Born in Birmingham, England, Albert Swinden, American (1901-1961) moved to Chicago at the age of eighteen to study at the Art Institute. In the mid-1920s, he moved to New York where he studied at the National Academy of Design and the Arts Student League of NY. He was a student of famed Abstract Expressionist artist Hans Hofmann (German, 1880-1966), and as a result, developed a strong interest in Synthetic Cubism and Neoplasticism, a movement made popular in the 1910s by artist Piet Mondrian. Typically recognized for his abstract style, he was a founder of American Abstract Artists.
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