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1908/09 Dunfermline, Scotland - 1990 Ridgefield, Connecticut. Known for: Illustration-genre, abstraction.
The following Information was supplied by family members:. "Painting should always have some mystery about it.". Alexander Sharpe Ross. Ross was a leading American illustrator in the 50s and 60s,... Read full biography
The following Information was supplied by family members:. "Painting should always have some mystery about it.". Alexander Sharpe Ross. Ross was a leading American illustrator in the 50s and 60s, with his work on the covers of Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal and... Read full biography
The following Information was supplied by family members:. "Painting should always have some mystery about it.". Alexander Sharpe Ross. Ross was a leading American illustrator in the 50s and 60s, with his work on the covers of Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal and Colliers. Along with a handful of key illustrators Coby Whitmore, John Whitcomb, Al Parker, Norman Rockwell, Ross helped create an indelible image of Americans in the post WWII decades. In the 1960s, Ross... Read full biography
The following Information was supplied by family members:. "Painting should always have some mystery about it.". Alexander Sharpe Ross. Ross was a leading American illustrator in the 50s and 60s, with his work on the covers of Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal and Colliers. Along with a handful of key illustrators Coby Whitmore, John Whitcomb, Al Parker, Norman Rockwell, Ross helped create an indelible image of Americans in the post WWII decades. In the 1960s, Ross moved dramatically into the fine arts painting abstracts, surrealists, portraits, always seeking new technique. "Inventive Realism" he called it when pressed for nomenclature, and explained, "My subjects are mainly flowers and dreamlike human figures.... Read full biography
The following Information was supplied by family members:. "Painting should always have some mystery about it.". Alexander Sharpe Ross. Ross was a leading American illustrator in the 50s and 60s, with his work on the covers of Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal and Colliers. Along with a handful of key illustrators Coby Whitmore, John Whitcomb, Al Parker, Norman Rockwell, Ross helped create an indelible image of Americans in the post WWII decades. In the 1960s, Ross moved dramatically into the fine arts painting abstracts, surrealists, portraits, always seeking new technique. "Inventive Realism" he called it when pressed for nomenclature, and explained, "My subjects are mainly flowers and dreamlike human figures. Flowers have beautiful shapes that lend themselves to abstraction, and I incorporate new dimensions in them,... Read full biography
