American, 1890 - 1985
In completing a biographical questionnaire for the Academy, Mrs. Albee made the following statement about her involvement with art:
My interest in art may be partially due to the interest of both my paternal and maternal grandmothers and my mother . . . all of whom practiced art, although not professionally. My art school training began with the winning of two successive scholarships (from public schools of Providence) for Saturday classes at the Rhode Island School of Design. Later I took the usual four year course in drawing and painting receiving a diploma at that time (1912). During my second year I won the Art Club Scholarship entitling me to free tuition and supplies for the following year. My interest in woodcuts and engravings must have started at a very early age as the coarse, primitive cutting of the books in father's collection disturbed me. Those same books were later the beginning of my interest in Americana and the beginning of my collection of woodcuts and engravings. Early American school books and text-books dating as far back as 1803.
The Albees married in 1913. They had five sons, whom they took them to Paris in March 1928, to take advantage of the educational opportunity. Grace Albee used the opportunity of her residence in Paris to study wood engraving with Paul Bornet.
Mrs. Albee received the following awards in NAD annual exhibitions: Prize for Graphic Art, 1947; Rebecca Freifeld Prize, 1950; American Artists Professional League Award, 1955; National Academy of Design Prize, 1959; and Samuel F. B. Morse medals in 1962 and 1972. Her graphic works are widely held in American public and private collections.
My interest in art may be partially due to the interest of both my paternal and maternal grandmothers and my mother . . . all of whom practiced art, although not professionally. My art school training began with the winning of two successive scholarships (from public schools of Providence) for Saturday classes at the Rhode Island School of Design. Later I took the usual four year course in drawing and painting receiving a diploma at that time (1912). During my second year I won the Art Club Scholarship entitling me to free tuition and supplies for the following year. My interest in woodcuts and engravings must have started at a very early age as the coarse, primitive cutting of the books in father's collection disturbed me. Those same books were later the beginning of my interest in Americana and the beginning of my collection of woodcuts and engravings. Early American school books and text-books dating as far back as 1803.
The Albees married in 1913. They had five sons, whom they took them to Paris in March 1928, to take advantage of the educational opportunity. Grace Albee used the opportunity of her residence in Paris to study wood engraving with Paul Bornet.
Mrs. Albee received the following awards in NAD annual exhibitions: Prize for Graphic Art, 1947; Rebecca Freifeld Prize, 1950; American Artists Professional League Award, 1955; National Academy of Design Prize, 1959; and Samuel F. B. Morse medals in 1962 and 1972. Her graphic works are widely held in American public and private collections.
