Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas (Austin)
200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd,
Austin, TX 78712-0338
Austin, TX 78712-0338
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Museums page for John Alexander ((Born 1945)), known for Modernist-leaning landscape, surreal images. Showing 7 museum collections and exhibitions.
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Born 1945 Beaumont, Texas. Known for: Modernist-leaning landscape, surreal images.
John Alexander, whose abstract work tends towards Surrealism, was born in Beaumont, Texas on October 26, 1945. He grew up in eastern Texas and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Lamar University... Read full biography
John Alexander, whose abstract work tends towards Surrealism, was born in Beaumont, Texas on October 26, 1945. He grew up in eastern Texas and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Lamar University and his Master of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University. He has been called "a master of... Read full biography
John Alexander, whose abstract work tends towards Surrealism, was born in Beaumont, Texas on October 26, 1945. He grew up in eastern Texas and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Lamar University and his Master of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University. He has been called "a master of darkness and depth" because of his grim-seeming palette relieved only by the light from a sickly sulfurous glow. Alexander served as Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Houston in 1971. He... Read full biography
John Alexander, whose abstract work tends towards Surrealism, was born in Beaumont, Texas on October 26, 1945. He grew up in eastern Texas and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Lamar University and his Master of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University. He has been called "a master of darkness and depth" because of his grim-seeming palette relieved only by the light from a sickly sulfurous glow. Alexander served as Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Houston in 1971. He moved to New York City in 1979. Since then, he has largely split his output into two distinct genres: caustic satirical portraits and profuse, vaguely menacing landscapes. He maintains a studio in Amagansett, Long Island. Among the artists he... Read full biography
John Alexander, whose abstract work tends towards Surrealism, was born in Beaumont, Texas on October 26, 1945. He grew up in eastern Texas and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Lamar University and his Master of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University. He has been called "a master of darkness and depth" because of his grim-seeming palette relieved only by the light from a sickly sulfurous glow. Alexander served as Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Houston in 1971. He moved to New York City in 1979. Since then, he has largely split his output into two distinct genres: caustic satirical portraits and profuse, vaguely menacing landscapes. He maintains a studio in Amagansett, Long Island. Among the artists he especially admires are Claude Monet, Antonio Lopez Garcia and Lucien Freud. Courtesy of Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from L... Read full biography
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About John Alexander: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (7)
All MuseumsMeadows Museum, SMU
Smu: 5900 Bishop Boulevard
Po Box 750357 (Bishop Blvd/Binkley) (Bishop Blvd/Binkley) (Bishop Blvd/Binkley)
Dallas, TX 75275-0357Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
1934 Poplar Avenue, Overton Park
Memphis, TN 38104-2765Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Edinburgh, United KingdomThe Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
401 Museum Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21741-0423Weisman Art Museum
The University of Minnesota
333 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455