Dewey Albinson

Ernest Dewey Albinson (March 9, 1898 in Minneapolis, Minnesota – 1971 in Jalisco, Mexico) was an American artist.

Early life and education
Albinson was the son of Swedish immigrant parents.

He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1919, and at the Art Students League on a scholarship. He lived in France from 1923 to 1925.

Career
He was the director and teacher at the Saint Paul School for Art, from 1926 to 1929. From 1929 to 1931, he lived in Italy, then moved to New York in 1932.

In 1933, he worked for the Public Works of Art Project, and in 1934 his painting Northern Minnesota Mine was exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and toured the country. He was a project director for the Minnesota State Department of Education, from 1935 to 1937. He painted murals for post offices in Cloquet, Minnesota, and Marquette, Michigan. He was president of the Minnesota Art Association, from 1937 to 1938. From 1939 to 1941, he lived in Quebec. After returning to Minnesota, he moved to Stockton, New Jersey (to live near his friend, painter B.J.O. Nordfeldt), and finally to Nayarit, Jalisco, Mexico in 1953.

His work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and Frederick R Weisman Art Museum.