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(1883-1959)
Percy Albee was a student of both the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts and the Rhode Island School of Design. He met his wife, the noted
wood engraver, Grace Albee, at RISD. In his early career, he painted
murals and was a printmaker in Providence. He enjoyed membership at
the Providence Art Club and the Providence Water Color Club. Albee was
awarded many mural commissions including both Memorial Hall, St. Paul’s
Chapel at Brown University, The Roger Williams Park Museum, the Rhode
Island Country Club and the Auditorium of the Brigham School in Providence.
The latter mural was received in the American Magazine of Art in 1926.
By the late 1920’s Percy took his family to Paris where he concentrated
on large lithographs. By the 1930’s they returned to New York
and eventually settled in Bucks Count, Pennsylvania. He continued to
work and achieved Associate Member of the National Academy of Design,
The Society Etchers and the Sal Magundi Club. He also won the 1937 prize
for an exhibition at the Allied Artists of America.