Alan Warren was an Australian artist born in 1919 in Victoria. He studied drawing and painting at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School during 1937-38. During World War 2, he served in the camouflage corps disguising perimeter defenses in Darwin. After the war, he was director of Myer Gallery from 1946-47 and focused on graphic design and painting, particularly still lifes and landscapes. His work was included in several major Australian art surveys and exhibitions. Later in his career, he taught art and managed art galleries while continuing to paint consistently in a semi-abstract style that emphasized geographical contours and pictorial structure with reduced and unmodulated color.