James E. Allen (artist)

James Edmund Allen (February 23, 1894 – September 9, 1964) was an American illustrator, printmaker, and painter. His works add together a significant body of lithographs and etchings showing steelworkers, pipe workers, and further aspects of American industrial life, carefully composed compositions depicting "the daily heroism of America's industrial workers.” Allen was in addition to a prolific illustrator who, working mostly in oil, contributed numerous illustrations to stories in popular magazines of the day. He has been misidentified in many references as James Edward Allen.