Mr. Ernest Albert Sr. This is Me

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1. 1. www.roughtongalleries.com

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   Published on: 6/16/2008   Last Visited: 6/16/2008

   Ernest AlbertRoughton Galleries
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   Ernest Albert was a distinguished theatrical and scenic designer who also became a landscape painter and muralist; Ernest Albert worked in New York, St. Louis, and Chicago.
   
   He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1857, and showing early talent, he received the Graham Art Medal at age 15, while he was studying at the Brooklyn Art Institute.Though Albert had some early success as a newspaper artist, his introduction to the theater world in 1877 began a career in stage design; he worked on productions starring most of the best-known performers of the day.During this time in 1879, he employed and befriended young Jules Guerin, who went on to become the Lincoln Memorial Muralist.
   
   From New York City, Albert went to St. Louis in 1880 and five years later to Chicago.In 1892, he became involved with the World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago.He was responsible for the color schemes and ornamental design of many of the interiors of buildings in that renowned and successful fair.While in Chicago, he helped found the American Society of Scenic Painters.
   
   In 1894, Albert returned to New York City, where, from then on, his work in scenic design was centered.His Albert Studios did the sets for many successful productions.All along, he had painted whenever he could snatch the time.At the pinnacle of his career in 1905, he began to withdraw gradually from his theater work.His family was settled in the striking new house he had built in New Rochelle, New York; his financial independence was established; and from then on, he devoted most of his considerable talent and energy to his landscapes.
   
   Albert's landscapes, painted mostly in Old Lyme, Connecticut and later on Monhegan Island, Maine (as well as a few on the West Coast), are simple in composition but subtle in effect.His impressionistic rendering of color and light imbue his quiet country scenes with all the magic of the moment.The gentle strength of these pictures and of his still lifes ensured their popularity and earned him a place as one of America's respected artists.
   
   Albert was active in several organizations and was a founder and first president of the Allied Artists of America.

2. 2. Daniel Greene at The Brigham Galleries on Nantucket

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   Published on: 2/27/2008   Last Visited: 2/27/2008

   Ernest Albert

3. 3. Wiscasset Bay Gallery: Artist's Biographys

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   Ernest Albert, Sr. Painter Ernest Albert was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1857 and received his artistic training at the Brooklyn Art School where he was awarded the Graham Art Medal in 1872 at the young age of 15. He began his career as a successful scenery painter, earning commissions from theater companies in New York City, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, Montreal, and London among others. Then in 1909 he turned his talents to noncommercial painting full time, receiving widespread acclaim. During his career, Albert was active in numerous artist organizations. He was an Associate Member of the National Academy Design as well as being a life member of the National Arts Club in New York City. He was a founding member of the Allied Artists of America as well as the American Society of Scenic Painters (of which he later served as Vice President), and he was a member of the Salmagundi Club and the American Watercolor Society. He exhibited at such prestigious venues as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Salmagundi Club, the National Academy of Design, the Allied Artists of America, the St. Louis Sketch Club, the Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, and the Grand Rapids Museum in Michigan where he exhibited with Abbott Graves as well as having a solo exhibition at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 1941. In addition, since his death in 1946, the Vose Galleries in Boston have had several solo exhibitions of his work. Albert's paintings are housed in both private and public collections throughout the United States.