Albright, Ivan

Albright, Ivan (Le Lorraine)

(born Feb. 20, 1897, North Harvey, Ill., U.S.—died Nov. 18, 1983, Woodstock, Vt.) U.S. painter. He was the son of a painter. Independently wealthy, he studied at various institutions, developing a meticulously detailed style and often spending several years of painstaking work on a single painting. With pinpoint exactness and hallucinatory hyperclarity, he repeatedly depicted decay, corruption, and the wreckage of age, often with great emotional intensity. Among his important works is That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (1931–41). He gained fame with his portrait (1943–44) of the title character in the film The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), depicting the final stage of Gray's dissolute life.

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Albright, Ivan (Le Lorraine) (1897–1983) painter; born in North Harvey, Ill. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1920–23) and lived in various places until settling in Woodstock, Vt. A former medical draftsman, he drew on this background, both in his preoccupation with decay and in his paintings' macabre surrealistic details—as in That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (1931–32). He attained his widest exposure from the painting that was the centerpiece of the movie, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945).