Scope and Content: The Adam Emory Albright Scrapbook was created by Adam Emory Albright, in which he recorded his media presence as an artist. It includes newspaper clippings, images, exhibition programs, pamphlets, catalogues, and correspondence documenting exhibitions, sale of paintings, reviews and critiques of Albright's work, correspondence, interviews with Albright discussing his art and background, Albright's Log House Studio, Albright's commentaries on art, prizes, sculpture, travel, and art organizations. The collection also contains photographs of his children Ivan and Malvin.

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Historical Note:
Adam Emory Albright was born in Monroe, Wisconsin in1862, one of thirteen children. He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (later the Art Institute) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After studying abroad in Munich and Paris, he returned to the United States to marry Clara Wilson, with whom he had three children, including twin boys. The twins, Ivan and Malvin (Zsissly), later surpassed their father's fame as artists. Albright was best known for his portraits of children in natural settings. Based initially in Chicago, and later in Hubbard Woods and Warrenville, Illinois, the Albright family traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Beginning in 1908, Albright took inspiration from summers spent in the Brown County art colony, which provided ample material for his rural scenes. He and his sons Ivan and Malvin set up a studio in an old church building in Warrenville. Albright wrote his autobiography, For Art's Sake, at the age of 90 and died in 1957.

Creator

• Albright, Adam Emory, 1862-1957

Subject

• Artists

• Albright, Adam Emory, 1862-1957

• Painters

• Art

Publisher

• Hanover College

Language

• English

Identifier

• MSS##_FindingAid

Location

• United States, , United States

Keyword

• Finding Aid

• Hanover College, Adam Emory Albright Scrapbook, MSS 16

Date created

• 1880-1914

Resource type

• Book

Source

• 0bc1a20f-0e30-4389-81b0-508c315b772b

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/