Great-grandson of Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Jefferson and Madison, Albert Eugene Gallatin was the son of Albert H. and Louisa Ewing Gallatin. Albert Eugene studied law at the New York Law School, but his lifelong devotion was to to art, beginning in about 1910. He was primarily interested in abstract painting, and wrote numerous books on art. Gallatin's name was closely associated with the Gallery of Living Art, from its beginnings in 1927 at New York University through its relocation in 1943 to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where Gallatin was a trustee. Gallatin was also himself an artist whose works were exhibited in the United States and abroad. Gallatin never married.
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1976
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1986
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