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Alberta Kinsey Biography

Alberta Kinsey  (1875 - 1952)


A painter and illustrator, Alberta Kinsey was an art instructor at the University of Ohio in Lebanon. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was a member of the Cincinnati Women's Art Club. She then moved to New Orleans, where she worked with Ellsworth Woodward and lived in the French Quarter for more than thirty years. It is said that she inspired the development of an art colony there.

She is also known for her association with Clementine Hunter, Louisiana's famous folk artist. On one occasion, Kinsey left behind her paints and brushes, which Hunter used to paint her first picture of a bouquet of zinnias.

Kinsey was a trained, sophisticated artist, but she often painted directly-stated, semi-primitive paintings of patios, courtyards and historic buildings, perhaps under the influence of modernism.

Kinsey taught at Lebanon University, Lebanon, Ohio, and the Delgado Museum of Art (now the New Orleans Museum of Art). She belonged to the Cincinnati Art Association, Ohio; New Orleans Arts and Crafts Club; and New Orleans Art Association. She is represented in the collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art and Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans.

Alberta Kinsey died in 1952.

Source: AskART