Albert Henry Krehbiel
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Albert Henry Krehbiel was an American
artist who was born in Denmark, Iowa
and who taught, lived and worked for many years in Chicago. Although educated as a realist
in Paris, which is reflected in his neoclassical
mural
works, soon developed a strong appreciation for impressionism
and is mainly known as an American impressionist
. Later in his career, Krehbiel began experimenting in a more modernist
manner (a style that became known as "synchromism
").
, in 1873, Albert Henry Krehbiel was a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago
, where, in 1902, he was granted an American Traveling Scholarship to study abroad. In 1903, he began his three years of study at the Académie Julian
in Paris under history painter
and muralist Jean-Paul Laurens
.; Krehbiel won four gold medals at the Académie Julian (the only American ever to have done so) as well as the coveted Prix de Rome
. In 1905, he received the esteemed honor of having two of his neoclassical works selected by jury for the annual exhibition organized by the Société des Artistes Français
in Paris (also known as the Paris Salon
).
Returning to the United States, Krehbiel was commissioned to design and paint the mural for the wall of the Chicago Juvenile Court in 1906 . In 1907, he was unanimously awarded the commission in a national competition to design and paint the eleven wall and two ceiling murals for the Supreme and Appellate Court Rooms of the Illinois Supreme Court Building in Springfield
, the state's capital. Begun in 1907, the final Supreme Court Building mural was completed and installed in 1911.. Mr. W. Carby Zimmerman, architect of the building, considered the work done by Krehbiel to be "an example of the best mural painting ever executed in the West."
In 1918 and 1919, Krehbiel spent his summers at art colonies
in Santa Monica, California
, and in Santa Fe, New Mexico
.. From 1920 through 1923, he spent summers exclusively in Santa Fe as an exhibiting member of the Santa Fe Art Colony. In the summers of 1922 and 1923, Krehbiel was invited by the Museum of New Mexico
in Santa Fe to participate in its Visiting Artists Program and was given a studio in the prestigious Palace of the Governors
next to his contemporary, Ashcan
realist
Robert Henri
.
Krehbiel had associations and exhibitions with the other artists of the Santa Fe Art Colony—and the Taos Society of Artists
-- such as George Bellows
and Gustave Baumann
(exhibition in McPherson, Kansas
, 1918), and Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
, Marsden Hartley
, and Sheldon Parsons (exhibition in El Paso, Texas
, 1920). Other notable artists that Krehbiel exhibited with during this period include William Victor Higgins
, Ernest L. Blumenschein
, John French Sloan
, Raymond Johnson
, and Stuart Davis
..
Krehbiel was a member of the faculty at The Art Institute of Chicago for 39 years and at the Armour Institute of Technology (later Illinois Institute of Technology
after merging with the Lewis Institute) for 32 years. In 1926, he helped pioneer the Chicago Art Institute Summer School of Painting (later named Ox-Bow) in Saugatuck, Michigan
, where he spent most of his remaining summers teaching and painting. In 1934, Krehbiel opened his own summer school of art in Saugatuck called the AK Studio When able to break away from his students, he would capture the surrounding rolling hills and the Kalamazoo River
in oil, watercolor, and pastel. He would often visit Saugatuck in winters to portray the area in its vast and billowing cover of snow.
When teaching at the Art Institute of Chicago and residing (at the Cliff Dwellers) in downtown Chicago, Krehbiel turned to recreating the urban landscapes, most of them within walking distance to his classrooms. These familiar scenes were painted between classes from the banks of the Chicago River. Most were painted during rush hour when automobiles and pedestrians populated the bridges and streets. He painted the Michigan Avenue Bridge and the Chicago River numerous times, each from a different perspective. Most of the images of the bridge were executed in 1920, the year of its grand opening, with the bridge towers draped in banners of red, white, and blue ribbons.
Beginning in around 1926 and continuing through the early 1940s, Krehbiel created a series of synchromistic figure compositions in watercolor and in oil on small, unstretched pieces of canvas and, in the latter years, in pastel and in oil on larger canvases as well. The figures in this series reproduce the postures of models in his art classes and, while naturalistic at first, they gradually become geometric, even somewhat cubist. Krehbiel developed this new style into a method of teaching figure depiction by having students compose while drawing. Sketches of a three-figure model group, observed from various points in the room, would be rendered on a single sheet of paper - or a series of quick poses by one model would be composed on a single sheet. He also produced a large number of landscapes in this synchromistic and relatively abstract style beginning in 1926. Created mainly in Saugatuck, most of these works were done in pastel on paper.
, while preparing for a traveling and painting trip through Illinois and Kansas. His death occurred a few days after his retirement from teaching at the Illinois Institute of Technology, although he had agreed to stay on at The Art Institute of Chicago for one more year.
, Paris, France, 1905; Had two of his neoclassical works selected by jury for exhibition at the Salon Des Artistes Francais (also known as the Paris Salon), Paris, 1905; Awarded the Prix de Rome
for painting, Paris, 1906; Won four Gold Medals for painting (the most ever awarded to an American) and five cash prizes for drawing and composition, Académie Julian, Paris, 1904–1906; Unanimously awarded by jury the commission to design and paint the eleven wall and two ceiling murals for the Illinois Supreme and Appellate Court Rooms, Springfield, Illinois, 1906; William Ormond Thompson Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago, for The Snow Covered Road, Illinois landscape, 1919; Martin B. Cahn Prize, Painting by a Chicago Artist, The Art Institute of Chicago, for Wet Snow in the Woods, Illinois landscape, 1922; Clyde Carr Prize for Landscape, American Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago; American Artists Exhibit of Landscapes Award, The Art Institute of Chicago; Municipal Art League Prize for Landscape, Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago. In February of 2008, Albert Krehbiel was named the Illinois State Historical Artist for the thirteen murals that he painted for the ceilings and walls of the Illinois Supreme Court Building in Springfield, Illinois.
Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
M. H. De Young Museum, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
at Northwestern University
in Evanston, Illinois, The Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa, The John Vanderpoel
Art Association, Chicago, Illinois and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company in Fort Worth, Texas. Albert Henry Krehbiel currently has 168 works listed in the Smithsonian Institution
Inventories of American Paintings and Sculpture in Washington, D.C., and selected archival material on Krehbiel's career is available at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C., as well as at The Art Institute of Chicago's Ryerson & Burnham
Libraries and at fine arts libraries throughout the country.
The letters and writings of Albert Henry Krehbiel held in the archives of the Krehbiel Corporation, Evanston, Illinois. These letters and writings as well as further archival material on Albert Krehbiel are available on microfilm at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art in Washington, DC, as well as at the Art Institute of Chicago's Ryerson and Burnham Libraries.
United States
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artist who was born in Denmark, Iowa
Denmark, Iowa
Denmark is an unincorporated community in northeastern Lee County, Iowa, United States. It lies along Iowa Highway 16 north of the city of Fort Madison, the county seat of Lee County. Its elevation is 722 feet . Although Denmark is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of...
and who taught, lived and worked for many years in Chicago. Although educated as a realist
Realism (visual arts)
Realism in the visual arts is a style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see. The term is used in different senses in art history; it may mean the same as illusionism, the representation of subjects with visual mimesis or verisimilitude, or may mean an emphasis on the actuality of...
in Paris, which is reflected in his neoclassical
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome...
mural
Mural
A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. A particularly distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.-History:Murals of...
works, soon developed a strong appreciation for impressionism
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
and is mainly known as an American impressionist
American Impressionism
Impressionism, a style of painting characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors, was practiced widely among American artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.-An emerging artistic style from Paris:...
. Later in his career, Krehbiel began experimenting in a more modernist
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
manner (a style that became known as "synchromism
Synchromism
Synchromism was an art movement founded in 1912 by American artists Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Morgan Russell. Their abstract "synchromies", based on a theory of color that analogized it to music, were among the first abstract paintings in American art...
").
Life and career
Born in Denmark, IowaDenmark, Iowa
Denmark is an unincorporated community in northeastern Lee County, Iowa, United States. It lies along Iowa Highway 16 north of the city of Fort Madison, the county seat of Lee County. Its elevation is 722 feet . Although Denmark is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of...
, in 1873, Albert Henry Krehbiel was a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
, where, in 1902, he was granted an American Traveling Scholarship to study abroad. In 1903, he began his three years of study at the Académie Julian
Académie Julian
The Académie Julian was an art school in Paris, France.Rodolphe Julian established the Académie Julian in 1868 at the Passage des Panoramas, as a private studio school for art students. The Académie Julian not only prepared students to the exams at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, but offered...
in Paris under history painter
History painting
History painting is a genre in painting defined by subject matter rather than an artistic style, depicting a moment in a narrative story, rather than a static subject such as a portrait...
and muralist Jean-Paul Laurens
Jean-Paul Laurens
Jean-Paul Laurens , was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style.Born in Fourquevaux, he was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida...
.; Krehbiel won four gold medals at the Académie Julian (the only American ever to have done so) as well as the coveted Prix de Rome
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
. In 1905, he received the esteemed honor of having two of his neoclassical works selected by jury for the annual exhibition organized by the Société des Artistes Français
Société des artistes français
The Société des Artistes Français is the association of French painters and sculptors established in 1881. Its annual exhibition is called the Salon....
in Paris (also known as the Paris Salon
Paris Salon
The Salon , or rarely Paris Salon , beginning in 1725 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Between 1748–1890 it was the greatest annual or biannual art event in the Western world...
).
Returning to the United States, Krehbiel was commissioned to design and paint the mural for the wall of the Chicago Juvenile Court in 1906 . In 1907, he was unanimously awarded the commission in a national competition to design and paint the eleven wall and two ceiling murals for the Supreme and Appellate Court Rooms of the Illinois Supreme Court Building in Springfield
Springfield, Illinois
Springfield is the third and current capital of the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 117,400 , making it the sixth most populated city in the state and the second most populated Illinois city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area...
, the state's capital. Begun in 1907, the final Supreme Court Building mural was completed and installed in 1911.. Mr. W. Carby Zimmerman, architect of the building, considered the work done by Krehbiel to be "an example of the best mural painting ever executed in the West."
In 1918 and 1919, Krehbiel spent his summers at art colonies
Art colony
right|300px|thumb|Artist houses in [[Montsalvat]] near [[Melbourne, Australia]].An art colony or artists' colony is a place where creative practitioners live and interact with one another. Artists are often invited or selected through a formal process, for a residency from a few weeks to over a year...
in Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...
, and in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...
.. From 1920 through 1923, he spent summers exclusively in Santa Fe as an exhibiting member of the Santa Fe Art Colony. In the summers of 1922 and 1923, Krehbiel was invited by the Museum of New Mexico
Museum of New Mexico
The Museum of New Mexico consists of six separate institutions in Santa Fe, New Mexico, including :* New Mexico Museum of Art* Palace of the Governors* Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology* Museum of International Folk Art...
in Santa Fe to participate in its Visiting Artists Program and was given a studio in the prestigious Palace of the Governors
Palace of the Governors
The Palace of the Governors is an adobe structure located on Palace Avenue on the Plaza of Santa Fe, New Mexico between Palace Avenue and Washington Street. It is within the Santa Fe Historic District and it served as the seat of government for the State of New Mexico for centuries...
next to his contemporary, Ashcan
Ashcan School
The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, is defined as a realist artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the early twentieth century, best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods. The movement grew out of a group...
realist
Realism (visual arts)
Realism in the visual arts is a style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see. The term is used in different senses in art history; it may mean the same as illusionism, the representation of subjects with visual mimesis or verisimilitude, or may mean an emphasis on the actuality of...
Robert Henri
Robert Henri
Robert Henri was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art.- Early life :...
.
Krehbiel had associations and exhibitions with the other artists of the Santa Fe Art Colony—and the Taos Society of Artists
Taos Society of Artists
The Taos Society of Artists was an organization of visual arts founded in Taos, New Mexico in 1915; it disbanded in 1927. The Society was essentially a commercial cooperative, as opposed to a stylistic collective, and its foundation contributed to the development of the tiny Taos art colony into...
-- such as George Bellows
George Bellows
George Wesley Bellows was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City, becoming, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the most acclaimed American artist of his generation".-Youth:Bellows was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio...
and Gustave Baumann
Gustave Baumann
Gustave Baumann was a printmaker and painter, and one of the leading figures of the color woodcut revival in America. His works have been shown at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and the New Mexico Museum of Art...
(exhibition in McPherson, Kansas
McPherson, Kansas
McPherson is a city in and the county seat of McPherson County, Kansas, United States, in the central part of the state. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 13,155. The city is named after Union General James Birdseye McPherson, a Civil War general...
, 1918), and Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt was a Swedish-American artist who painted seascapes and depictions of New Mexico's indigenous culture.-Background:...
, Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist.-Early life and education:Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine, where his English parents had settled. He was the youngest of nine children. His mother died when he was eight, and his father remarried four years later to Martha...
, and Sheldon Parsons (exhibition in El Paso, Texas
El Paso, Texas
El Paso, is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, and lies in far West Texas. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 649,121. It is the sixth largest city in Texas and the 19th largest city in the United States...
, 1920). Other notable artists that Krehbiel exhibited with during this period include William Victor Higgins
William Victor Higgins
William Victor Higgins was an American painter and teacher, born at Shelbyville, Indiana. He studied at the Art Institute in Chicago and at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In Paris he was a pupil of Robert Henri, René Menard and Lucien Simon, and when he was in Munich he studied with Hans von...
, Ernest L. Blumenschein
Ernest L. Blumenschein
Ernest Leonard Blumenschein was an American artist andfounding member of the Taos Society of Artists. He is noted for paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico and the American Southwest.-Early life and education:...
, John French Sloan
John French Sloan
John French Sloan was an American artist. As a member of The Eight, he became a leading figure in the Ashcan School of realist artists. He was known for his urban genre painting and ability to capture the essence of neighborhood life in New York City, often through his window...
, Raymond Johnson
Raymond Johnson
Raymond Johnson was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.-Biography:Johnson was born on August 20, 1936. He would graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and George Washington University and serve in the United States Navy....
, and Stuart Davis
Stuart Davis (painter)
Stuart Davis , was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz influenced, proto pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful as well as his ashcan pictures in the early years of the 20th century.-Biography:He was born in Philadelphia to Edward Wyatt...
..
Krehbiel was a member of the faculty at The Art Institute of Chicago for 39 years and at the Armour Institute of Technology (later Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting university located in Chicago, Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design, and law...
after merging with the Lewis Institute) for 32 years. In 1926, he helped pioneer the Chicago Art Institute Summer School of Painting (later named Ox-Bow) in Saugatuck, Michigan
Saugatuck, Michigan
Saugatuck is a city in Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 925 at the 2010 census. The city is within Saugatuck Township, but is administratively autonomous....
, where he spent most of his remaining summers teaching and painting. In 1934, Krehbiel opened his own summer school of art in Saugatuck called the AK Studio When able to break away from his students, he would capture the surrounding rolling hills and the Kalamazoo River
Kalamazoo River
The Kalamazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Michigan. The river is long from the junction of its North and South branches to its mouth at Lake Michigan, with a total length extending to when one includes the South Branch...
in oil, watercolor, and pastel. He would often visit Saugatuck in winters to portray the area in its vast and billowing cover of snow.
Painting outdoors
During the years of 1912 through about 1930, Krehbiel was known to leave his Park Ridge, Illinois, home on a freezing cold morning and not return until the end of the day with two or three freshly painted canvases of the surrounding landscape. He also composed many watercolors and countless pastels of the area, often capturing the local inhabitants in the warmer months working in the fields or taking a moment to enjoy the lush forest landscape populated with brooks and streams. Occasionally, Krehbiel would visit the northern Illinois town of Galena on weekends and holidays to paint large canvases of the tree-covered hills with their scattering of homes and barns.When teaching at the Art Institute of Chicago and residing (at the Cliff Dwellers) in downtown Chicago, Krehbiel turned to recreating the urban landscapes, most of them within walking distance to his classrooms. These familiar scenes were painted between classes from the banks of the Chicago River. Most were painted during rush hour when automobiles and pedestrians populated the bridges and streets. He painted the Michigan Avenue Bridge and the Chicago River numerous times, each from a different perspective. Most of the images of the bridge were executed in 1920, the year of its grand opening, with the bridge towers draped in banners of red, white, and blue ribbons.
Beginning in around 1926 and continuing through the early 1940s, Krehbiel created a series of synchromistic figure compositions in watercolor and in oil on small, unstretched pieces of canvas and, in the latter years, in pastel and in oil on larger canvases as well. The figures in this series reproduce the postures of models in his art classes and, while naturalistic at first, they gradually become geometric, even somewhat cubist. Krehbiel developed this new style into a method of teaching figure depiction by having students compose while drawing. Sketches of a three-figure model group, observed from various points in the room, would be rendered on a single sheet of paper - or a series of quick poses by one model would be composed on a single sheet. He also produced a large number of landscapes in this synchromistic and relatively abstract style beginning in 1926. Created mainly in Saugatuck, most of these works were done in pastel on paper.
Death
Throughout the years, Krehbiel painted continuously. From his sketches and paintings done while studying in Paris and his neoclassical murals to his impressionistic Southwest works, Chicago street and river scenes and wooded presentations of the rural Midwest to his synchromistic figure compositions and landscapes, he painted incessantly and in all seasons without regard for the elements. Albert Henry Krehbiel died from a heart attack on June 29, 1945 in Evanston, IllinoisEvanston, Illinois
Evanston is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, bordering Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003. It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan...
, while preparing for a traveling and painting trip through Illinois and Kansas. His death occurred a few days after his retirement from teaching at the Illinois Institute of Technology, although he had agreed to stay on at The Art Institute of Chicago for one more year.
Awards
Krehbiel was awarded an American Traveling Scholarship to study abroad by The Art Institute of Chicago in 1902; Awarded the permanent placement of a painting on the wall of Académie JulianAcadémie Julian
The Académie Julian was an art school in Paris, France.Rodolphe Julian established the Académie Julian in 1868 at the Passage des Panoramas, as a private studio school for art students. The Académie Julian not only prepared students to the exams at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, but offered...
, Paris, France, 1905; Had two of his neoclassical works selected by jury for exhibition at the Salon Des Artistes Francais (also known as the Paris Salon), Paris, 1905; Awarded the Prix de Rome
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
for painting, Paris, 1906; Won four Gold Medals for painting (the most ever awarded to an American) and five cash prizes for drawing and composition, Académie Julian, Paris, 1904–1906; Unanimously awarded by jury the commission to design and paint the eleven wall and two ceiling murals for the Illinois Supreme and Appellate Court Rooms, Springfield, Illinois, 1906; William Ormond Thompson Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago, for The Snow Covered Road, Illinois landscape, 1919; Martin B. Cahn Prize, Painting by a Chicago Artist, The Art Institute of Chicago, for Wet Snow in the Woods, Illinois landscape, 1922; Clyde Carr Prize for Landscape, American Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago; American Artists Exhibit of Landscapes Award, The Art Institute of Chicago; Municipal Art League Prize for Landscape, Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago. In February of 2008, Albert Krehbiel was named the Illinois State Historical Artist for the thirteen murals that he painted for the ceilings and walls of the Illinois Supreme Court Building in Springfield, Illinois.
Exhibitions
During his prolific career, Albert Henry Krehbiel's works were shown in a multitude of exhibitions. Some of Krehbiel's career resume of prominent exhibitions includes the following :- Salon des Artistes Français, Paris, France (1905)
- The American Art Association in Paris, France (1905)
- Société des Artistes FrançaisSociété des artistes françaisThe Société des Artistes Français is the association of French painters and sculptors established in 1881. Its annual exhibition is called the Salon....
, Paris, (1905) - Nine paintings at Académie Julian, Paris France (1903–1906)
- Two paintings in the Louvre, Paris, France (ca. 1905)
- Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, Kansas (1978)
- Regular exhibitions in the 1920s and 1930s, and a Memorial Exhibition in 1946, at the Cliff Dwellers Club. Chicago, Illinois
- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsPennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsThe Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1805 and is the oldest art museum and school in the United States. The academy's museum is internationally known for its collections of 19th and 20th century American paintings,...
in 1923 (118th American Exhibition), 1928, and 1931 - The Fiesta Exhibition of Paintings by Artists of New Mexico at the Museum of New MexicoMuseum of New MexicoThe Museum of New Mexico consists of six separate institutions in Santa Fe, New Mexico, including :* New Mexico Museum of Art* Palace of the Governors* Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology* Museum of International Folk Art...
in Santa FeSanta Fe, New MexicoSanta Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...
, (1923) - The First Exhibition of the National Society of Mural PaintersNational Society of Mural PaintersThe National Society of Mural Painters is an American artists' organization founded in 1895, originally known as The Mural Painters. The charter of the society is to advance the techniques and standards for the design and execution of mural art for the enrichment of architecture in the United...
at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New YorkBuffalo, New YorkBuffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
, (1925) - The Art Institute of Chicago: Special Exhibitions; Sculpture by Nancy Cox McCormack, Mural Paintings by Puvis de Chevannes, Albet Besnard and The National Society of Mural Painters, March 17 to April 24,1925
- A Century of Progress International Exposition held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Chicago, (1933–1934)
- A total of thirty-two exhibitions at the Art Institute of ChicagoArt Institute of ChicagoThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
from 1906 through 1939 - Supreme Court of Illinois Art Exhibit of Murals, Friezes and Illinois landscapes (1980)
- Further detailed listing of exhibitions of the works of Albert Henry Krehbiel
Museums / Collections
Krehbiel's works are held in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, the De Paul University Art Museum in Chicago, the University of MichiganUniversity of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprising the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco and one of the largest art museums in California.-External...
M. H. De Young Museum, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The Block Museum was established in 1980 by Chicago art collectors Mary and Leigh B. Block...
at Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
in Evanston, Illinois, The Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa, The John Vanderpoel
John Vanderpoel
John Henry Vanderpoel was a Dutch-American artist and teacher, best known as an instructor of figure drawing. His book The Human Figure, a standard art school resource featuring numerous of his drawings based on his teaching at the Art Institute of Chicago, was published in 1907.Born in the...
Art Association, Chicago, Illinois and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company in Fort Worth, Texas. Albert Henry Krehbiel currently has 168 works listed in the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
Inventories of American Paintings and Sculpture in Washington, D.C., and selected archival material on Krehbiel's career is available at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C., as well as at The Art Institute of Chicago's Ryerson & Burnham
Ryerson & Burnham
The Ryerson & Burnham Libraries are the art and architecture research collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The libraries cover all periods with extensive holdings in the areas of 18th, 19th and 20th century architecture and 19th century painting, prints, drawings, and decorative arts...
Libraries and at fine arts libraries throughout the country.
Museum Collections Online
- Albert Krehbiel works in the Smithsonian American Art Museum Art Inventories Catalog
- Albert Krehbiel works in the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago
- Albert Krehbiel works in the permanent collection of The De Paul University Art Museum
- Albert Krehbiel in the permanent collection of The University of Michigan Museum of Art
Murals Online
- Albert Krehbiel's murals at the Illinois Supreme Court Building: The Third Branch - A Chronicle of the Illinois Supreme Court; The History of the Illinois Supreme Court
- Slideshow of Albert Krehbiel's murals at the Illinois Supreme Court Building -- Welcome to Illinois Courts
- Albert Krehbiel's mural for the wall of the Chicago Juvenile Court (from black and white archive photo), 1906, Chicago, Illinois
- Albert Krehbiel’s first mural (from black and white archive photo) created for the dining room ceiling of the family residence of Hugo Leisy, Cleveland, Ohio, 1906, oil on canvas.
Further reading
- Albert Krehbiel at The Art Institute of Chicago Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
- Albert Krehbiel at the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System, Washington, D.C.
- Albert Henry Krehbiel at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.
- Krehbiel, Life and Works of an American Artist, by Robert Guinan; Regnery Gateway, Washington, D.C; 1991; 33 pages text, 66 pages of plates: ill.; most color; Library of Congress Catalog, Call Number N6537.K726 A4 1991
- Albert Henry Krehbiel, 1873-1945; Early American Impressionist , article by Rebecca F. Krehbiel (Mrs. Evans L.) in the Journal of the Illinois Historical Society, ISSN 0019-2287, Spring 1984; pp. 14 – 20.
- http://ryerson.artic.edu/search~S5?/dKrehbiel%2C+Albert+Henry%2C+1873-1945+--+Exhibitions./dkrehbiel+albert+henry+1873+1945+exhibitions/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=dkrehbiel+albert+henry+1873+1945+exhibitions&2%2C%2C2AlbertKrehbiel, Santa Fe Works, exhibition catalogue by Catherine Whitney; Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; 1996; 35 pp., color ill. ; ISBN 0-935039-93-4; The Art Institute of Chicago Ryerson and Burnham Libraries Catalog]
- http://dig.lib.niu.edu/ISHS/ishs-1984spring/ishs-1984spring02.pdfAllegories of Justice, The Albert H. Krehbiel Murals in the Supreme Court Building of Illinois; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; presented at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Midwest Art Historical Society, Iowa City, Iowa, April 1, 1983; 12 pp.; cover article by Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson; Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, ISSN 0019-2287, Spring 1984; pp. 2 –13.]
- Henry Krehbiel, 1873-1945; Richard Norton Gallery, Chicago, IL : c2001. The Art Institute of Chicago Reyerson and Burnham Libraries Catalog
- Art Across America, Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710 –1920, by William Gerdts; Volume Two; Abbeville Press, New York; p. 319. ISBN 1-55859-033-1; Library of Congress CALL NUMBER: ND212 .G47 1990
- "Art-Related Archival Materials in the Chicago Area" by Betty Blum; Archives of American Art, American Art-Portrait Gallery Building, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1991
- The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1888 – 1950; Peter Hastings Falk, editor, Andrea Ansell Bien, assistant editor; Sound View Press, 1990; pp. 525 – 526.
- The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1914 – 1968. Peter Hastings Falk, editor; 1989; 538 pp.
- Albert H. Krehbiel, biography compiled for the Krehbiel family by Rebecca F. Krehbiel (Mrs. Evans L.); 1978; 16 pp., illus.
- Albert Krehbiel: An American Impressionist, by Kim Coventry; Sonnenschien Gallery; Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois; 1989; 11 pp., ill.
- Albert H. Krehbiel – An Architect’s Appreciation, article in Illinois Society of Architects, Monthly Bulletin; October – November 1945; Vol. 30, Nos. 4 – 5.
- Art and Architecture, section of El Palacio, vol. V, No. 13, October 19, 1918, p. 217; published by the Museum of New Mexico and the School of American Research.
- Catalog of the First Exhibition of the National Society of Mural Painters, September 25 – October 26, 1925, p. 7; The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
- Community Planning, section in El Palacio, vol. VIII, No.1 – 2, January 31, 1920, p. 51; published by the Museum of New Mexico and the School of American Research.
- Fiesta Exhibition, including the Eleventh Annual Exhibit of Taos Society of Artists, section in El Palacio, Vol. XV, No. 6, September 15, 1923, pp. 98 – 99; published by the Museum of New Mexico and the School of American Research.
- Mural Paintings and Bad Boys, article in Architectural Record, January 1908, pp. 77– 78.
- The court of A. Krehbiel: A niche in the landscape of Illinois art, article by Steve Slack, Saturday Magazine, The State Journal Register; September 27, 1980; pp. 8A – 9A; Springfield, Illinois.
- Further listing of books and publications about or containing information on Albert Henry Krehbiel at AskArt.com
The letters and writings of Albert Henry Krehbiel held in the archives of the Krehbiel Corporation, Evanston, Illinois. These letters and writings as well as further archival material on Albert Krehbiel are available on microfilm at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art in Washington, DC, as well as at the Art Institute of Chicago's Ryerson and Burnham Libraries.
External links
- Small sampling of the works of Albert Krehbiel (click on pictures for a larger image) at http://pintores.vtrbandaancha.net/pintores_impresionistas.html
- Albert Henry Krehbiel (1873-1945): American Impressionist Painter and Muralist
- Albert Henry Krehbiel at About.com:Art History
- The Carriage Factory Art Gallery: Albert H. Krehbiel, American Impressionist
- Albert Henry Krehbiel at AskArt.com; includes museums, book references, auction records and biographies
- Albert Henry Krehbiel works and biographical information at Art Experts, Inc.
- In February 2008, Albert Krehbiel was named the Illinois State Historical Artist for the murals that he painted on the walls and ceilings of the Illinois Supreme Court Building, Springfield, Illinois: Kalo Foundation.org
- Albert Krehbiel at Artist-Info
- Albert Krehbiel at Art in Context Center for Communications. Hosted by the Center for Arts Management and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University.
- Albert Henry Krehbiel at The Worldwide Art Gallery: Art Education; Great Artists; American Art
- Albert Henry Krehbiel represented at New Deal/W.P.A. Artist Biographies. Krehbiel was a strong influence on many young WPA artists.
- Albert Krehbiel at the-artists.org
- Albert H. Krehbiel at Richard Norton Gallery.com
- Albert H. Krehbiel at Suttons Bay Galleries.com
- Albert Krehbiel at Gerald Peters Gallery
- Albert H. Krehbiel at artnet.com
- Albert Henry Krehbiel biography at www.cartage.org
- Krehbiel,Albert Henry; U.S., Born Denmark, Iowa, November 25, 1873-- † Death : Evanston, Illinois, June 29, 1945. At http://pintores.vtrbandaancha.net/pintores_impresionistas.html