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Dewey (Ernest Dewey) Albinson

Dewey (Ernest Dewey) Albinson (1898 - 1971) was active/lived in Minnesota / Mexico.  Dewey Albinson is known for Landscape, genre-frontier, mural.

The following is submitted by Paul Petosky, Researcher of Post Office murals in Michigan: He writes:

I am copying this word-for-word as this is framed in the lobby of the Marquette, MI Post Office, which was dedicated on April 10,1937.

"MARQUETTE EXPLORING SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR" BY DEWEY ALBINSON
United States Post Office Marquette, Michigan

This mural (oil on canvas) was executed by Dewey Albinson under the program of the Section of Fine Arts, Federal Works Agency, Public Buildings Administration which decorates federal buildings with murals and sculpture. Mr. Albinson received this commission as a result of competent designs submitted in a Section of Fine Arts open anonymous competition.

Description of Mural

The artist has shown a typical scene during Marquette's travels in the Lake Superior country in the 17th century (1669-1675). The subject of Father Marquette was selected for the mural because the City and County of Marquette wer   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3923 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Dewey (Ernest Dewey) Albinson

   Dewey (Ernest Dewey) Albinson  Born:  1898 - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Died:   1971 - Mayarit, Mexico
Known for:  Landscape, genre-frontier, mural
Name variants:  Ernest Dewey Albinson

Biography from the Archives of askART

The following is submitted by Paul Petosky, Researcher of Post Office murals in Michigan: He writes:

I am copying this word-for-word as this is framed in the lobby of the Marquette, MI Post Office, which was dedicated on April 10,1937.

"MARQUETTE EXPLORING SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR" BY DEWEY ALBINSON
United States Post Office Marquette, Michigan

This mural (oil on canvas) was executed by Dewey Albinson under the program of the Section of Fine Arts, Federal Works Agency, Public Buildings Administration which decorates federal buildings with murals and sculpture. Mr. Albinson received this commission as a result of competent designs submitted in a Section of Fine Arts open anonymous competition.

Description of Mural

The artist has shown a typical scene during Marquette's travels in the Lake Superior country in the 17th century (1669-1675). The subject of Father Marquette was selected for the mural because the City and County of Marquette were named for him. In the mural Father Marquette is depicted on one of his canoe trips with voyageurs or canoe men to assist him. These men were famous for their courage and for the hardships they could face in the s-evere Northern climate. They wore vivid red caps, deer skin leggings and bright colored sashes. Also shown are two Indians who served as guides and companions. The warm tones of the birch bark canoe and the figures contrast with the deep blue color of the lake and a crisp, cool sky.

Note on Artist

Dewey Albinson was born in Minneapolis, Minneapolis March 9, 1898. He began painting at the age of 15, and studied at the Minneapolis School of Art, the Art Students' League of New York to which he had a scholarship, in Paris and Italy. He has received many awards, and has exhibited widely in this country and abroad. Mr. Albinson has executed a mural for the Cloquet Minnesota Post Office under the program of the Section of Fine Arts.


Biography from Kramer Gallery, Inc.

Dewey Albinson brought an expressionist approach of bold brushstrokes and strong colors to upper Midwestern subjects like farmsteads, towns and cities, Native American life, and the North Shore region of Lake Superior. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art (today the Minneapolis College of Art and Design), the Art Students League in New York City, and in France and Italy.

Following several years painting in France and Italy, Albinson directed the St. Paul School of Art back in Minnesota. During the Depression he painted Minneapolis and University of Minnesota scenes for the Public Works of Art Project; painted for, and directed the Education Division of, the WPA Federal Art Project in Minnesota; and painted murals for the post offices of Cloquet, Minnesota and Marquette, Michigan.

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.

Citations
Mary Towley Swanson: "Dewey Albinson: The Artist as Chronicler" (MINNESOTA HISTORY magazine, Fall 1991)
Nancy A. Johnson: ACCOMPLISHMENTS: MINNESOTA ART PROJECTS OF THE DEPRESSION YEARS (1976)
O'Connor, William Van (ed.): A HISTORY OF THE ARTS IN MINNESOTA (1958)
University of Minnesota Art Museum: AMERICAN PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE IN THE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM (1986)


Biography from The American Swedish Institute

A resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and then New Jersey in the 1940s and 50s and Mexico from 1952, Dewey Albinson was a regionalist landscape painter, much influenced by the cubists, especially Andre L'Hote. 

In Minnesota, his favorite places to depict were Taylor Falls in the St. Croix area and the North Shore near Grand Portage. In 1935, he was State Director of the WPA.

He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art, the Art Students League in New York, and in Paris and Italy.


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