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The Wolfman Of Del Rio by Terry Allen

Artist Biography For Terry Allen

Terry Allen May 7 1943 In Wichita Kansas Is A Country Music Singer In The Outlaw Country Genre Painter And Conceptual Artist From Lubbock Texas And Living In Santa Fe New Mexico. His Father Was Fletcher "Sled" Allen B. August 23 1886 In West Plains Missouri – October 16 1959 In Lubbock Texas A Catcher In 1910 For The St. Louis Browns Who Continued His Career As A Player-Manager In The Texas League. He Attended Monterey High School In Lubbock Texas. His Contemporaries At Monterey High School Included Butch Hancock Jimmie Dale Gilmore Joe Ely Jo Harvey Allen And Jo Carol Pierce. Trained As An Architect He Received A B.F.A. From The Chouinard Art Institute In Los Angeles. His Art Has Been Supported By Three NEA Grants And A Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. His Work Trees The Music Literary And Third Trees Is Installed On The Campus Of The University Of California San Diego As Part Of The Stuart Collection. His Artwork Has Been Featured At The L.A. Louver Art Gallery In Venice California. Terry Allen Is Represented By Gallery Paule Anglim In San Francisco CA. His Works Are Represented In The Collections Of Many International Museums Including The New York Museum Of Modern Art The Detroit Institute Of Arts The Nelson/Atkins Museum In Kansas City The San Diego Museum Of Contemporary Art The Los Angeles County Museum Of Art The New York Metropolitan Museum Of Art L’Espace Lyonnais D'Art Contemporain Musee Saint Pierre Lyon France The Houston Museum Of Fine Arts The San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art The Dallas Museum Of Art And The Los Angeles Museum Of Contemporary Art. Terry Allen Recorded Eight Albums During The Years 1979 To 2004 And Collaborated With David Byrne On The Soundtrack For Byrne's Movie True Stories. Allen's Music Is Far From Traditional. A Quote Attributed To Allen States "People Tell Me It's Country Music And I Ask 'Which Country?'" Allmusic Calls His 1979 Release Lubbock On Everything "one Of The Finest Country Albums Of All Time" And A Progenitor Of The Alt-Country Movement

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