Albert Nemethy

Albert Szatmar Nemethy (; March 31, 1920 – September 3, 1998) was a Hungarian-born American artist, noted for being one of the Hudson Valley's most legendary art figures. Art historian and author, Roderic H. Blackburn, claims that Nemethy may have "produced more paintings spanning a wider range of subjects than any other artist in the country." It is estimated that during his life he produced as many as 5,000 paintings.

Nemethy is most admired for his highly detailed steamboat paintings along with early American folk art paintings. His father was an insurance salesman and his mother a homemaker. Although she was a talented fine artist, she never took it up professionally. Others in his family were musicians, with one widely known throughout Hungary.

Painting of Rocky Mountains with Native Americans, after Albert Bierstadt's 1863 painting, "The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak" In the 1980s his rural location inspired him to paint landscapes in the style of the Hudson River School of artists. He also painted large landscapes with native American themes in the style of Albert Bierstadt, a 19th-century artist noted for his sweeping paintings of the American West. Nemethy's paintings attracted the attention of the West Point Museum, which commissioned him to paint historical battle scenes and restore older paintings in their collection.

He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1993 and later lost vision in one of his eyes until it was successfully operated on. After a partial recovery, he undertook painting a series of works based on the Ten Commandments, four of which were reprinted by the United Nations. The subject was close to his heart, he admits: "People are always asking things from God. I think that is shameful. I say you have nothing but to give thanks to God every day and every minute...That is why the Ten Commandments are so important."