Antique American oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Please see all images for condition. Size is measured and written on the back of the painting. The first size is the overall size, the second size is the image size. For detailed condition questions please text 617-835-2496. Artist Bio: The youngest child of the painter Ernest Albert (1857-1946) and his wife Annie Elizabeth Bagwell Maxwell (1858-1925), E. Maxwell (Bill) Albert was born on August 1, 1890 at their residence at 5141 Hibbard Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Following the dissolution of artistic partnership between Ernest Albert Sr., Oliver Grover and Walter Burridge, Albert Sr. moved his family to "Grayeyres" in Rochelle Park, New Rochelle, New York where Ernest, Jr. attended public schools.In 1905, E. Maxwell Albert Jr. began his studies at the Art Student League in New York and in 1906 he painted a watercolor of Grand Central which is in the New York Historical Society Collection. In 1908, both father and son visited Old Lyme, Connecticut for part of the summer to sketch the picturesque countryside and to meet the denizens of the artist's colony. They boarded with Miss. Florence Griswold at "The Holy House", a beautiful old colonial house, which was a favorite haunt of visiting painters. Here they met (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson, then President of Princeton University and his wife, the former Ellen Axson, whose aspiration toward the arts drew them to Lyme. In 1909, both artists joined the Association. Ernest, Jr. also joined the Art Student League where he studied for four years under such men as L Lewis Moran, Frank Vincent Dumond and Edward Ruffer. In addition, he studied under his father for three years.His first exhibition was with Norman Rockwell and Vic Forsythe in 1916 at the New Rochelle Library where the Evening Standard headlined that Ernest Albert, Jr. "Gives Promise of Artist Strength". His works in the exhibition include landscapes from Maine and Old Lyme along with works titled: A Japanese Garden, and Afternoon Tea.In 1917, Ernest Jr. exhibited four works in the Third Annual Exhibition of the New Canaan Society of Artists and provided sketches and posters for the Red Cross Auction Sale at the Society's Red Barn. Also in 1917, Ernest Jr. was elected to membership in New York's Salmagundi Club. The 1918 Annual Exhibition on Oil Paintings at the Club included December by Ernest, Jr.On June 22, 1918, Ernest Jr. was inducted into the US Army and sent to Camp Meade, MD where shortly after his arrival the flu swept the camp and the country which he described as gruesome. In November, he was granted leave to help his mother who was convalescing from the influenza and on December 9th of that year he was honorably discharged. As the world got back to normal after WWI, Jr. accompanied his parents and friends to Mohegan and later to New Canaan to make arrangements for the 4th Annual Exhibition of the New Canaan Society's Annual Exhibition. This was to be the last Exhibition at the Red Barn and Ernest, Jr. exhibited six paintings.In 1921, Ernest Albert, Jr. was elected into the National Art Club in New York and into the New Rochelle Art Association. Indeed, the headlines for December 16, 1921 in the Evening Standard read: "Some Say Ernest Albert, Jr. Is Surpassing His Famous Sire". The article indicates that the more recent efforts of the younger Albert show decided rapid development and that he has broken away from his Father's Influence. Ernest, Jr. won the Adolph Grant Prize that year for his work entitled The Hills, a study of brown winter uplands and gray trees reflected in a woodland pond. And, in 1923, he won the Salmagundi Club's E. Irving Prize for a winter landscape. It was during this time, as he developed as an artist and as a man, Ernest, Jr. became increasing known as E. Maxwell Albert and by 1924 he became sought after by galleries of the day such as Casson Galleries in Copley Square in Boston. He also provided the cover of Country Life for which he received payment for in May of 1924. He is noted in Who's Who in New England as living as a "Commercial Artist with the Wing-Thayer Advertising Company and the Charles Daniel Frey Advertising Company for 1920-1921 and having his own landscaping studio since 1922." It also notes his residency as New Canaan and that he was a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Lyme Art Association, the Allied Artists of America, Silver Mine Guild. It also mentioned he was a Presbyterian and a Republican.In 1925 he had a single exhibition of 38 paintings at the Holt Gallery on Lexington Avenue in New York and he is included in Who's Who in Art, 1925. In 1926, after a successful exhibition at the Holt, he contemplated marriage to Miss Stella Walters of New Canaan but it is not known why they did not marry.During the Depression, E. Maxwell remained a bachelor and much of his time was spent with his sister and brother-in-law, Edith and Thad Du Flon. E. Maxwell, known to his friends and family as Bill, was a familiar and popular figure around town in New Canaan. In addition to painting, Bill completed delicate and exacting restoration work and he worked on the government's Art Project. As a result of this, his works are in the state office building at Connecticut's capital, Hartford. Years later, after his death, several of his paintings of Mead Park in New Canaan were given to the town and hung in the Town Hall Meeting Rooms. His works are in numerous public and private collections.E. Maxwell Albert died in 1955, at the age of sixty-five, just nine years after his father's death.Sources include the papers of Andrea Razek, grand niece of the artist.

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9 x 11 x 1 in