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Maxine Albro (January 20, 1903 Ayrshire, Iowa – July 19, 1966 Los Angeles) was an American painter, muralist, lithographer, mosaic artist, and sculptor. She was one of America's leading female artists, and one of the few women commissioned under the New Deal's Federal Art Project, which also employed the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. ==Life== Maxine Albro was born in 1903 in Ayrshire, Iowa, but grew up in Los Angeles. Her father's family came from England and settled in Rhode Island before moving west,〔Family History〕 and her mother's ancestors were of Irish-English descent. In 1920, she moved to San Francisco where she studied at the California School of Fine Arts from 1923 to 1925. A year later, she enrolled in the Art Students League of New York. In 1927, she studied at Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, before embarking to Mexico, where she would make the acquaintance of Diego Rivera. 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. Due to the high rate of joblessness during the Great Depression, these art programs were required to employ female artists, making this period the first time in history in which women were hired without discrimination in the United States. Throughout the 1930s, Albro executed many commissions under the federal program, including murals at Coit Tower and a mosaic at San Francisco State University. In 1931, 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. Her first showing consisted of 30 paintings and 30 drawings, which the ''Art Digest'' called "a critical as well as a popular triumph."〔 No stranger to controversy, a work of four nudes that Albro painted at the Ebell Women's Club in Los Angeles, titled ''Portly Roman Sybils'', offended the organization's members, and was destroyed in 1935. That year, several prominent art critics, including the young Arthur Miller, rose to her defense. "Personally I think they are beautiful decorations which deserve to live and which will be missed," Miller wrote.〔 ''The San Francisco News'' of May 25, 1935, printed the following: Also destroyed was her mosaic of animals over the entrance to Anderson Hall at the University of California Extension in San Francisco.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Maxine Albro )〕 In 1938, Albro married fellow artist Parker Hall. They moved to Carmel, California, and together they would return to Mexico numerous times throughout their lives. There, Albro became an assistant to Rivera and studied with Pablo O'Higgins, with whom she painted frescoes. Upon her return to the United States, Albro had several large art commissions. Albro was a member of the American Artists' Congress, California Society of Mural Artists, California Art Club, and the Carmel Art Association.〔 Albro was 63 years old when she died in Los Angeles in 1966. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maxine Albro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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