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1849 Dorchester, Massachusetts - 1924. Known for: Dogs, still life, wildlife and trompe l'oeil doors-painting.
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, near Boston, Alexander Pope became known as a society painter who spent his entire life in the Boston area with a major interest in hunting and fishing and painting... Read full biography
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, near Boston, Alexander Pope became known as a society painter who spent his entire life in the Boston area with a major interest in hunting and fishing and painting and sculpting art objects of those subjects. According to Alfred Frankenstein in his book, The... Read full biography
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, near Boston, Alexander Pope became known as a society painter who spent his entire life in the Boston area with a major interest in hunting and fishing and painting and sculpting art objects of those subjects. According to Alfred Frankenstein in his book, The Reality of Appearance, Pope was "of the back-slapping, club-going variety who spent his entire life in and around Boston." . Some of his paintings were trompe l'oeil still lifes with hunting themes and... Read full biography
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, near Boston, Alexander Pope became known as a society painter who spent his entire life in the Boston area with a major interest in hunting and fishing and painting and sculpting art objects of those subjects. According to Alfred Frankenstein in his book, The Reality of Appearance, Pope was "of the back-slapping, club-going variety who spent his entire life in and around Boston." . Some of his paintings were trompe l'oeil still lifes with hunting themes and iconography that included deer antlers, canteen, gun, game bag, etc. In this same style, he also painted a lot of dead animal subjects and sometimes live animals, usually in crates. As a child he worked at his father's lumber business and carved... Read full biography
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, near Boston, Alexander Pope became known as a society painter who spent his entire life in the Boston area with a major interest in hunting and fishing and painting and sculpting art objects of those subjects. According to Alfred Frankenstein in his book, The Reality of Appearance, Pope was "of the back-slapping, club-going variety who spent his entire life in and around Boston." . Some of his paintings were trompe l'oeil still lifes with hunting themes and iconography that included deer antlers, canteen, gun, game bag, etc. In this same style, he also painted a lot of dead animal subjects and sometimes live animals, usually in crates. As a child he worked at his father's lumber business and carved animals out of wood. He studied briefly with Walter Rimmer, Boston painter and sculptor, but primarily was self taught. In the 1880s, he stopped... Read full biography
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Keywords (35)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Miniature Art
- •Miniature, Small Scale Painting
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Trompe l'oeil
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
- •Dogs, Dog Portraits
- •Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Outdoor Sporting Scenes, Field and Stream, Hunting
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
- •Waterfowl
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Boston Before 1900
Art Association
- •Boston Art Club
- •Copley Society of Boston-
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Anschutz Collection
Added Description
- •Animal Specialty
- •Miniature Specialty
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
- •Still Life Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts