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Raye Virginia Allen
5880 Hartrick Bluff Road
Temple, Texas 76502
Telephone: 254.773.6218
Fax: 254.773.5093
Raye Virginia McCreary Allen is a cultural historian, author, and lecturer specializing in an American studies interdisciplinary approach to the biography of women artists, female images in mass culture, and modern art and design movements of the early twentieth century. Allen's illustrated biography/cultural history, Gordon Conway: Fashioning a New Woman (1998) received the Liz Carpenter Women's History Award from the Texas State Historical Association and the Violet Crown Non-Fiction Award from the Austin Writers' League.
Presentations
An Image-maker from Texas: Woman Artist Gordon Conway Celebrates the Jazz Age
This slide lecture highlights Gordon Conway's internationally acclaimed artwork and career in magazine illustration, advertising art, and stage and film costume and set design in New York, London, and Paris between the world wars.
A New Look for a New Woman: The Designs and Times of Gordon Conway
This slide lecture explores the cultural impact of female images of the between-the-world-wars era produced by Texas-born woman artist Gordon Conway (1894–1956).