Marking the Moment: The Art of Allen Blagden

The art of distinguished realist painter and watercolorist, Allen Blagden.

“There was a long bench in the living room of our house. And it was full of paper, crayons, watercolors—all the essentials for creating art.” And so begins Allen Blagden’s account of his career, training with his father, an art teacher at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. From his earliest days, art informed Allen Blagden’s life, taking him to the National Serengeti Park in Kenya, to the Smithsonian Inst...