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for Ernest Albert
American, 1857 - 1946
Painter and scenic designer, Albert legally changed his name in 1882. In 1872, while studying art at the Brooklyn Institute School of Design, Albert began freelancing as a newspaper illustrator. He first painted scenery for Harley Merry productions at the Park and Union Square theaters in New York in 1877. By 1880, Albert was working as a scenic artist and art director for St. Louis's Pope theater, later forming the scenic art firm of Noxon, Alber and Toomey which had studios in St. Louis, Chicago and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Albert worked at the New Chicago Opera House for five years beginning in 1885, serving as president of the Chicago Society of Artists. From 1892-1893, he helped design decorative schemes for several buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago.
Early in 1892, [Oliver D. Grover] joined Ernest Albert and Walter Burridge in a business organization for painting of theater sets "Albert, Grover & Burridge, Scenic and Decorative Painters, Studio Building, State Street, Chicago" despite high promise and hyperbole of promotional material went bankrupt within two years
After his return to New York the next year, he opened the Albert Studios, which specialized in stage and scenic designs. Albert was so successful that there were eight Broadway productions running simultaneously for which he had designed and painted the entire sets.
Albert became associated with the artist's colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut after he began summering there after he moved to New Rochelle, New York, in 1896. He gradually devoted himself to painting after 1909. In 1915, he worked for the World's Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Albert specialized in autumn and winter landscapes, although in his later life he favored still life subjects.
A founder and the first president of the Allied Artists of America, Albert was also a member of the American Water Color Society, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and the Lyme Art Association. He was married twice, in 1881 to Annie Maxwell, and in 1927 to Lissa Bell Walker. He died in New Canaan, Connecticut, at the home of his daughter.
Albert worked at the New Chicago Opera House for five years beginning in 1885, serving as president of the Chicago Society of Artists. From 1892-1893, he helped design decorative schemes for several buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago.
Early in 1892, [Oliver D. Grover] joined Ernest Albert and Walter Burridge in a business organization for painting of theater sets "Albert, Grover & Burridge, Scenic and Decorative Painters, Studio Building, State Street, Chicago" despite high promise and hyperbole of promotional material went bankrupt within two years
After his return to New York the next year, he opened the Albert Studios, which specialized in stage and scenic designs. Albert was so successful that there were eight Broadway productions running simultaneously for which he had designed and painted the entire sets.
Albert became associated with the artist's colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut after he began summering there after he moved to New Rochelle, New York, in 1896. He gradually devoted himself to painting after 1909. In 1915, he worked for the World's Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Albert specialized in autumn and winter landscapes, although in his later life he favored still life subjects.
A founder and the first president of the Allied Artists of America, Albert was also a member of the American Water Color Society, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and the Lyme Art Association. He was married twice, in 1881 to Annie Maxwell, and in 1927 to Lissa Bell Walker. He died in New Canaan, Connecticut, at the home of his daughter.
