Ivan Albright Original Watercolor sells for $1383
Friday, July 31st, 2009If this piece is right, then it pre-dates Ivan’s graduation from the Art Institute of Chicago. It sold on eBay in July 2009 for $1383 with 19 bids.
Ivan Albright (1897-1983)
Born in 1897 outside Chicago, both Ivan Le Lorraine Albright and his twin brother Malvin Marr were artists. Their was a painter who gave his children middle names of artists he admired.
Albright graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1923. Albright thought of himself as an individualist unrelated to current art movements. He was opposed to abstraction and socially- engaged art that developed around him.
The watercolor measures 9” x 11.50″ without the frame. It is signed in the lower left
France October 20, 1918
Ivan Albright U.S.A.
Base hospital No 11
Condition: Warped paper, stains and a small tear. The seller claimed to have found it at a garage sale.



