Albert Eugene Gallatin

Place: Villanova

Born: 1881

Death: 1952

Biography:

Albert Eugene Gallatin was an American artist, art collector, and author. He was born in Villanova, Pennsylvania in 1881 and died in New York City in 1952. Gallatin was a leading proponent of nonobjective and abstract art, particularly Cubism. He was a member of New York's social elite and became interested in American artists such as Otho Cushing, Frederick Frieseke, Walter Gay, Everett Shinn, William Glackens, Ernest Lawson, John Sloan, John Marin, and Boardman Robinson. He was also a great-grandson of Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, politician, founder of New York University, diplomat, and United States Secretary of the Treasury. Gallatin's contributions to abstract art in New York took many forms, including writing about, collecting, exhibiting, and creating works of art. He is known for his 'Park Avenue Cubism' style and for founding the Gallery of Living Art at New York University. Gallatin's collection of modern art was donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.