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Albert Alcalay
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Gay Head off Martha's Vineyard |
After
liberation, Alcalay went to Rome with his family, where he was
befriended and encouraged by two artist brothers, Mirko (who was later
to come to Boston, and teach at Harvard University) and Afro. He was
welcomed by Rome’s artistic community, had his first one-man show and
first acquisition by a public collection.
In 1950, Alcalay began a long
attraction to abstract expressionism through his association with
Kandinsky, and he began to make the transition, in his painting, from
expressionism to abstraction. He arrived in the United States as a
refugee, and settled in Boston. His first Boston dealer was the highly
regarded Boris Mirski. Alcalay also exhibited at the Boston Museum
School, and began working at Newton Potters creating numerous ceramic
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Through the
50’s, the American city, steel structures, heavy industry became
Alcalay’s focus. He exhibited at the Swetzoff Gallery in Boston, and Hy
Swetzoff became his dealer. At his one-man show, the catalogue preface
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As much as he
is a prolific artist, Albert Alcalay is also a dedicated and revered
teacher. In 1956, Alcalay established his own summer school of painting
in Gloucester, MA. He joined the Harvard University faculty in 1960 to
teach visual design, and in 1963, joined the Faculty of the newly
established Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University,
where he taught until 1982. In 1970, he was invited to be a Visiting Kay
Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Maryland. He
still teaches a number of private students at his home studio.
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