A Study in Pink (Primary Title)
Portrait Study in Pink (The Pink Gown) (Alternate Title)
John White Alexander, American, 1856–1915 (Artist)
As an American artist living in Paris during the 1890s, John White Alexander was an avid enthusiast of the Art Nouveau movement, which emphasized natural forms and curving lines, as can be seen in the drape of the figure’s dress in A Study in Pink. The artist has also unconventionally ground the pigments of his paint into the fabric of the coarsely woven canvas so that it is visible throughout. The sensation of touch is evoked in the movement of the woman’s hand, the immediacy almost tangible in the artist’s brushstrokes and thickness of the canvas weave.
Gilded Age; Impressionism
Signed and dated, lower right: J.W. Alexander '96
J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art and partial gift of Juliana Terian Gilbert in memory of Peter G. Terian
2017-2019: "Clarence White and HIs World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925", Princeton University Art Museum, October 7, 2017 - January 7, 2018; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, February 7 - June 2, 2018; Portland Museum of Art, June 22 - September 16, 2018; Cleveland Museum of Art, October 21, 2018 - January 21, 2019.
John White Alexander (1856-1915) Fin-de-Siecle American, Graham Gallery, October 21
-December 13, 1980
National Academy of Design Special Exhibition of 1939, no. 174, New York
[Copenhagen, 1896; Vienna, 1898]
Exposition Nationale des Beaux-Arts, no. 8, Paris
Salon du Champ-de-Mars, Paris, 1896
John White Alexander (1856-1915) Fin-de-Siecle American, Graham Gallery, October 21
-December 13, 1980
National Academy of Design Special Exhibition of 1939, no. 174, New York
[Copenhagen, 1896; Vienna, 1898]
Exposition Nationale des Beaux-Arts, no. 8, Paris
Salon du Champ-de-Mars, Paris, 1896
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