John White Alexander

This e-book is a collection with 73 Masterpieces from John White Alexander formatted for the e-readers, with descriptions, dates and Table of Contents.
John White Alexander (1856 –1915) began his career in New York in 1875 as a political cartoonist and illustrator. In 1877 he went to Paris for his first formal art training, and then to Munich. His first exhibition in the Paris Salon of 1893 was a brilliant success. By 1894 his reputation in both Europe and America had soared. Alexander's stylistic development falls into several distinct stages. His early landscapes and genre scenes of the 1870s bear the stamp of realism. After his return to the USA in 1881, he favored a more limited palette and experimented with the suggestion of mood through shadow and gesture. Many of his later portraits, notably of women, were psychological studies rather than specific likenesses.