in Manhattan. His sculptures are included in the collections of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland Maine, the Concord Art Association, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC. His own favorite piece, the heroic size Egyptian Head, was displayed in the New York World's Fair in 1939. On July 4, 1942, Allen unveiled a monument of George Washington in Fall River, Massachusetts which was reported to be "of such artistic merit and patriotic intent as to attract nation-wide interest." The monument, carved from Deer Island granite, depicts a central portrait bust of Washington upon a pedestal. Curved benches on either side of the bust extend toward carvings of a boy and girl. The monument was paid for by Catholic children of Fall River. It was the form that he turned to during the 1920s, carvings made directly from pieces of stone, mostly granite boulders from Maine that became the works closest to his heart and those for which he wanted to be remembered. He died January 9, 1961 at his retirement home in Rumney, New Hampshire at the age of 73. His assistant Elizabeth MacLean Smith wrote, "Here his teachings will go on, through his children and his pupils. And the granite boulders which he carved shall remain witness to a true sculptor". Lineage and influences Augustus St. Gaudens > Bela Pratt >Frederick Allen, Rodin > John Storrs (Allen's friend in Boston and Paris and a student of Rodin), Daniel Chester French (fellow townsman in Concord) Charles Grafly who succeeded Bela Pratt at SMFA from 1917 to 1929 as Head of the Sculpture Department and with whom he taught before he took over the department in 1929. References American Figurative Sculpture, Greenthal, Kozol and Ramirez, 1986, pp. 408–411, (258 pages, 18 color plates, 231 duotones) Allen's Diary in the hands of his son, transcribed copies made for family members Biography written by his wife Agnes H. Allen, copies with family members and in the Archives of American Art Essay by his assistant Elizabeth MacLean Smith, copies with family members and in the Archives of American Art College paper by Laurel Beetham about his studio on Tavern Road in Boston, also in the Archives of American Art Memories of her father written by Barbara A.Benton, original and transcriptions with her daughter Christina B. Abbott Records from the library of the School of