Gallery 5004 featured artist of the week: DEWEY ALBINSON (1898-1971) The son of Swedish immigrants, Dewey Albinson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 9, 1898. He began painting at the age of fifteen and studied at the Minneapolis School of Art (now the Minneapolis College of Art and Design). After graduating in 1919 he studied at the Art Students League in New York, and also traveled to France and Italy to study and paint. Albinson however, seemed to favor Minnesota in his works, as he is most noted for his scenes of the Iron Range and the North Shore of Lake Superior. He once wrote, “the Catskills are beautiful…but I found the rugged peace and solitude of the Minnesota hills to be more charming.” Albinson was also involved in the arts of Minnesota. He was Director of the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) from 1926-29 and a member of the Public Works of Art Project in 1933. He was state director of the Educational Division for the Works Progress Administration Art Center from 1935-1937, and painted murals for the post offices of Cloquet, Minnesota and Marquette, Michigan. After the WPA, he became president of the Minnesota Artists Association from 1937-1939 and from 1941 to 1942. Albinson spent his final years in Mexico, where he painted a series of canvases based on Miguel Cervantes’s story of Don Quixote. Albinson’s typescript memoirs are in the Minnesota Historical Society library. Galley 5004 is pleased to have the following Albinson works available for purchase ...
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:44:36 +0000
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