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Josephine Patterson Albright

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Josephine Patterson Albright
Portrait of Josephine Patterson Albright by Ivan Albright, 1978–1979
Portrait of Josephine Patterson Albright by Ivan Albright, 1978–1979
Born
Josephine Medill Patterson

(1913-12-02)December 2, 1913
Libertyville, Illinois
DiedJanuary 15, 1996(1996-01-15) (aged 82)
Woodstock, Vermont
OccupationJournalist, philanthropist

Josephine Medill Patterson Albright (December 2, 1913 – January 15, 1996) was an American journalist.

Life

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Alica (left) and Josephine (right) Patterson at Catalina Island, 1932

Josephine Medill Patterson was born on December 2, 1913, in Libertyville, Illinois to father Joseph Medill Patterson (publisher of the New York Daily News) and mother Alice Higinbotham. She was the younger sister of Elinor and Alicia, older half-sister of James, niece of Cissy Patterson, and great-granddaughter of Joseph Medill and Robert W. Patterson.

At age four, Josephine's picture was featured in a Liberty war bonds advertisement in the Chicago Tribune, having participated in a meeting at a Marshall Field's store where she read a poem in support of her father, who was serving the army in France.[1] She also spoke and presented flowers to veterans at a Tribune war correspondent reception.[2] When Albright was 16 years old she earned her transport pilot's license. At 19 she made her formal society debut with a dinner and a ball at the Blackstone Hotel thrown by her parents.[3][4][5] In summer of 1933 Josephine journeyed to Murray Bay, Canada to learn about paper production.[6] After a short career as a commercial pilot she traveled to India with her sister, Alicia Patterson, to hunt wild animals.[7][8]

Albright's journalism career began with her reporting for the Chicago Daily News from 1934 to 1936. She left journalism to run a dairy and pig farm in Lake County, Illinois, that later became the Hawthorn-Mellody Dairy. On June 22, 1936 Josephine married Chicago lawyer Jay Frederick Reeve, a trial lawyer and World War I veteran pilot who had divorced his first wife, Louise Falk, with whom he had two children, the same month in Reno, Nevada.[9][10] Josephine and Reeve had a son, Joseph, and daughter, Alice, by 1940.[11] The family temporarily moved to Palm Beach, Florida, while Reeve studied at the United States Air Force Academy.[12] The couple divorced in July 1944, with Reeve charged with cruelty for repeatedly striking his wife. Josephine was awarded custody of their two children,[13] and Reeve remarried his ex-wife Louise less than two weeks later.[10] Albright then raised and bred horses while living with her children at a ranch in Dubois, Wyoming.[14][15]

In August 1946 she married the Chicago School artist Ivan Albright at Red Lodge, Montana, with only two witnesses, Ivan's twin brother Malvin Albright and Josephine's older sister Alicia.[15] As a wedding gift, Ivan gave Josephine his first major artwork, "That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do," which had won the Temple Gold Metal at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1942 and was valued at $125,000 in 1945 (over $2,000,000 adjusted for inflation).[16][15] Ivan Albright also painted a portrait of her father Joseph Medill Patterson that was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago.[17] In August 1947 Ivan and Josephine had a son, Adam, and in May 1949 a daughter, Blandina.[18][19]

Josephine with her daughter Alice and Frederick A. Sweet, Curator, 1964

In 1949 Albright began writing a weekly column for Newsday, "Life With Junior." The column was about her life raising four children.[20] The Albrights moved to Woodstock, Vermont in 1963. Around that time Albright earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.[7][8]

Albright helped to establish the Alicia Patterson Foundation in honor of her deceased sister Alicia. The foundation is a journalism fellowship program that is still in existence.[21][8]

Ivan Albright produced several portraits of his wife. Castings of his 1954 bronze are in the Art Institute of Chicago[22] and the Tate.[23] A 1978 etching is in the Hood Museum of Art.[24] Josephine Albright died of a stroke on January 15, 1996, in Woodstock, Vermont.[7][25]

References

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  1. ↑ "Youthful Loan Boosters". Chicago Tribune. May 2, 1918. p. 5.
  2. ↑ "Home Folk See Floyd Gibbons Get War Medal, Notables of State and City Honor Wounded "Tribune" Man". Chicago Tribune. September 28, 1918. p. 5.
  3. ↑ "Luncheon for Three Debutantes". Chicago Tribune. December 17, 1932. p. 17.
  4. ↑ "Dinner for Miss Higinbotham". Chicago Tribune. December 29, 1932. p. 9.
  5. ↑ "Two Important Parties Tonight". Chicago Tribune. December 30, 1932. p. 15.
  6. ↑ "Polo is Big Interest of Society for Week-End of Many Activities". Chicago Tribune. August 12, 1933. p. 11.
  7. 1 2 3 "Josephine Patterson Albright, Journalist". Chicago Tribune. January 18, 1996. Archived from the original on November 7, 2024. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
  8. 1 2 3 Gelder, Lawrence Van (January 18, 1996). "Josephine Patterson Albright, Colorful Journalist, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Josephine Patterson Becomes Bride of Jay Frederick Reeve". Chicago Tribune. June 22, 1936. p. 17.
  10. 1 2 "Divorced Wife and J.F. Reeve Will Remarry". Chicago Tribune. July 27, 1944. p. 11.
  11. ↑ "Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Reeve are Parents of Daughter". Chicago Tribune. November 7, 1940. p. 19.
  12. ↑ "Many Houses Remain Unopened, but Palm Beach Activities are in Full Swing". Chicago Tribune. January 31, 1943. p. 55.
  13. ↑ "Mrs. J.F. Reeve Wins Divorce on Cruelty Charge". July 23, 1944.
  14. ↑ "Josephine Patterson Albright". Chicago Tribune. January 21, 1996. p. 128.
  15. 1 2 3 Cass, Judith (August 28, 1946). "Mrs. Patterson Reeve Bride of Ivan Albright". Chicago Tribune. p. 23.
  16. ↑ "Ivan Albright; his art focused on ironic realism". Chicago Tribune. November 19, 1983. p. 9.
  17. ↑ Barry, Edward (October 30, 1964). "Albright Genius Revealed in Art Institute Exhibition". Chicago Tribune. p. 51.
  18. ↑ "From the Notebook". Chicago Tribune. August 4, 1947. p. 27.
  19. ↑ "Here and There". Chicago Tribune. May 23, 1949. p. 39.
  20. ↑ "Harvey-born artist dies in Vermont". The STAR. November 24, 1983.
  21. ↑ "Alicia Patterson Foundation". Alicia Patterson Foundation. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
  22. ↑ Albright, Ivan (1954). "Josephine Medill Patterson Albright". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
  23. ↑ "'Josephine Medill Paterson Albright', Ivan Albright, 1954". Tate. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
  24. ↑ "Untitled (Woman with Folded Arms, Josephine Patterson Albright)". Hood Museum. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
  25. ↑ "Josephine Patterson Albright, Vermont Certificate of Death." Department of Health. State File No. 96-000563. Via AncestryLibrary.
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