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name: Albro
vorname: Maxine
wikidata-repräsentation: Q6795945
biografische angaben: * January 20, 1903 Ayrshire, Iowa, † July 19, 1966 Los Angeles. American painter, muralist and lithographer. She was one of the few female artists commissioned under the New Deal's Federal Art Project, a program launched during the Great Depression that also employed the likes of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Diego Rivera, among other painters who would go on to become famous.
Albro's works can be found in the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian American Art Museum, San Francisco's Coit Tower, Allied Arts Guild, and in various galleries throughout the United States. Albro studied under Diego Rivera in Mexico, and she is most recognized for her frescos and her characteristic treatment of Mexican and Spanish subject matter.
The strong influence of Mexican art is visible throughout her paintings, murals and lithographs. In an interview two years before her death, Albro said, «I was so influenced by what I had seen in Mexico. […] There is nothing I loved more than painting the Virgin of Guadalupe,» a celebrated Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary, which originated in Mexico.
Like Rivera, Albro was no stranger to controversy. A work that she painted at the Ebell Women's Club in Los Angeles, titled «Portly Roman Sybils,» offended some of the organization's members. The club rescinded approval of her frescoes, and destroyed the wall on which it was painted in 1935. Also destroyed was her mosaic of animals over the entrance to Anderson Hall at the University of California Extension in San Francisco. Outside of artwork commissioned for public buildings, Albro also painted frescoes for many private homes. (Source: Wikipedia)
