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JOHN WHITE ALEXANDER (1856-1915)

Lot 123
21.10.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 818768
Lot 123 | JOHN WHITE ALEXANDER (1856-1915)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
JOHN WHITE ALEXANDER (1856-1915)

Portrait of Kathleen Cowan

signed and dated 'J.W. Alexander-/Aug 1900' (lower right)

oil on canvas

60 x 40 in. (152.4 x 101.6 cm.)

Painted in 1900





Provenance

The artist.

John James Cowan, Edinburgh, Scotland, commissioned from the above, 1900.

Elizabeth Fraser Peters, daughter of the sitter.

Christopher Home Cowan, grandson of John James Cowan, circa 1936.

Phillips, Edinburgh, Scotland, 7 December 1984, lot 33.

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., and David Nisinson, New York, acquired from the above.

Peter Terian, New York, acquired from the above.

David Nisinson, New York.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above, 2003.



Literature

Archives of American Art, John White Alexander papers, box 2, folder 11, frame 10.

Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Catalogue of Paintings: John White Alexander, Memorial Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1916, p. 45.

J.J. Cowan, From 1846 to 1932, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1933, pp. 156-57.

S.J. Moore, John White Alexander (1856-1915): In Search of the Decorative, Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 1992, p. 253.

M.A. Goley, John White Alexander: An American Artist in the Gilded Age, London, 2018, p. 111n130.



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.
Artist:John White Alexander (1856 - 1915)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Auction house category:Paintings
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