Several new pieces of artwork by Danny Allen surfaced in a collection in North Carolina. I should probably have withheld publishing this one and kept it under wraps until after the book is published, but I was too excited by it. This is a 1972 graphite drawing that Dan did utilizing white pencil to create highlights. It’s a wonderful. This is one of the most delightful pieces I’ve seen. I don’t recall it, but he did it while we were living together.
In the same collection there’s a print of a piece that was gifted to me by R. James Cromwell. This print shows what the piece looked like prior to aging before the paper yellowed. Dan had a terrible habit of using non-archival things like LePage’s mucilage glue and masking tape with his mats. But the again, some of his best drawings were done on shopping bags and discarded cardboard.
An Early Work Late in Life 