Born Albert Lee Zeigler on May 7th, 1868 in Baltimore, Maryland to Daniel and Laura Woodward Zeigler. He was a self-taught artist and went on to study at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he graduated in 1885. After serving as director of the St. Paul Institute of Art in Minnesota, he returned to the East Coast and began painting murals. For a time, he was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.
Most of his work was freelance, and his local murals can still be seen at St. Thomas Episcopal Church and Newburgh Free Academy. The church mural features martyrs, saints and angels while the school auditorium mural features commedia dell'arte figures meant to represent music and drama. He also painted murals for the WPA.
One of his greatest works was an eighteen-panel mural at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, titled "The Faerie Queene," depicting scenes from Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic poem of the same name. At the mural's completion in 1945, it was considered the largest library mural in the country. Zeigler had a life-long interest in medieval art and poetry, reflected in this work. He was a member of the Medieval Academy of America.
Most of his work was freelance, and his local murals can still be seen at St. Thomas Episcopal Church and Newburgh Free Academy. The church mural features martyrs, saints and angels while the school auditorium mural features commedia dell'arte figures meant to represent music and drama. He also painted murals for the WPA.
One of his greatest works was an eighteen-panel mural at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, titled "The Faerie Queene," depicting scenes from Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic poem of the same name. At the mural's completion in 1945, it was considered the largest library mural in the country. Zeigler had a life-long interest in medieval art and poetry, reflected in this work. He was a member of the Medieval Academy of America.
Born Albert Lee Zeigler on May 7th, 1868 in Baltimore, Maryland to Daniel and Laura Woodward Zeigler. He was a self-taught artist and went on to study at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he graduated in 1885. After serving as director of the St. Paul Institute of Art in Minnesota, he returned to the East Coast and began painting murals. For a time, he was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.
Most of his work was freelance, and his local murals can still be seen at St. Thomas Episcopal Church and Newburgh Free Academy. The church mural features martyrs, saints and angels while the school auditorium mural features commedia dell'arte figures meant to represent music and drama. He also painted murals for the WPA.
One of his greatest works was an eighteen-panel mural at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, titled "The Faerie Queene," depicting scenes from Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic poem of the same name. At the mural's completion in 1945, it was considered the largest library mural in the country. Zeigler had a life-long interest in medieval art and poetry, reflected in this work. He was a member of the Medieval Academy of America.
Most of his work was freelance, and his local murals can still be seen at St. Thomas Episcopal Church and Newburgh Free Academy. The church mural features martyrs, saints and angels while the school auditorium mural features commedia dell'arte figures meant to represent music and drama. He also painted murals for the WPA.
One of his greatest works was an eighteen-panel mural at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, titled "The Faerie Queene," depicting scenes from Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic poem of the same name. At the mural's completion in 1945, it was considered the largest library mural in the country. Zeigler had a life-long interest in medieval art and poetry, reflected in this work. He was a member of the Medieval Academy of America.
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