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Albert Duvall Quigley (1891 - 1961) American - Albert Duvall Quigley (1891 - 1961) Oil on artist board , Signed , measures 24” x 20” , w/frame 30” x 24” Albert Duvall Quigley moved to Nelson, New Hampshire, in 1934, when he was 43 years old, and created the vast majority of his work in this northern New England hill town. He lived there with his wife, Mildred, and their three children, Terrence, Tami, and Barnabas, until his death in 1961. Though his paintings, which were mostly in oil, have never received distinctive formal recognition, they were and are regarded as wonderful representations of the Monadnock region and the people within it. Albert Quigley, known affectionately as “Quig, ” was born in 1891 in Frankfort, Maine, a small village on the shore of the Penobscot River. As a young man, Quig, the son of a stonecutter, not only learned the art of stonecutting at the local quarry but he also taught himself to play the violin and learned to repair old fiddles from his neighbor, a violinmaker by trade. Condition: Good Condition