Ivan Albright

Born into a family of artists and artisans near Chicago in 1897, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, along with his identical twin Malvin, was immersed in art from a young age. His father, Adam Emory Albright, an Impressionist painter, used the boys as models and introduced them to drawing at age eight, alongside regular visits to the Art Institute of Chicago. This early exposure to prominent American Impressionists and Realists, including Childe Hassam and Robert Henri, laid a cruci…