"Still Life" by early California Modernist artist Maxine Albro (1893 - 1966), original oil painting on canvas. Unframed height 26 inches, unframed width 20 inches. Wood Gold Leaf frame. Signed by the artist, lower left. Born in Ayrshire, Iowa on Jan. 20, 1893, Maxine Albro, when quite young, moved with her family to Los Angeles where she grew up and graduated from high school in 1920. Moving to San Francisco at that time, she worked as a commercial artist in order to fund one year of art study at the Art Students League in NYC and in Paris at Ecole de la Grande Chaumière.Upon returning to San Francisco, she then attended the California School of Fine Art during 1923-25. In the 1930s she worked for the Federal Public Works of Art Project. On one of her many trips to Mexico she studied mural painting with Diego Rivera.After marrying sculptor Parker Hall in 1938, she settled in Carmel on the Monterey Peninsula. Although she specialized in Spanish and Mexican motifs, her work also includes landscapes and street scenes gleaned from her world travels.She died in Los Angeles on July 19, 1966.Member: Carmel Art Association; California Society of Mural Artists; American Artists Congress (NYC).Exhibitions:California Art Club, 1918; San Francisco Art Association from 1925; Delphi Studios, NYC, 1931; LACMA, 1933; Berkeley Women's City Club, 1934; Foundation of Western Art (LA), 1934; Beaux Arts Club (SF), 1930; Gump's (SF), 1932-34; GGIE 1939. In: SF State Teachers College; Allied Arts Guild (Menlo Park); Ebell Club (LA); Vallejo (CA) High School; Biltmore Hotel (Santa Barbara); Hofsas House (Carmel); Santa Catalina School (Monterey); Mills College (Oakland); De Young Museum; Coit Tower (SF).

Good condition.