biography of Albert WORCESTER (1878-1935)

Birth place: West Compton, NH

Addresses: Paris, France; Detroit, MI; New Orleans, active 1918

Profession: Painter, etcher

Studied: Maud Mathewson in Detroit; NYC; Italy; Académie Julian, Paris with J.P. Laurens, 1908; also with Merson in Paris.

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1905-06, 1918; Corcoran Gal biennial, 1916; NOAA, 1918; Delgado Mus. Art, 1919; AIC

Comments: Worcester came to New Orleans in 1918 to exhibit three paintings of landscape and genre scenes. He died as the result of a fall in Barcelona, Spain.

Sources: WW21; Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 424; Gibson, Artists of Early Michigan, 249; Falk, Exh. Record Series.