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词条 John White Alexander
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Training

  3. Family

  4. Works

  5. Gallery

  6. Awards and honors

  7. References

  8. External links

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John White Alexander (7 October 1856 – 31 May 1915) was an American portrait, figure, and decorative painter and illustrator.

Early life

Alexander was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now a part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Orphaned in infancy, he was reared by his grandparents and, at the age of 12, became a telegraph boy in Pittsburgh. Edward J. Allen became an early supporter and patron of John W. Alexander, adopting the orphaned Alexander while he worked at the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Co. as a young man.[1] Allen brought Alexander to the Allen home at "Edgehill" where Alexander painted various members of the Allen family, including Colonel Allen. His talent at drawing attracted the attention of one of his employers, who assisted him to develop them.[2]

Training

He moved to New York City at the age of eighteen and worked in an office at Harper's Weekly, where he was an illustrator and political cartoonist at the same time that Abbey, Pennell, Pyle, and other celebrated illustrators labored there. After an apprenticeship of three years, he travelled to Munich for his first formal training. Owing to the lack of funds, he removed to the village of Polling, Bavaria, and worked with Frank Duveneck. They travelled to Venice, where he profited by the advice of Whistler, and then he continued his studies in Florence, the Netherlands, and Paris.

In 1881 he returned to New York and speedily achieved great success in portraiture, numbering among his sitters Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Burroughs, Henry G. Marquand, R. A. L. Stevenson, and president McCosh of Princeton University.

Family

Alexander was married to Elizabeth Alexander Alexander, to whom he was introduced in part because of their shared last name. Elizabeth was the daughter of James Waddell Alexander, President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society at the time of the Hyde Ball scandal. The Alexanders had one child, the mathematician James Waddell Alexander II.

Works

Many of his paintings are in museums and public places in the United States and in Europe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Butler Institute, and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. In addition, in the entrance hall to the Art Museum of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, a series of Alexander's murals entitled "Apotheosis of Pittsburgh" (1905–1907) covers the walls of the three-storey atrium area.

Alexander's Artist Proof of his portrait of Whitman, signed by the artist in April 1911, is in the Walt Whitman Collection at the University of Pennsylvania.

Gallery

Awards and honors

His first exhibition in the Paris Salon of 1893 was a brilliant success and was followed by his immediate election to the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts. Many additional honors were bestowed on him. In 1889 he painted for Mrs. Jeremiah Milbank a well-received portrait of Walt Whitman and one of her husband, Jeremiah Milbank. In 1901 he was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and in 1902 he became a member of the National Academy of Design, where he served as President from 1909–1915. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and President of the National Society of Mural Painters. Among the gold medals received by him were those of the Paris Exposition (1900) and the World's Fair at St. Louis (1904).

He served as President of the National Society of Mural Painters from 1914 to 1915.[3]

John White Alexander died in New York on 31 May 1915.

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Hervey Allen Papers |url=http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=ascead;cc=ascead;q1=1952.01;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-PPiU-sc195201 |archive-url=https://archive.is/20140602192003/http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=ascead;cc=ascead;q1=1952.01;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-PPiU-sc195201 |dead-url=yes |archive-date=2 June 2014 |website=University Library System, University of Pittsburgh |accessdate=4 March 2015 }}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Hervey Allen Papers |url=http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=ascead;cc=ascead;q1=1952.01;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-PPiU-sc195201 |archive-url=https://archive.is/20140602192003/http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=ascead;cc=ascead;q1=1952.01;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-PPiU-sc195201 |dead-url=yes |archive-date=2 June 2014 |website=University Library System, University of Pittsburgh |accessdate=4 March 2015 }}
3. ^http://nationalsocietyofmuralpainters.com

External links

{{Commons|John White Alexander}}
  • John White Alexander at American Art Gallery
  • [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/john-white-alexander-papers-8637/more-information A Finding Aid to the John White Alexander papers, 1775–1968, bulk 1870–1915 in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution]
  • John White Alexander at Artcyclopedia
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=slBIyd9DNaQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity: Cosmopolitan American Art, 1880–1915 by Sarah J. Moore]
  • [https://archive.is/20140602192003/http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=ascead;cc=ascead;q1=1952.01;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-PPiU-sc195201 Hervey Allen Papers]
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