ID 818844
Los 119 | JOHN WHITE ALEXANDER (1856-1915)
A Ray of Sunlight
signed and dated 'J.W. Alexander- 98' (lower right)
oil on canvas
48 x 35 in. (121.9 x 88.9 cm.)
Painted in 1898
Provenance
The Society of Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1904.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1905-56.
Victor Sparks, (possibly) acquired from the above.
Graham Gallery, New York, circa 1980s.
Merton Shapiro, circa mid-1980s.
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Whittle, New York, 1990.
Christie's, New York, 24 May 1995, lot 33, sold by the above.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
Archives of American Art, John White Alexander papers, box 2, folder 10, frames 62, 70; folder 11, frame 24; folder 12, frames 39, 45; folder 13, frame 8; folder 14, frames 5, 13, 15.
"The Academy's Annual Show," Philadelphia Inquirer, January 15, 1899, section 2, p. 6.
Philadelphia Press, January 15, 1899, illustrated.
New York Times, January 15, 1899, illustrated.
Philadelphia Ledger, January 16, 1899.
Boston Advertiser, January 18, 1899.
Philadelphia Record, January 18, 1899
New York Mail & Express, January 19, 1899.
Philadelphia Item, January 20, 1899.
C. Caffin, "Philadelphia-From the Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts," Harper's Weekly, January 28, 1899, p. 92, illustrated.
"The Art Awards," Philadelphia Press, February 5, 1899.
"Awards in Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition," The Philadelphia Times, February 5, 1899, p. 2.
"Art Monstrosities," Philadelphia Item, February 17, 1899.
Artist, New York, February 1899.
Philadelphia Enquirer, February 19, 1899.
Brush and Pencil, February 1899, illustrated.
Sunday Telegraph, London, April 30, 1899.
New York Herald, April 30, 1899.
F. Thiébault-Sisson, "Salle 11," Le Temps, April 30, 1899.
New York Sun, April 30, 1899.
O. Merson, New York Journal, May 1899.
Home Journal, May 1899.
F. Jourdain, Journal du Peuple, May 1, 1899.
H. Rochefort, Paris Herald, May 1, 1899.
Daily Telegraph, Dublin, Ireland, May 1899.
E. Baillet, "Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts," Le Radical, May 1, 1899.
Chronicle, May 1, 1899.
H. Ayaud-Degeorge, "Le Salon de 1899, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts," L'Intransigneant, May 2, 1899.
Le Petit National, May 2, 1899.
Scottsman, May 2, 1899.
B. Guinadeau, "Les Salons à la Sociètè Nationale," L'Aurore, May 3, 1899.
Pictor, Le Monde Elegant, May 4, 1899.
H. Clauzel, La Fronde, May 7, 1899.
St. James Gazette, May 12, 1899.
C.I.B., "The Paris Salons," New York Tribune, May 17, 1899.
Glasgow Herald, May 19, 1899.
R. Strong, New York Times, May 20, 1899.
"Étranger," Le Journal de Genève, May 24, 1899.
St. James Budget, London, May 26, 1899.
“Philadelphia-From the Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,” Harper’s Weekly, vol. 43, May 27, 1899, p. 92, illustrated.
Journal d'Asnières, May 28, 1899.
London World, May 31, 1899.
Moniteur Général de l'Exposition 1900, May 31, 1899.
"Visite aux Salons de Peinture," Revue de la Mode, June 10, 1899.
G. Mourey, “The Art of 1899, Part II, the Paris Salons,” The Studio, vol. 17, no. 75, June 15, 1899, p. 4.
C. le Senne, "La Musique et le Théâtre, L'Exposition des Beaux-Arts," Le Ménestrel, June 18, 1899, p. 195.
Daunville, Revue des Beaux-Arts, July 1, 1899.
H. Franz, La Critique, July 5, 1899.
Verat, Le Journal des Artistes, July 23, 1899.
P. Desjardins, "Les Salons de 1899," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, August 1, 1899, p. 133.
G. Mourey, “An American Painter in Paris: John W. Alexander,” The Studio, London, vol. XX, no. 88, July 1900, p. 76.
G. Mourey, “An American Painter in Paris: John White Alexander,” International Studio, vol. xi, no. 42, August 1900, p. 76.
"John W. Alexander, Posing As A Fine Art," Harper's Bazaar, vol. 34, February 25, 1901, p. 269, illustrated.
"The Society of Artists," New York Times, March 31, 1901, p. 2.
Commercial Advertiser, April 5, 1901.
Town & Country, April 6, 1901.
New York Mail & Express, April 13, 1901, illustrated.
C.H. Caffin, "The Society of American Artists," Harper's Weekly, vol. 45, April 20, 1901, illustrated.
"A Poster Based on 'Ray of Sunlight,' by John W. Alexander," New York Herald, April 28, 1901, illustrated.
"Exhibition of the Fakirs," New York Tribune, April 30, 1901.
New York Times, April 30, 1901.
"How the Fakirs See the Pictures," New York Herald, April 30, 1901.
"Art Fakirs Show Fine Bits of Fakery," New York World, April 30, 1901, illustrated.
“American Studio Talk, Notes on Art in New York,” International Studio, vol. 13, May 1901, p. 220.
Vogue, May 9, 1901.
Commercial Advertiser, June 17, 1901.
"Paintings at the Pan-American," New York Times, July 7, 1901, p. 13.
New York Sun, July 14, 1901.
"Decorative Portraits," Churchman, September 7, 1901.
"J.W. Alexander to Live Here," New York Tribune, October 6, 1901.
"John W. Alexander Here," New York Times, October 6, 1901.
Brooklyn Eagle, October 6, 1901.
Commercial Gazette, October 7, 1901.
Mail & Express, December 28, 1901.
"Lotus Club Exhibition," New York Commercial Advertiser, December 1901.
"Pictures at the Lotus Club," New York Evening Post, December 28, 1901.
G. Mourey, Des Hommes Devant la Nature et la vie, Paris, 1902, p. 183.
"A Group of Portraits by John W. Alexander at Durand-Ruel's Gallery-Notes," Commercial Advertiser, New York, November 25, 1902.
"Fine Arts," Brooklyn Eagle, November 25, 1902.
“Paintings by John W. Alexander,” New York Sun, November 25, 1902.
"Good Art of Alexander," New York Press, November 28, 1902.
"Attractive Portraits," New York Evening Post, November 28, 1902.
"Portraits by John W. Alexander," New York Herald, November 28, 1902.
H. Pene du Bois, "Alexander at Durand-Ruel's," New York Journal, November 28, 1902.
S.S., "Art," Mail & Express, December 1, 1902.
"The Pictures of John W. Alexander," Harper's Weekly, December 13, 1902, p. 1971, illustrated.
News Tribune, Detroit, Michigan, December 21, 1902.
Washington (unknown), February 1903.
"Washington Art," Philadelphia Item, February 16, 1903.
"John W. Alexander," Philadelphia Item, April 3, 1903.
Washington Post, May 24, 1903.
H. Monroe, "John W. Alexander, His Paintings," The House Beautiful, vol. 15, no. 2, January 1904, p. 73, illustrated.
Detroit News, January 7, 1904.
"Alexander Takes the Gold Medal," New York Times, March 5, 1904.
Washington Post, March 6, 1904.
Washington Post, March 20, 1904.
Brooklyn Eagle, October 6, 1904.
Sunday Journal, Providence, Rhode Island, October 30, 1904.
"John W. Alexander," Minneapolis Times, November 6, 1904.
Minneapolis Tribune, November 13, 1904.
E.E. Beard, “The Minneapolis Art Exhibition,” Brush and Pencil, vol. XIV, no. 5, December 1904, p. 341.
Detroit Journal, January 7, 1905.
"Society of Fine Arts Purchases Fine Painting," Minneapolis Tribune, January 8, 1905, illustrated.
"Art and Artists," Minneapolis Times, January 8, 1905.
C.H. Caffin, "John White Alexander, The Painter of Idealized Sentiment, through Portraits of Woman in Poses," World's Work, vol. 9, no. 3, January 9, 1905, p. 5689, illustrated.
Minneapolis Journal, January 14, 1905.
Boston Transcript, January 14, 1905.
"Art and Artists," Minneapolis Times, January 15, 1905.
Boston Globe, January 15, 1905.
Washington Star, January 28, 1905.
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Minneapolis Tribune, February 5, 1905.
Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1905.
Minneapolis Tribune, February 19, 1905.
Newark Advertiser, February 24, 1905.
Pittsburg Independent, February 25, 1905.
C.H. Caffin, "John W. Alexander, An American Artist and His Motive," World's Work and Play, London, vol. 5, no. 28, March 1905, p. 378, illustrated.
Minneapolis Tribune, March 5, 1905.
Journal, April 8, 1905.
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"Items from the Art Museums," Brush and Pencil, vol. xv, no. 4, April 1905, p. 214.
"Exploit Local Art Treasures," Minneapolis Times, October 22, 1905.
J.W. Pattison, The World’s Painters Since Leonardo: Being a History of Painting from the Renaissance to Present Day, New York, 1906, p. 254.
"Alexander's Works Seen in Retrospect," New York Times, February 24, 1909.
"Honored by the Arts Club," New York Times, February 24, 1909.
"View Mr. Alexander Among his Pictures," New York Herald, February 24, 1909.
"Mr. Alexander's Exhibition," Boston Transcript, February 26, 1909.
"Exhibitions on Now," American Art News, February 27, 1909.
New York Vogue, March 4, 1909.
The Minneapolis Journal, April 23, 1911.
L. Mechlin, Washington Evening Star, January 13, 1912.
Chicago Examiner, February 26, 1913.
"Exhibition of Portraits to Open Friday Night," Minneapolis Tribune, March 16, 1913.
"John W. Alexander Painter, Dies At 58," New York Times, June 2, 1915.
"John W. Alexander," Rochester Post, June 5, 1915.
"John W. Alexander," Minneapolis Tribune, June 20, 1915.
“The Field of Art: John White Alexander, N.A., the Man and His Work,” Scribner’s Magazine, vol. 58, no. 3, September 1915, p. 388.
F.M. Wing, Amiable Libels: More than One Hundred Sketches of Minneapolitans, Chicago, Illinois, 1916, p. 37, illustrated.
"March Exhibitions," Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, vol. VI, no. 3, March 1917, p. 22.
Colorado Springs Art Society, Special Exhibition Catalogue, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by John White Alexander, exhibition catalogue, Colorado Springs, Colorado, May 6, 1917.
Handbook of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Modern American Paintings, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1922, p. 83, illustrated.
Handbook of Paintings in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1926, p. 76, illustrated.
R.E. Jackman, American Arts, New York, 1928, p. 115.
S. Leff, "Master of Sensuous Line," American Heritage, vol. 36, no. 6, October-November 1985, p. 82, illustrated.
R.G. Pisano, Idle Hours: Americans at Leisure: 1865-1914, New York, 1988, p. 35, illustrated.
L.M. Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, Washington, D.C., 1990, p. 315.
S.J. Moore, John White Alexander (1856-1915): In Search of the Decorative, Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 1992, fig. 67, illustrated.
R.G. Pisano, Parodies of the American Masters: Rediscovering the Society of American Fakirs, 1891-1914, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1994, p. 30, no. 27B, illustrated.
S. Vincent, "Home-Grown Impressionism," The Antique Collector, vol. 66, no. 8, September/October 1995, p. 44, illustrated.
S.J. Moore, John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity: Cosmopolitan American Art, 1880-1915, Newark, Delaware, 2003, n.p., illustrated.
J. Thurman, Architectural Digest, March 2003, p. 112, illustrated.
M.A. Goley, John White Alexander: An American Artist in the Gilded Age, London, 2018, pp. 98-100, 102-103, 217, fig. 53, illustrated.
Exhibited
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 68th Annual Exhibition, January 16-February 25, 1899, no. 95.
Paris, France, Salon du Champ-de-Mars, May 1, 1899, p. 22, no. 18.
Paris, France, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Salon de 1899, 1899, p. V.
New York, Society of American Artists, 23rd Annual Exhibition, March 13-May 4, 1901, no. 247.
Buffalo, New York, Pan-American Exposition, May 1-November 2, 1901, p. 6, no. 130.
New York, Lotus Club, Exhibition of Paintings in Oil Selected from the Pan-American Exposition Arranged by William T. Evans, December 28, 1901.
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by John W. Alexander, November 24-December 6, 1902, no. 19.
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Washington Artists, February 10-26, 1903, no. 22.
Boston, Massachusetts, St. Botolph Club, Pictures by John W. Alexander, March 30-April 18, 1903, no. 13.
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Sixteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, October 20-November 25, 1903, no. 20.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, Fifth Annual Exhibition, November 5-27, 1904, no. 2.
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Museum of Art, Exhibition of Paintings by Ten American Artists, December 23, 1904-January 10, 1905, no. 2.
New York, The National Arts Club, John W. Alexander: Retrospective Exhibition, February 23-March 17, 1909, no. 1.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Paintings, April 23-May 31, 1911.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Works by the National Association of Portrait Painters, March 21-31, 1913, no. 1.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, Inaugural Exhibition, January 7-February 7, 1915, no. 141.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, John White Alexander Memorial Exhibition, March 1916, pp. 30, 58, no. 7.
New York, Graham Gallery, John White Alexander 1856-1915: Correspondences, October 30-December 14, 1985, pp. 9, 11, no. 11, illustrated.
Williamstown, Massachusetts, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly, June 22-October 19, 2008, no. 33, pl. 33, illustrated.
Post lot text
We are grateful to Mary Anne Goley, author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the work of John White Alexander, for her assistance with cataloging this lot.
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