"What I paint is African-American images that are removed from any racial overtone. With a lot of African-American art, you get the feeling race is a constant part of life. But it's really not. Like 'Sun Drops' (Allen's watercolor of a young black girl near a clothesline) -- to her, being African-American is not an issue at all. Homer (Winslow) has a painting called 'The Cotton Pickers.' It's two African-American girls picking cotton, but you can tell their minds are a hundred miles away. . . . Whether my work is intentionally romantic, I don't know. I call them natural. They're images that I've seen all my life."
| A quote from watercolorist Leroy Allen in Doug MacCash's New Orleans Times-Picayune review "ROMANTIC REALISTS: Watercolorists demonstrate mastery of the medium"
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