection of card paintings 1988-1997 1995-1997.

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The Lee Allen Collection of Card Paintings consists of one document box containing 54 paintings on individual cards each measuring, on average, five by seven inches. The collection also includes 48 photographic prints of many of the paintings. The paintings chronicle Mr. Allen's personal experience with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), symptoms of which he first noticed at age 78. They were used in part to illustrate his book, The Hole in My Vision: An Artist's View of His Own Macular Degeneration (Iowa City, IA: Penfield Press, 2000). The collection is arranged in two series: paintings and photographic prints. Each series is arranged first by depiction of left eye ("O.S.") and right eye ("O.D.") activity. Within the O.S. and O.D. groupings the images are arranged chronologically. Notes by the artist are on the back of each image and generally include information about date, time, and references to pre- and post-treatment, such as laser therapy.

0.25 linear ft.

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University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.

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University of Iowa. Dept. of Ophthalmology.

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Allen, Lee, 1910-2006

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Edwin Lee Allen was born in 1910 in Muscatine, Iowa. After graduating from East High School in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1928, Mr. Allen enrolled at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines. (Cumming had founded the art departments at Cornell College in 1880 and at the University of Iowa in 1909). In the fall of 1929 Mr. Allen enrolled at the University of Iowa where he studied art. In 1933, he was invited by renowned artist Grant Wood to work with him on a series of public art projects funded by the ...