Raymer Society Consignment Art Auction
Lot 131:
Albert Henry Krehbiel (1873-1945) oil pastel, signed in lower left, good condition, size: 8.75 x 10.75 inches. Born Denmark, IA, 1873; died Evanston, IL, June 29, 1945. Painter. Muralist Teacher. Family moved to Newton in 1879 where his father was a carriage and buggy maker. Krehbiel graduated from Bethel College, Newton in 1897, the Topeka School of Design and Painting, and the Art Institute of Chicago from 1897-1902. In 1903 he traveled to Europe to study at the Acad?mie Julian with Jean Paul Laurens. Returned to Chicago in 1906 and began work on the thirteen murals commissioned for the Illinois state Supreme Court Building and to teach at the Art Institute for the next 39 years. He also taught at the Saugatuck Michigan School of Summer Painting, the Armour Institute, and at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Beginning in the 1920s, he regularly visited New Mexico and occupied a studio next to Robert Henri.
Condition: good condition
Dimensions: 15 x 16.5 x 1 in
Weight: 1.1 lb
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