Albert & Maxine Boyd Biography

Albert & Maxine Boyd

1911-2007

Biography

American artists Albert and Maxine Boyd were a married couple who worked together on silkscreens and tapestries in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

Maxine Boyd (nee Heasley, 1911 - 2007) was a painter, printmaker, and weaver who worked as an inker and painter for Walt Disney beginning in 1936, and went on to teach English as a second language. She was born in Glendale, California, on March 3, 1911. She was a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles and was an avid traveler, finding artistic inspiration in her trips to Peru, Nepal, Spain, and China. She died in Newport, New Hampshire on May 26, 2007.

Albert T. Boyd was born in Philadelphia, PA (exact date not found), and attended the Art Students League of New York in his youth. At some point he relocated to Southern California, where he met and married Maxine. He was a printmaker, designer, and woodcarver, and he and Maxine designed several works for St. Andrews Episcopal Chuch in New London, New Hampshire, among them a wooden altar and several hanging tapestries. They opened Boyd Handprints in Andover in 1957, creating liturgical screenprints. 
Albert died in Greenfield, Massachusetts, on February 4, 1965.