Paintings—Watercolors
Even now, when man's place within nature is so compromised and dishonorable, and nature itself so damaged, I feel fortunate that life and desire have led me to a place where beauty persists, splendid and effortless, and where my imagination can meet it without equivocation.
Page Allen, The Eiteljorg Invitational 2, New Art of the West; The Artist's Response to Nature, catalogue, 1991
Cranes Descending
Flicker Moment
Red Flight
Sentinel Cardinal
The Shore
Trout Pool
Page Allen's art is firmly centered in the tradition of ... early American modernists. Since pompous exaggerations of scale— in art, inspiritual aspiration, and in the way that nature is regarded— are now characteristic of our culture, she has chosen her ancestors with particular care. Her art provides a useful, as well as an inspiring, model of how we might respond to the natural world. While her work is certainly rhapsodic, for example, it never seems to depend upon overselling or exaggeration. There is an undercurrent of melancholy that gives measure to her rhapsody.
Mark Stevens, Owings Dewey Fine Art catalogue
Mark Stevens writes for Vanity Fair, New York Magazine and is the author, with Annalyn Swan, of De Kooning, a Biography and Francis Bacon, Revelations.