About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Art museums and galleries in Iowa, Artists from Iowa, Arts centers in Iowa, Monuments and memorials in Iowa, Outdoor sculptures in Iowa, Albert Henry Krehbiel, Geof Darrow, Grant Wood, Dulah Marie Evans, The Boy with the Leaking Boot, Everett Warner, Daniel Rhodes, Dean Schwarz, Stone City Art Colony, Sherry Edmundson Fry, Ronald Verlin Cassill, Soldier's Monument, Andrew Clemens, Veterans Memorial Building, Nellie Walker, Sergeant Floyd Monument, South Omaha Veterans Memorial Bridge, The Lone Sailor, Peter David Edstrom, Lee Allen, Lloyd Dunn, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Dillon Memorial, Marvin Cone, Maynard Reece, Des Moines Art Center, Episcopal Church of the Saviour, Jeff Jacobson, Isabel Bloom, Siouxland Veterans Memorial Bridge, Mary Louise Boehm, Ann Royer, Dave Merrick, Julien Dubuque's Mines, Conger Metcalf, Abraham Lincoln Statue and Park, William C. Palmer, Molecule Man, Benjamin Edwards, Catherine Jones Davies, UNI Gallery of Art. Excerpt: Albert Henry Krehbiel (November 25, 1873 - June 29, 1945), was an American artist who was born in Denmark, Iowa and who taught, lived and worked for many years in Chicago. Although educated as a realist in Paris, which is reflected in his neoclassical mural works, soon developed a strong appreciation for impressionism and is mainly known as an American impressionist. Later in his career, Krehbiel began experimenting in a more modernist manner (a style that became known as "synchromism"). Born in Denmark, Iowa, in 1873, Albert Henry Krehbiel was a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, in 1902, he was granted an American Traveling Scholarship to study abroad. In 1903, he began his three years of study at the Academie Julian in Paris under history painter and muralist Jean-Paul Laurens.; Krehbiel won four gold medals at the Academie Julian (the only American ev...
