Grace Arnold Albee

Background

Albee, Grace Arnold was born on July 28, 1890 in Scituate, Rhode Island, United States.

Education

She studied painting and drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design, and married muralist Percy F. Albee in 1913.

Career

During her sixty-year working life, she created more than two hundred and fifty prints from linocuts, woodcuts, and wood engravings. In Paris, Albee developed a passion for depicting her urban and natural environments. Her work was received well.

Albee exhibited at several Paris Salons and had her first one-woman exhibition at the American Library in Paris in 1932.

The Albees returned to the United States in the 1933 and lived in New York City and Grace produced prints of the city. In 1937, they moved to Doylestown, Pennsylvania and her prints switched to rural subjects.

The images of rural life that she produced while lived in Pennsylvania are probably her best known works. Albee was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member in 1942, and made a full member in 1946.

The Albees lived in Pennsylvania until 1962 after which they lived in Kew Gardens, New York (1962–1974) and then in Barrington, Rhode Island (1974–1985).

Albee works are represented in a number of public collections in the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New New York The Library of Congress has 23 of her prints in its collection.

Achievements

• Grace Arnold Albee has been listed as a notable Artist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Ville de la Colistat, Cannes Harbor

  • Cyclamen

  • Plomarch, Brittany

  • In the Beginning

  • Deep Shadows

  • Rose

  • Douarnenez

  • Fountain - Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris

  • L’Escarène, Southern France

  • Road to Quimper

  • African Violet

  • Breton Ruins

  • Chimney Pots (Brittany)

  • Villefranche sur Mer

  • Manhattan Backwash

  • Oxen Returning

  • Willows at Straitsmouth

  • 7 rue Campagne-Première, Paris Court

  • Goldfish

  • Dinan

  • Breton Types

  • On the Canal “Lac d’Annecy”

  • Antibes, Southern France

  • Guardian of the Border

  • Pont Marie

  • Pottery

  • Americana

  • The Boyer Place

  • Entangled Tractor

  • The Storm - Old Chelsea District, N.Y.

  • On the Beach

  • Oil Tanks - Gates Oo The Old New York Yacht Club, Newport, R.I.

  • A Peaceful Afternoon

Membership

Fellow American Artists Professional League (chairman jury selection and awards, 1968, prizes 1965, Gold medal for wood engraving 1961, first prize in graphics 1974). Member National Academy of Design (chairman graphic art membership committee from 1953, member jury 1974, print prize 1959, prizes 1959, 62, Samuel Finley Breeze Memorial award 1962, 72), Connecticut Academy, Providence Water Color Club (life, Oake-on-the-Hill prize 1964), Albany Print Club(Bowen purchase award 1967, Purchase award 1976), Providence Art Club (medal and citation contribution visual arts, paiting and wood engraving 1965), Boston Printmakers, Academy Artists Association (Helen Gould Kennedy award 1968), Metropolitan Museum New York (life).

• National Academy of Design , United States

  1941

Connections

Married Percy F. Albee, May 10, 1913 (deceased 1959). Children: Edward F. II, John F., Nathaniel E., William C., Percy F. Junior.

Spouse:

Percy F. Albee

child:

Edward F. II Albee

child:

William C. Albee

child:

Nathaniel E. Albee

child:

Percy F. Junior Albee

child:

John F. Albee

References

• Grace Albee: an American Printmaker, 1890-1985