Dewey Albinson

Ernest Dewey Albinson (March 9, 1898 in Minneapolis, Minnesota – 1971 in Jalisco, Mexico) was an American artist. Minnesota historian Theodore Christian Blegen called him "a gifted painter of North Shore scenes."

Early life and education Albinson was the son of Swedish immigrant parents.

He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1919, and at the Art Students League on a scholarship. He lived in France from 1923 to 1925. He was a project director for the Minnesota State Department of Education, from 1935 to 1937. He painted murals for post offices in Cloquet, Minnesota, and Marquette, Michigan. He was president of the Minnesota Art Association from 1937 to 1938. From 1939 to 1941, he lived in Quebec. One frequent subject was a gnarled cedar tree on the lakeshore, known by local Indians as "Spirit Little Cedar Tree." Albinson, however, titled his first painting in his series Witch Tree, and so it has also become known by that name.

After returning to Minnesota, he moved to Stockton, New Jersey (to live near his friend, painter B.J.O. Nordfeldt), and finally to Nayarit, Jalisco, Mexico in 1953. San Diego Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and Frederick R Weisman Art Museum.