Quick Facts
Biography
Ernest Dewey Albinson (1898 in Minneapolis, Minnesota – 1971 in Mexico) was an American artist.
Life
He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1919, and at the Art Students League on a scholarship.
He was the director and teacher at the Saint Paul School for Art, from 1926 to 1929. In 1933, he worked for the Public Works of Art Project, and in 1934 his painting Northern Minnesota Mine was exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and toured the country. He was a project director for the Minnesota State Department of Education, from 1935 to 1937. He painted murals for post offices in Cloquet, Minnesota, and Marquette, Michigan. He was president of the Minnesota Art Association, from 1937 to 1938.
His work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum,
San Diego Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and Frederick R Weisman Art Museum.