Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where he had first-hand knowledge of the tough life of steel workers, John White Alexander became one of the most prominent, fashionable artists in New York City... Read full biography
Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where he had first-hand knowledge of the tough life of steel workers, John White Alexander became one of the most prominent, fashionable artists in New York City during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He did portrait, figure, and mural work and is especially... Read full biography
Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where he had first-hand knowledge of the tough life of steel workers, John White Alexander became one of the most prominent, fashionable artists in New York City during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He did portrait, figure, and mural work and is especially noted for female subjects, which he rendered with fluid, sweeping lines and "an almost abstract, decorative rhythm of shape with a graceful and voluptuous expressiveness" (Baigell "Dictionary" 8). As... Read full biography
Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where he had first-hand knowledge of the tough life of steel workers, John White Alexander became one of the most prominent, fashionable artists in New York City during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He did portrait, figure, and mural work and is especially noted for female subjects, which he rendered with fluid, sweeping lines and "an almost abstract, decorative rhythm of shape with a graceful and voluptuous expressiveness" (Baigell "Dictionary" 8). As a young man, he worked as a telegraph messenger boy but soon was discovered as a talented illustrator. He began his career working in the Art Department of "Harper's Weekly" as a political cartoonist and illustrator. The 1877 Pittsburgh strike was a... Read full biography
Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where he had first-hand knowledge of the tough life of steel workers, John White Alexander became one of the most prominent, fashionable artists in New York City during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He did portrait, figure, and mural work and is especially noted for female subjects, which he rendered with fluid, sweeping lines and "an almost abstract, decorative rhythm of shape with a graceful and voluptuous expressiveness" (Baigell "Dictionary" 8). As a young man, he worked as a telegraph messenger boy but soon was discovered as a talented illustrator. He began his career working in the Art Department of "Harper's Weekly" as a political cartoonist and illustrator. The 1877 Pittsburgh strike was a special focus. As a part of his assignments he did field work in New Orleans in 1881, and in 1883 was sent to Yellowstone to capture the beauty... Read full biography
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A History of American Tonalism
2010
Cleveland, David Adams
592 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
American Paintings from the Hainsworth Collection
2005
Love, Richard; Michael Worley, Ph.D
157 pages (color)
Fine American Art from 1845 to 1960 (Spanierman Gallery, LLC (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Reis, Mary Clare; Lisa N. Peters et all
0 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Beal, Graham
128 pages (color)
Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park
2002
Hassrick, Peter H
248 pages (color)
American Paintings: 1860-1940
2000
Greer, Gina; Andrea Smith
0 pages
The Gilded Edge
2000
Wilner, Eli et al
0 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
The Cornish Colony: One Hundred Year Celebration Exhibit (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Gilbert, Alma; James Atkinson
52 pages
Inventing the Modern Artist Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
1996
Burns, Sarah
380 pages
Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire
1996
Colby, Virginia Reed; James B. Atkinson
526 pages
California Impressionists (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Landauer, Susan; Donald D. Keyes and Jean Stern
103 pages (color)
Art and the Higher Life Painting and Evolutionary Thought*
1996
Pyne, Kathleen
416 pages (color)
Angels of Art Women and Art in American Society 1876-1914
1996
Van Hook, Bailey
287 pages
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
American Selections 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Lublin, Mary
163 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
America in Art Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
112 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Americans and Paris (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Marlais, Michael Andrew
62 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
American Paintings V 1988
1988
Berry-Hill Galleries
180 pages (color)
Idle Hours Americans at Leisure 1865-1914
1988
Pisano, Ronald G
155 pages (color)
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Transformations 1885-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Preato, Robert R.; Dr. Sandra L. Langer
104 pages (color)
A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art
1987
Neff, Terry (editor)
300 pages (color)
An American Gallery Spring 1987 (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Richard York Gallery
50 pages (color)
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 pages (color)
Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1986
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
148 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Masterpieces of American Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1986
Salinger, Margaretta
200 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all
314 pages (color)
American Masterworks on Paper: Drawings, Watercolors and Prints (Hirschl & Adler Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Dreishpoon, Douglas (essay)
63 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
A Circle of Friends Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin (Exhibition catalog)
1985
New Hampshire, U of
138 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
1984
Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)
88 pages (color)
The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Detroit Institute of the Arts
272 pages (color)
Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Ministere de la Culture
378 pages (color)
Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design (Exhibition catalog)
1983
National Academy of Design
175 pages (color)
A New World Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Stebbins, Theodore E; Pierre Rosenberg, H. Barbara Weinberg (essays)
351 pages (color)
Tonalism An American Experience (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Gerdts, William H (others)
94 pages (color)
Americans in Brittany and Normand 1868-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Sellin, David / J K Ballinger
229 pages (color)
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts
228 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64
1980
Burke, Doreen Bolger
479 pages
John White Alexander 1856-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Leff, Sandra
48 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Imagination and Symbolist Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eldredge, Charles C
176 pages (color)
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
1978
Fink, Lois Marie
62 pages (color)
The New Muses Art in American Culture 1865-1920
1978
Morgan, H Wayne
232 pages (color)
Representative Works of Contemporary American Artists
1978
Trumble, Alfred
139 pages
Munich and American Realism in the 19th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1978
West, Richard V
127 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Hills, Patricia
194 pages (color)
American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930
1977
Rhode Island School of Design
241 pages
John White Alexander (1856-1915) (National Collection of Fine Arts) (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Goley, Mary Ann
0 pages (color)
American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (The Dayton Art Institute) (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Quick, Michael
158 pages (color)
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor
272 pages
A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975 (Exhibition catalog)
1975
National Academy of Design
262 pages
Revealed Masters 19th Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Gerdts, William H
152 pages (color)
The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago