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Grace Albee

1890 - 1985 | Estate Artist

grace albeeGrace Albee produced over two hundred prints in a fifty year career span as a wood engraver and became noted as a keen observer of the world around her, be it local scenery of Paris, Pennsylvania farm country, or the Rhode Island sea coast. Albee was first exposed to wood engraving as a child when looking though her grandfather's old books. A precise and exacting personality such as Grace's was inclined toward this painstaking and meticulous medium.

Despite her father's disdain for the frivolous art world, the young woman attended Rhode island School of Design and there met her artist husband, Percy, sealing her art destiny. It was in 1928 that the Albees departed Providence and enthusiastically made their way to the artistic mecca of Paris. The young mother of five boys managed to take her first and only lesson in wood engraving with Paul Bornet. From this point onward, Grace immersed herself in the wood engraving medium and would pursue with no further instruction other than her own experimentation and self-tutelage. Further into her career Grace Albee became known for imagery not about humanity but rather, the effects of human habitation in the country and city and was accepted in the prestigious National Academy of Design.

  • Grace Albee 1890 - 1985 *
  • Percy Albee 1883 - 1969
  • Edward M. Bannister 1828 - 1901
  • Elijah Baxter 1828 - 1901
  • Anna R. Brewster 1870-1952
  • Sydney Burleigh 1853-1931
  • Henry Newell Cady 1849-1935
  • Samuel Roscoe Chaffee 1850 – 1913
  • Antonio Cirino 1888 - 1983
  • Edgar Corbridge 1901-1988
  • F. Usher DeVoll 1873 - 1941
  • William Staples Drown - 1856 - 1915
  • H.A. Dyer 1872 - 1943 *
  • H. Cyrus Farnum 1866-1926
  • Walter Feldman 1925-2017
  • Ruth Forrest 1919-1994
  • John Frazier 1889 - 1966
  • Eliza Gardiner 1871 - 1955
  • Rebecca Russel Greene - 1879 - 1953
  • Mary Helme Hale - 1862-1940
  • James Herbert 1898 - 1970
  • George Hitchcock 1850 - 1913
  • Margarete Koehler-Bittkow (1897-1964)
  • E.C. Leavitt 1842-1904
  • Florence Leif 1913 - 1968 *
  • Steven W. Macomber 1889-1983
  • Edna Martin 1896-1996
  • Frank C. Mathewson 1861 - 1941
  • Maxwell Mays 1918 - 2009
  • Angela O'Leary 1879-1921
  • Gordon Peers 1909 - 1988
  • Henri Schonhardt 1875 – 1953
  • Charles Stetson 1858-1911
  • Emma Swan 1853 - 1927
  • George Whitaker 1840 - 1916
  • Mabel May Woodward, 1877 - 1945

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