Herman Oliver Albright
American artist, born in Germany, 1876–1944
Originally doing photography as a hobby, by 1915 Albright was studying art and exhibiting in San Francisco, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, and at the San Francisco Art Association from 1916 through the 1930s. In 1917, he married his art teacher, painter Gertrude Partington, at which time he legally changed his name from Albrecht to Albright.
Also known as H. Oliver Albright, Herman Albright was active in the San Francisco art community, and by the 1930s was able to devote full time to his art career. He exhibited often throughout the rest of his life, at San Francisco’s California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Commercial Club, Gump’s Gallery, and the Beaux Arts Gallery, as well as at the California State Fair and the Springville Museum in Utah, winning many awards.
During the 1930s, Albright made a series of lithographs and a series of Chinese ink wash drawings depicting the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge during its construction, both of which were highly regarded and widely exhibited, including a show of the ink wash drawings at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1937.
Herman Albright passed away in San Francisco in 1944. Posthumous exhibitions of Albright’s work include "The Art of H. Oliver Albright: An Appreciation" at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1947, and a show at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York in 1953.
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American artist, 1874–1959, born in England
American painter and museum director, 1885–1970
American painter and sculptor, born 1948
American painter, illustrator, and muralist, 1868–1955
