Leonard Alberts was a twentieth-century American figurative painter whose body of work concentrated on the classical mythological subjects of the Western canon, Europa, Actaeon and Diana, the transformation myths of Ovid, placing him within the small twentieth-century American cohort committed to keeping the figural and mythological tradition alive.
Leonard Alberts (1924–2010) was an American figurative painter active across the second half of the twentieth century, best known for paintings drawn from classical mythology and the Western literary and biblical tradition. His subjects included canonical scenes from Greek and Roman mythology, Europa and the Bull, Actaeon and Diana, the transformation myths of Ovid, as well as biblical subjects such as Adam and Eve and the long figural tradition of the Mother and Child.
His paintings have continued to circulate through American auction houses and figurative-painting collections in the years since his death. Documentation of his early training, exhibition history, and institutional affiliations in published English-language sources is limited, and his career belongs to the smaller current of mid- and late-twentieth-century American figurative painters working against the dominant abstract idioms of the period.