20 Facts About Maxine Albro

Maxine Albro was an American painter, muralist, lithographer, mosaic artist, and sculptor.

Maxine Albro was one of America's leading female artists, and one of the few women commissioned under the New Deal's Federal Art Project, which employed Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning.

Ethel Maxine Albro was born in 1893 in Ayrshire, Iowa, the daughter of Frank Albro, a grain buyer and piano salesman, and Cordelia Mead.

Maxine Albro had an older brother, Francis, and a younger brother, Harold.

Maxine Albro spent part of her youth in Estherville, Iowa.

On March 28,1938, Maxine Albro married fellow artist Parker Hall in Pima, Arizona.

Maxine Albro was a member of the American Artists' Congress, California Society of Mural Artists, California Art Club, and the Carmel Art Association.

Maxine Albro was 73 years old when she died in Los Angeles in 1966.

In 1931, Maxine Albro had a major exhibition in New York City, in accord with the modern Mexican art renaissance that had been fostered in the city's galleries.

Maxine Albro was one of the few women who were part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, a program initiated under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

Maxine Albro was assisted by artist George Michael Gaethke on the Coit Tower mural.

Outside of artwork commissioned for public buildings, Maxine Albro painted frescoes for many private homes, including the entrance and courtyard of the Seldon Williams House in Berkeley, California, designed by Julia Morgan and completed in 1928.

Maxine Albro painted the The Four Sybils on the walls of the central courtyard of the Ebell Women's Club in the 1930's.

Maxine Albro's mural titled California at San Francisco's Coit Tower, which depicts the bounty of California's agricultural industry, was produced under the Works Progress Administration program.

In 1934, the Literary Digest wrote about Maxine Albro's California, comparing it to the other murals painted inside Coit Tower:.

Richest and most vivid is the wall painted by Maxine Albro, reflecting the sunny, abundant fields of California, and their prodigal flow of fruit and grain.

Maxine Albro's works are nicely rendered, pleasing and should have considerable popular appeal.

Maxine Albro was most recognized for her frescoes and her characteristic treatment of Mexican and Spanish subject matter.

Maxine Albro became a leader in the California muralist movement and was one of the first women to achieve such a prominent position.

Maxine Albro's work was highlighted by numerous paintings and lithographs, which are becoming rare and valuable collection pieces.