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Adam Emory Albright BIOGRAPHY
1862 Monroe, Wisconsin - 1957 Warrenville, Illinois. Known for: Genre-child, portrait, and still-life painting.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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
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 Paris with Benjamin Constant and also in Munich. He established his studio in Chicago in 1888 and became President of the Chicago... Read full biography
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About Adam Emory Albright
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Born Monroe, WI, Aug. 15, 1862; died Sept. 13, 1957. Painter, spec. children. Graduate of University of Kansas, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1881-83, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1883-1886, in Munich, & Paris from 1887-1888. Began as a landscape painter but later specialized in painting children at play against landscape backgrounds. Beginning about 1917, he did his painting during the winter months in Arizona, Southern California, and South America. Called the "James Whicomb Riley of the Brush" for his depictions of child life. Author of For Art's Sake (1953).Biography from the Archives of askART
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 Paris with Benjamin Constant and also in Munich. He established his studio in Chicago in 1888 and became President of the Chicago Watercolor Club and was a member of the Chicago Academy of Design.
Apparently early in his career, he chose his subject of juvenile subjects for which he became famous, and after the Columbian Exposition when he was exposed to Impressionism, his work became more colorful and sun filled. From 1908, he spent many summers at the art colony of Brown County, Indiana, and from 1917 frequently spent winters in Arizona where he painted desert landscapes and figures. He was a teacher at the Albright Atelier, in Lamar, Missouri and also lived in Winnetka and Warrenville, Illinois.
About him, William Gerdts wrote: "No other Chicago artist's work was so widely exhibited at the Art Institute; . . . A constant flow of articles appeared about the artist and his work, all praising his innate sympathy with childhood and with the rural environment and referring to him as the 'James Whitcomb Riley of the Brush.' " (Art Across America, Vol 2).
Sources include:
The Friedman Collection: Artists of Chicago, Spanierman Gallery LLC
Doris Dawdy, Artists of the American West
Marianne Richter and Wendy Greenhouse, Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection
William Gerdts, Art Across America Vol. 2Biography from the Archives of askART
Born in Monroe, Wisconsin on August 15, 1862, Adam Albright, after studying at the Pennsylvania Academy and the Art Institute of Chicago, spent his remaining career in Illinois. He began as a landscape painter but later specialized in children at play.
He exhibited in the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915 and after 1917 often spent winters in southern California.
He died in Warrenville, Illinois on September 14, 1957.
Association:
Laguna Beach Art Association; Salmagundi Club.
Collections:
Chicago Public Library;
Orange County (CA) Museum;
Toledo, Ohio Museum.Biography from Galleries Maurice Sternberg
Born in Monroe, Wisconsin, Adam Albright was one of the first students at the newly established Art Institute of Chicago. He studied there from 1881 to 1883. Albright also attended Kansas University and some of his early work was likely done in Kansas. He went on to become a noted landscape, still life, and figure painter.
About Albright, William Gerdts wrote, "No other Chicago artist's work was so widely exhibited at the Art Institute; . . . A constant flow of articles appeared about the artist and his work, all praising his innate sympathy with childhood and with the rural environment and referring to him as the 'James Whitcomb Riley of the Brush.' " (Art Across America, Vol 2).Biography from Butler Institute of American Art
Adam Emory Albright (from an exhibition catalog of September of 1920 at the Butler Art Institute):
Adam Emory Albright was born in Madison, Wisconsin August 15, 1862. He studied in the school of the Art Institute, Chicago; at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; in Munich and in Paris.
Member : New York Watercolor Club, American Watercolor Society and Salmagundi Club, New York; Chicago Society of Artists (president 1915); Chcago Watercolor Club (ex-president) ; fellowship Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Alumni Association of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago Academy of Design; American Federation of Arts, Washington, D.C.
Awards: Grower Prize, Art Institute, Chicago, 1907 and 1914; Cahn Prize, Art Institute, Chicago 1908.
Represented in City Art Museum, St. Louis; Museum of Art, Toledo; Public library, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Library, Topeka, Kansas; Municipal Art League, Chicago.Biography from Broward Auction Gallery
Adam Emory Albright (Illinois, California, Wisconsin, 1862 - 1957) 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 Paris with Benjamin Constant and also in Munich. He established his studio in Chicago in 1888 and became President of the Chicago Watercolor Club and was a member of the Chicago Academy of Design.
Apparently early in his career, he chose his subject of juvenile subjects for which he became famous, and after the Columbian Exposition when he was exposed to Impressionism, his work became more colorful and sun filled. From 1908, he spent many summers at the art colony of Brown County, Indiana, and from 1917 frequently spent winters in Arizona where he painted desert landscapes and figures.
He was a teacher at the Albright Atelier, in Lamar, Missouri and also lived in Winnetka and Warrenville, Illinois. About him, William Gerdts wrote: "No other Chicago artist's work was so widely exhibited at the Art Institute; . . . A constant flow of articles appeared about the artist and his work, all praising his innate sympathy with childhood and with the rural environment and referring to him as the 'James Whitcomb Riley of the Brush.' " (Source: Art Across America, Vol 2).