An American Impressionist*, Alexande Bower was born in New York, studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art*, and was living with his wife in Cliff Island, Maine by 1914. Despite his urban upbringing, the coast and the sea fascinated Bower. A large portion of his paintings are seascapes, particularly scenes depicting the coast of Cape Elizabeth and Cliff Island, Maine.

Bower was a member of the Salmagundi Club*, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club*, and the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, as well as being an associate member of the National Academy of Design*.

He exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

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