Ivan Albright

American, 1897 - 1983

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Ivan Albright, Show Case Doll, 1954, lithograph in black, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.631

Show Case Doll

Ivan Albright · 1954 · lithograph in black ·  Accession ID  2008.115.631

Ivan Albright, Show Case Doll, 1954, lithograph in black, Gift of Peter Pollack, 1974.10.1

Show Case Doll

Ivan Albright · 1954 · lithograph in black ·  Accession ID  1974.10.1

Ivan Albright, George C. Miller, Associated American Artists, Follow Me, 1948 (published 1949), lithograph in black on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow), 2015.19.1072

Follow Me

Ivan Albright, George C. Miller, Associated American Artists · 1948 (published 1949) · lithograph in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.1072

Ivan Albright, George C. Miller, Associated American Artists, Self Portrait at 55 East Division Street, 1947, lithograph in black on wove paper, Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook, 1987.41.1

Self Portrait at 55 East Division Street

Ivan Albright, George C. Miller, Associated American Artists · 1947 · lithograph in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1987.41.1

Ivan Albright, George C. Miller, Associated American Artists, Fleeting Time, Thou Hast Left Me Old, 1945 (published 1946), lithograph in black on wove paper, The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection, 2011.60.5

Fleeting Time, Thou Hast Left Me Old

Ivan Albright, George C. Miller, Associated American Artists · 1945 (published 1946) · lithograph in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2011.60.5

Ivan Albright, Increase Robinson, 1932, lithograph in black, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.632

Increase Robinson

Ivan Albright · 1932 · lithograph in black ·  Accession ID  2008.115.632

A ballerina sitting on an unseen seat bending over to remove one worn, gray ballet slipper nearly fills this vertical painting. The woman has pale skin but her face, hands, legs, and the elbow we see are pink. She sits almost facing our right with her right leg out to brace her weight. She rests her left arm, farther from us, on her other knee as she reaches down to untie the slipper with her other hand. She has a cut or a sore on the back of her resting hand between the pointer and middle finger knuckles. The knee-length tutu shimmers between eucalyptus green and nearly white, and the lower hem is edged in dingy lace. Her bodice is rose pink, and the zipper on the side facing us has come partially undone. Her breasts hang heavy in the low-cut neckline. She turns her face to our left to look down in that direction. Scraggly tendrils of her reddish-brown hair fall around her face, and a band of red flowers are pinned along the right side of her head. Her forehead is heavily lined, and she has deep bags under her eyes. Her skin is mottled, and a crescent of her red lips are visible below her prominent nose. The background is dark bottle green, and the floor is streaked with yellow and dark green. A pink flower on the floor is near the lower left corner. The woman is lit starkly from our left, and the contours of her body against the dark background are lined with lighter aqua. The artist signed the lower left corner, “IVAN LE LORRAINE ALBRIGHT.”
Ivan Albright, There Were No Flowers Tonight, 1929, oil on canvas, Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith, 1972.7.1

There Were No Flowers Tonight

Ivan Albright · 1929 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1972.7.1

Bibliography

1978

  • Croydon, Michael. Ivan Albright. New York, 1978.

1997

  • Rossen, Susan F., ed., Ivan Albright. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago; The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1997.