Alberta Kinsey (1875-1955?)
Alberta Kinsey was an art instructor at the Lebanon University in Lebanon, Ohio. She studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Art Institute of Chicago. She moved from Ohio to the French Quarter in New Orleans and lived there for more than thirty years. In New Orleans she worked with Ellsworth Woodward and she is said to have inspired an artist colony there. She is known best for her directly stated, semi-primitive paintings of patios, courtyards and historic buildings. She taught at the Delgado Museum of Art (now the New Orleans Museum of Art).