Paintings

Albert Rosenthal

Albert Rosenthal was born in Philadelphia in 1863 and was known as a painter, etcher and lithographer. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art under his father Max Rosenthal; the Académie Julian, Paris in 1980; l’École des Beaux-Arts under Jean Leon Gérôme, and also in Munich. 

Rosenthal was a member of the Washington Art Club, Salmagundi Club, Charcoal Club in Baltimore, the Locust Club in Philadelphia and the American Federation of Art.  

He received a bronze medal at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and a bronze medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, 1915. Rosenthal also exhibited at the Salon of Independent Artists in 1917 and the Salons of America. 

He is represented in the Brooklyn Museum, Butler Art Institute in Youngstown, Ohio, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Detroit Institute, St. Louis Museum, Dallas Art Association, Rhode Island School of Design and the Newport Art Association.

 The artist’s biography is included in the Bénézit dictionary, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, Who Was Who in American Art and the Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers of the U.S.

 Albert Rosenthal died in 1939 in New York City.

Addendum from Roy R. Behrens:

According to an essay by William Bell Clark, titled "Camouflage Painting on the Delaware," in Philadelphia in the World War 1914-1919 (NY: Philadelphia War History Committee, 1922, pp. 318-322) Albert Rosenthal was among a group of artists who served during World War I as civilian ship camouflage artists for the U.S. Shipping Board in Philadelphia.