Bowker Biography:
Irene Prentice Allemano

 

Sydney Prentice

“Prentice became known for his fanciful writings and charming illustrations. His artistry comes straight from elf land and transmutes all it touches.” (Graduate Magazine of Kansas University 1919). He became an internationally renowned scientific artist whose drawings of fossils are still studied today. For 45 years he was the artist-in- resident at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh with artist-on-loan status to museums around the country. His sudden death in 1944 left an unfinished manuscript of a story, which lay forgotten for 50 years until a curious chance circumstance brought it to light.

His daughter. Irene Prentice Allemano, nationally known artist in a 15th century icon art medium, set up households and took them down in 9 countries of the Americas where her husband Peter’s Statement Department work took them. Each country presented her with a new philosophy and or spiritual discipline. Now living in St. Augustine Florida she discovered her father’s photo displayed on the TV program, “The Paleo World”. This triggered a telephone search ending with a call to Carnegie Museum. “Was he a writer?” they asked. “We have some of his notebooks”. Here is her transcription of the classical soul quest story with the three questions the seeker must answer to find the meanings to the challenges of life’s purpose. Illustrations include one of Irene’s gold icons along with adaptations of her father’s pen and ink illustrations from different magazines.
“Lay up for thyself a treasury of dreams. Every man’s life is but his dream of life. The birth of a new dream is as the rising of the morning star. Tune thy dream of life to the universe for the universe is the Dream of God’”
Tale of the Turk

ISBN: 0-9666998-0-7

 

Email: allemano@aug.com