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1893 Ayshire, Iowa - 1966 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Mural painting-agriculture and hispanic subjects, lithography.
Born in Ayrshire, Iowa on Jan. 20, 1893, Maxine Albro, when quite young, moved with her family to Los Angeles where she grew up and graduated from high school in 1920. Moving to San Francisco at that... Read full biography
Born in Ayrshire, Iowa on Jan. 20, 1893, Maxine Albro, when quite young, moved with her family to Los Angeles where she grew up and graduated from high school in 1920. Moving to San Francisco at that time, she worked as a commercial artist in order to fund one year of art study at the Art Students... Read full biography
Born in Ayrshire, Iowa on Jan. 20, 1893, Maxine Albro, when quite young, moved with her family to Los Angeles where she grew up and graduated from high school in 1920. Moving to San Francisco at that time, she worked as a commercial artist in order to fund one year of art study at the Art Students League in NYC and in Paris at Ecole de la Grande Chaumière. Upon returning to San Francisco, she then attended the California School of Fine Art during 1923-25. In the 1930s she worked for the Federal... Read full biography
Born in Ayrshire, Iowa on Jan. 20, 1893, Maxine Albro, when quite young, moved with her family to Los Angeles where she grew up and graduated from high school in 1920. Moving to San Francisco at that time, she worked as a commercial artist in order to fund one year of art study at the Art Students League in NYC and in Paris at Ecole de la Grande Chaumière. Upon returning to San Francisco, she then attended the California School of Fine Art during 1923-25. In the 1930s she worked for the Federal Public Works of Art Project. On one of her many trips to Mexico she studied mural painting with Diego Rivera. After marrying sculptor Parker Hall in 1938, she settled in Carmel on the Monterey Peninsula. Although she specialized in Spanish and... Read full biography
Born in Ayrshire, Iowa on Jan. 20, 1893, Maxine Albro, when quite young, moved with her family to Los Angeles where she grew up and graduated from high school in 1920. Moving to San Francisco at that time, she worked as a commercial artist in order to fund one year of art study at the Art Students League in NYC and in Paris at Ecole de la Grande Chaumière. Upon returning to San Francisco, she then attended the California School of Fine Art during 1923-25. In the 1930s she worked for the Federal Public Works of Art Project. On one of her many trips to Mexico she studied mural painting with Diego Rivera. After marrying sculptor Parker Hall in 1938, she settled in Carmel on the Monterey Peninsula. Although she specialized in Spanish and Mexican motifs, her work also includes landscapes and street scenes gleaned from her world travels. Source: Edan Hughes, author of the book "Artists in... Read full biography
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Keywords (41)
Art Method
- •Advertising Art
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Lithography, Lithograph
- •Oil Paint
Art Subject
- •Children, Child Figure, Genre, Portrait
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •Monterey, Carmel California
Art Association
- •California Art Club-
- •Carmel Art Association
- •San Francisco Art Association-
Art Teacher
- •Diego Rivera
Art School
- •Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •California School of Design, Mark Hopkins Institute, Student
- •California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Coit Tower Muralist, San Francisco
- •Commercial Art and Design
- •Figure Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
- •Wikipedia Category of Top American Women Painters
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939, 1940
Exhibition of Art Association
- •California Art Club
- •Carmel Art Association-
- •San Francisco Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition of Special Group
- •Ebell Art Club
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts