Rex moved from Ohio to North Carolina with his father around 1910. His father ran a hotel and Rex worked in a lumber yard store as a clerk. He met his wife, Jean Innes, in Wilmington. The couple started a family in North Carolina. By 1930 Rex was living on Ellwood Avenue in Richmond with his father and two sons, working as an artist. He was hired by the Virginia Department of Conservation to take photographs and maintain highway markers. He was a field assistant in the publishing of a historical Highway Marker booklet. He traveled throughout the State, installing markers and attending events. In his travels, he took hundreds of photographs of historic structures. His photographs became the source of commissioned pen-and-ink drawings for a publication of Virginia Shrines. Allyn was one of five artists that made the drawings. In 1945 he was promoted to Historian VII, and given the project of documenting and maintaining the tombstones of famous Virginians. He and his family lived in an apartment on East Franklin Street in Richmond while he was employed by the State. He supplemented his income by doing landscape and portrait art, as well as making furniture. He retired to his home in the country, where he spent the rest of his life.
Rex moved from Ohio to North Carolina with his father around 1910. His father ran a hotel and Rex worked in a lumber yard store as a clerk. He met his wife, Jean Innes, in Wilmington. The couple started a family in North Carolina. By 1930 Rex was living on Ellwood Avenue in Richmond with his father and two sons, working as an artist. He was hired by the Virginia Department of Conservation to take photographs and maintain highway markers. He was a field assistant in the publishing of a historical Highway Marker booklet. He traveled throughout the State, installing markers and attending events. In his travels, he took hundreds of photographs of historic structures. His photographs became the source of commissioned pen-and-ink drawings for a publication of Virginia Shrines. Allyn was one of five artists that made the drawings. In 1945 he was promoted to Historian VII, and given the project of documenting and maintaining the tombstones of famous Virginians. He and his family lived in an apartment on East Franklin Street in Richmond while he was employed by the State. He supplemented his income by doing landscape and portrait art, as well as making furniture. He retired to his home in the country, where he spent the rest of his life.
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