 Alberti Lamb Spratt is primarily known as Agnes Alberta Spratt Lamb Willson
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Biography from Trotter Galleries:
| Prominent San Francisco and early Carmel modernist, Agnes Albert Willson was a painter, lithographer, illustrator, and muralist, who owed much of her early encouragement and guidance to Blanding Sloan.
Painting in oil, tempera, and watercolor, she specialized in horticultural illustrations, and also did landscape and portrait paintings.
Born near Gilroy, California, Alberte Willson was first the wife of Wm Spratt. She studied at the California School of Fine Art and College of Pacific in Stockton. She was the art editor of the Carmelite newspaper in the late 1920s.
During the 1930s she was a resident of Los Angeles and, as an employee of the Federal Art Project, did a series of horticultural illustrations. Divorced, she later became the wife of engineer Richard Lamb. She accompanied her husband on work related trips to Mexico, which provided much inspiration for her subject matter. By 1940 she had settled on the Monterey Peninsula where she remained until her death.
Her studio was in Carmel, California
Memberships
Carmel Art Association (Charter); San Francisco Art Association; Oakland Art Association; Oakland Art League.
Exhibitions:
East-West Gallery of Fine Arts (San Francisco); Carmel Art Association; The Fiftieth Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the California School of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco Art Association); Oakland Art Gallery; Santa Cruz Art League; Mills College; and also in New York.
Work: Orinda Country Club (murals); Oakland; Monterey Public Library, and others.
Sources: Artists in California:1786-1940/Hughes; Havlice; Mallett Supplement; WWAA 1940-1941; Artists of the American West/Dawdy, Volume II; Publications in Southern California Art/Moure; Carmel Art Association: A History/McGlynn; The Argus/1927; California Arts and Architecture list/1932; The Carmelite/1928.
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