“Isabella and the Pot of Basil”, oil on canvas, 1897, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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John White Alexander (7 October 1856 – 31 May 1915) was an American portrait, figure, and decorative painter and illustrator. Events 3761 BC - The epoch (origin of the modern Hebrew calendar ( Proleptic Julian calendar) Year 1856 ( MDCCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great (19th dynasty becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e For the vector -based drawing program by Adobe Systems, see Adobe Illustrator.

Biography

Alexander was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now a part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There is also Allegheny County and several Allegheny Townships in Pennsylvania Orphaned in infancy, he was reared by his grandparents and at the age of 12 became a telegraph boy in Pittsburgh. His talent at drawing attracted the attention of one of his employers, who assisted him to develop them. He moved to New York 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. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Harper's Weekly ( A Journal of Civilization) was an American political Magazine based in New York City. Edwin Austin Abbey ( April 1, 1852 &ndash August 1, 1911) was an American Artist, illustrator, and painter Joseph Pennell ( July 4, 1857 &ndash April 23, 1926) was an American artist and author Howard Pyle ( March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American Illustrator and writer primarily of books for young audiences After an apprenticeship of three years, he travelled to Munich for his first formal training. Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Owing to the lack of funds, he removed to the village of Polling, Bavaria, and worked with Frank Duveneck. Frank Duveneck ( October 9, 1848 &ndash January 3, 1919) was an American figure and portrait painter They travelled to Venice, where he profited by the advice of Whistler, and then he continued his studies in Florence, the Netherlands, and Paris. Florence ( Italian: Firenze Florentia and Fiorenza) is the Capital City of the Italian region of Tuscany The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city

In 1881 he returned to New York and speedily achieved great success in portraiture, numbering among his sitters Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Burroughs, Walt Whitman, Henry G. Marquand, R. A. L. Stevenson, and president McCosh of Princeton University. The City of New York Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men father and son Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr John Burroughs ( April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and Essayist important in the evolution Walter Whitman (May 31 1819 &ndash March 26 1892 was an American poet, Essayist journalist, and humanist. Henry Gurdon Marquand (1819-1902 American Philanthropist and collector was born in New York City on 11 April 1819. Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (1847-1900 was a Scottish art critic a cousin of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson. James McCosh ( April 1 1811 &ndash November 16 1894) was a prominent philosopher of the Scottish School of Common Sense. 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. The Salon (Salon or rarely Paris Salon (French Salon de Paris) beginning in 1725 was the official Art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts ( SNBA) was the term under which two groups of French artists united the first for some exhibitions in the early 1860s the second since 1890 Many additional honors were bestowed on him. In 1901 he was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and in 1902 he became a member of the National Academy of Design. Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting The National Academy of Design, in New York City, now called simply The National Academy is an honorary association of American Artists with a Museum He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member organization whose goal is to "foster assist and sustain excellence" in American Literature, Among the gold medals received by him were those of the Paris Exposition (1900) and the World's Fair at St. Louis (1904). The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a World's fair held in Paris, France, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the Saint Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St

Many examples of his paintings are on display 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. Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU) is a private Research University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United

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. James Waddell Alexander II ( September 19, 1888 – September 23, 1971) was an important Topologist of the pre-WWII era and part of

Alexander's original and highly individual art is based upon a very personal interpretation of humanity. He died in New York.

External links

• John White Alexander at Artcyclopedia

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