Maxine Albro - Young Boy in a Sombrero Lithograph 1930s P2717

Delicate and powerful are two adjectives that do not contradict each other in the superb lithograph by the celebrated Maxine Albro. Limited edition, art measures 13 1/2" x 16" and the frame is 20 1/4" x 23 1/4".

Maxine Albro (January 20, 1893 Ayrshire, Iowa – July 19, 1966 Los Angeles) was an American painter, muralist, lithographer, mosaic artist, and sculptor. She was one of America's leading female artists, and one of the few women commissioned under the New Deal's Federal Art Project, which also employed Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning.

Albro's works can be found in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), National Gallery of Art, National Museum of the American Indian, San Francisco's Coit Tower, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Allied Arts Guild, and in various galleries and private collections.

Albro became a leader in the California muralist movement and was one of the first women to achieve such a prominent position. Her work was also highlighted by numerous paintings and lithographs, which are becoming rare and valuable collection pieces. Although she specialized in Spanish and Mexican motifs, she also painted landscapes and street scenes that were inspired by her world travels.

The famed photographer Imogen Cunningham took a hauntingly intimate portrait of a shrouded Albro in 1931 (which we have appended), adding her to a collection of notable painters that she photographed, which included Frida Kahlo, Miguel Covarrubias, and Lyonel Feininger.