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Albert, Calvin [1918-2007. USA. Sculptor/Metalworker]

 

Calvin Albert was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on 19 November 1918. He studied under Otto Karl Bach at the Grand Rapids Art Gallery; under Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Gyorgy Kepes at the Institute of Design in Chicago; at the Art Institute of Chicago; and at the Archipenko School of Sculpture in Chicago. He subsequently worked as a sculptor, influenced by the Abstract Expressionist school. He often created in a metal alloy he developed. Commissions included doors and candelabra for Steinberg House in New York City (1954); outdoor candelabra for Temple Israel in Tulsa, Oklahoma (1955); the eternal light and candelabra for Temple Israel in Bridgeport, Connecticut (1957); a crucifix, tabernacle and candlesticks for St. Paul’s Church in Peoria, Illinois (1959); and a façade relief for the Congregation Emanuel of Grand Rapids, Michigan (1979). Albert taught at the Institute of Design in Chicago (1942-46) and at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York (1947-49), before being appointed Professor of Art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, a position he held until his retirement in 1985 when he was made Professor Emeritus. He subsequently retired to Margate, Florida. Calvin was awarded the Haass Prize by the Detroit Institute of Arts (1953); a Fulbright Advanced Research Grant to study in Italy (1961-62); Tiffany Grants (1963 and 1965); a Guggenheim Fellowship (1966); and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award (1975). Retrospective exhibitions of his work were held at the Jewish Museum in New York City (1965), and at Guildhall Museum in East Hampton, New York (1979). Calvin was the co-author, with Dorothy Gees Seckler, of ‘Figure Drawing Comes to Life’ (New York, NY: Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1957). He died in Florida on 4 June 2007. Examples of Albert’s work are included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Jewish Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan; the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia; and Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. A microfilm copy of Albert’s papers for 1933-64 is available from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

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