Artist Birthdays October 7 – JOHN WHITE ALEXANDER

JOHN WHITE ALEXANDER (Oct. 7, 1856 – May 31, 1915)

• Nationality: American
• Field: Painting, illustration
• Art Movement: Symbolism
• ARTiFact: In 1875 he began his career in New York as a political cartoonist and illustrator for Harper’s Weekly.
• Artist Quote: “I have all sorts of crazy notions about getting down closer and closer to my work and even shutting myself up in some place in the woods and be a sort of Thoreau in art.”
• Notable Artwork (shown below):  Repose, 1895.

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