Albert Henry Krehbiel was born in Denmark, Iowa, on November 25th, 1873.
He was a graduate of The Art Institute of Chicago, where, in 1902, he was granted an American Traveling Scholarship to study in Paris at the Academie Julian under muralist and neoclassical painter Jean-Paul Laurens. While in Paris, Krehbiel won four gold medals at the Academie Julian (the only American ever to have done so) as well as the coveted Prix de Rome and many other awards and prizes.

Returning to the United States, Krehbiel designed and painted the murals for the walls of the Chicago Juvenile Court in 1906. In 1907, he was unanimously awarded the commission in a national competition to design and paint the eleven wall and two ceiling murals for the Illinois Supreme Court Building in Springfield, the state’s capitol. Begun in 1907, the murals were completed in 1911. Mr. W. Carby Zimmerman, architect of the Illinois Supreme Court Building, considered the work done by Krehbiel to be “an example of the best mural painting ever executed in the West”.

In 1918 and 1919, Krehbiel spent his summers at art colonies in Santa Monica, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 1920 through 1923, he spent summers exclusively in Santa Fe as an exhibiting member of the Santa Fe Art Colony. In the summers of 1922 and 1923, he was invited by the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe to participate in it’s Visiting Artists Program and was given a studio in the prestigious Palace of the Governors next to his contemporary, Ashcan realist Robert Henri.

Krehbiel had associations and exhibitions with the other artists of the Santa Fe Art Colony -- and the Taos Society of Artists -- such as George Bellows and Gustave Baumann (exhibition in McPherson, Kansas, 1918), and B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Marsden Hartley, and Sheldon Parsons (exhibition in El Paso, Texas, 1920). Other notable artists that Krehbiel exhibited with during this period include Victor Higgins, Earnest Blumenschein, John Sloan, Raymond Johnson, and Stuart Davis.

Krehbiel was a member of the faculty at The Art Institute of Chicago for 39 years and at the Armour Institute of Technology (later named the Illinois Institute of Technology) for 32 years. In 1926, Krehbiel helped pioneer the Chicago Art Institute Summer School of Painting (later named the Ox-Bow) in Saugatuck, Michigan, where he spent the rest of his summers teaching and painting. When able to break away from his students, Krehbiel would capture the surrounding rolling hills and the Kalamazoo River in oil, watercolor, and pastel. He would often visit Saugatuck in winters to portray the area in its vast and billowing cover of snow.

Throughout the years, Krehbiel painted continuously. From his brightly-colored Santa Fe and Santa Monica landscapes to his historic Chicago cityscapes and wooded presentations of rural Midwest winters, he painted incessantly and without regard for the elements.

Albert Henry Krehbiel passed away suddenly from a heart attack on June 29, 1945, the very day of his retirement from the Illinois Institute of Technology, although he had agreed to stay on at The Art Institute of Chicago for one more year.

During his prolific career, Krehbiel’s works were shown in a multitude of exhibitions. Krehbiel’s career resume of prominent exhibitions includes the following:

- the American Art Association, Paris, France, 1905
- Salon Des Artistes Francais, Paris, 1905
- Museo Nacional de Pintura Y. Escultura, Madrid, Spain, 1906
- the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1923, 1928, and 1931
- the Fiesta Exhibition of Paintings by Artists of New Mexico at the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, 1923
- the First Exhibition of the National Society of Mural Painters at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, 1925
- a total of thirty-two exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago from 1906 through 1939

Many of Krehbiel’s works are held in private collections throughout the world as well as in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco, California, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company. Krehbiel has work listed in the Smithsonian Institution Inventories of American Paintings and Sculpture, and selected archival material on Krehbiel’s career is available at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art in Washington, D. C., as well as at The Art Institute of Chicago’s Ryerson and Burnham Libraries and at fine arts libraries throughout the country.

1905 American Art Association, Paris, France
1905 Academie Julian, Paris
1905 Salon Des Artistes Francais, Paris
1906…Museo Nacional de Pintura Y. Escultura, Madrid, Spain
1906…Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1907…Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1910 The Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition of Artist Copies of Old Masters
1911 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1913 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1914 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1914 Chicago Artists 18th Annual Exhibition
1916 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1916 Chicago Artists 20th Annual Exhibition
1917 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1918 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1918 The Art Institute Alumni Exhibition, Chicago
1918 The McPherson High School 8th Annual Exhibit, McPherson, Kansas (Exhibit also included paintings by Sheldon Parsons, George Bellows, Birger Sandzen, Gustave Baumann, Oscar Jacobsen, and Raymond Johnson)
1919 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1920 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1920 The Art Institute of Chicago Paintings & Sculpture 33rd Annual Exhibition, Traveling Exhibition of Painters & Sculptors of Chicago
1920 War Camp Community Service Club, El Paso, Texas (exhibition also included paintings by B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Marsden Hartley, and Sheldon Parsons)
1921 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1921 Chicago Artists 25th Annual Exhibition
1922 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1922 Chicago Artists 26th Annual Exhibition
1922 The Art Institute of Chicago American Painting & Sculpture 35th Annual Exhibition
1923 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1923 Pennsylvania Academie of Fine Arts 118th American Exhibition
1923 Fiesta Exhibition of Paintings by Artist of New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe
1924 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1924 The Art Institute of Chicago, American Painting & Sculpture
1924 37th Annual Exhibition
1924 Chicago Artists 28th Annual Exhibition
1925 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1925 Chicago Artists 29th Annual Exhibition
1925 The Art Institute of Chicago American Paintings & Sculpture 35th Annual Exhibition
1925 First Exhibition of the National Society of Mural Painters, Buffalo
1925 Fine Arts Academy Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1926 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1926 Chicago Artists 30th Annual Exhibition
1926 The Art Institute of Chicago American Paintings & Sculpture 36th Annual Exhibition
1926 Carson Pirie Scott Exhibition
1926 The Chicago Artists Show, The Art Institute of Chicago,
1927 Chicago Galleries Association
1927 Chicago Artists 31st Annual Exhibition
1928 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1928 Chicago Galleries Association
1928 Chicago Artists 32nd Annual Exhibition
1928 Pennsylvania Academie of Fine Arts 123rd Annual Exhibition
1929 Chicago Galleries Association
1930 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1930 Chicago Galleries Association
1931 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1931 Chicago Artists 35th Annual Exhibition
1931 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 126th Annual Exhibition
1932 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1932 Chicago Artists 36th Annual Exhibition
1933 Chicago World Fair Exhibition
1934 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1934 The Art Institute of Chicago, Artists of Chicago Vicinity 49th Annual Exhibition
1935 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1937 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1938 The Art Institute of Chicago American Painting & Sculpture 51st Annual Exhibition
1939 Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago
1939 Chicago Artists 43rd Annual Exhibition
1946 Illinois Institute of Technology Memorial Exhibition *
1964 Cliff Dwellers Club of Chicago *
1966 Fine Arts Center, Bethel College, Newton, Kansas *
1980 Supreme Court of Illinois Art Exhibit, Springfield, Illinois *
1981 Cantigny Robert R. McCormick Museum Exhibit, Wheaton, Illinois *
1982 Union League Club, Chicago, Illinois *
1982 Dellora A. Norris Cultural Arts Center, St. Charles, Illinois *
1982 Springfield Art Association, Springfield, Illinois *
1983 Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois *
1984 Cantigny Robert R. McCormick Museum Exhibit, Wheaton, Illinois *
1984 Illinois State Historical Society Benefit Exhibition, Marine Bank, Springfield, Illinois *
1989 Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois *
1990 Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois *
1991 Hanson Art Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana *
1992 Wally Findlay Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
1993 Wally Findlay Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
1994 15th Anniversary Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
1994 Dellora A. Norris Cultural Arts Center, St. Charles, Illinois *
1995 The Fourth Annual Katherine Filson Covington Memorial Art Exhibition
1995 Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois *
1996 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico *
1997 Newton Carriage Factory Gallery, Newton, Kansas *
1999 Gerald Peters Gallery, New York City, New York *

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