Adam Emory Albright ART FOR SALE

1862 Monroe, Wisconsin - 1957 Warrenville, Illinois. Known for: Genre-child, portrait, and still-life painting.

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Born in Monroe, Wisconsin, Adam Albright was one of the first students at the newly established Art Institute of Chicago from 1881 to 1883 and went on to become a noted landscape, still life, and figure painter, especially of country children. Likely some of his earliest work was done in Kansas because he was a graduate of Kansas University. His style was Impressionism mixed with Realism, and strongly opposing the Modernism of the early 20th century, he said: "They give you boiled squash with a mule's foot on it and call that art." (Richter 24). At the Chicago Art Institute, he was a student of Henry Fenton Spread and John Vanderpoel. He also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1883 to 1886 with Thomas Eakins, and in... Read full biography

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Type:Painting

Year:1884

Size:30.00" x 40.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Signed and Dated

Notes:

Several small areas of inpainting mostly around the top and edges, visible under black light only. Several small areas of paint loss in upper center. Stable craquelure throughout. Varnish is congeled. The painting has been lined, approx. 30 years ago. Custom frame size is 38 1/2in by 48in.

Price: $19,000. Please contact Stuart Kingston Galleries