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Ivan Le Lorraine Albright

Ivan Le Lorraine Albright (1897 - 1983) was active/lived in Illinois.  Ivan Albright is known for Figure, still life paintings, structures.

Ivan Albright, known for his necrotic art, is not generally considered a realist in the traditional sense.  His work, with strong emphasis on surface detail and use of warped perspective and multiple angles of light, has sometimes been called hyper-realistic.  It can be linked with 'magic realism', but a rather funereal and macabre kind of 'magic', a vision of haunting psychological intensity imbued with a morbid sense of the corruption of matter and the decay of age.

Born on February 20, 1897, in North Harvey, Illinois, on the outskirts of Chicago, Ivan was the son of Adam Emory and Clara Emilia (Wilson) Albright.  His father, a genre painter, was the descendant of a long line of gunsmiths.  He named Ivan Le Lorraine after the 17th-century French painter Claude Lorrain.  Ivan's identical twin brother, Malvin, was given the middle name Marr, after Carl von Marr, under whom Adam had studied art in Germany.  An older brother was named Lisle Murillo, a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 15640 characters.]  Artist bio

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