Albert Herter

American (1871-1950)

Born in New York City in 1871, Herter studied art with Carroll Beck at the Art Students League in New York and with Jean Paul Laurens and Fernand Cormon in Paris. When Herter returned from Paris, he taught at the Chicago Art Institute. He was also head of Herter Looms, a textile, curtain, upholstery, and tapestry company based in New York City .  He successfully ran this business while carrying on with his career as an artist. Most well known for his murals and portraits, Herter also painted covers for the Ladies’ Home Journal and other magazines and illustrated a number of books.

Herter exhibited at the Paris Salon, Atlanta Exposition,  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Nashville Exposition, American Water Color Society, Paris Exposition and Pan-American Exposition. His work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.