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John White Alexander (American, 1856–1915)
Self-Portrait, ca. 1900

Monotype, 7 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.
Chazen Museum of Art, gift of D. Frederick Baker from the
Baker/Pisano Collection, 2014.6.16

Jug with Handles,* 1900

Monotype, 7 3/8 x 5 3/16 in.
Chazen Museum of Art, gift of D. Frederick Baker from the
Baker/Pisano Collection, 2014.6.17

Like William Merritt Chase, Alexander could have been introduced to the art of the monotype during his student days at the
Munich Academy. He later lived and worked in Italy where he
met, and became an acolyte of, James McNeill Whistler during
a stay in Venice in the summer of 1879. Ten years later Alexander
moved to Paris, where in the 1890s an informal monotype
group had been organized by members of the American Art
Association of Paris. It was in Paris that Alexander completed
his Self-Portrait. This work has subsequently been passed down
through the artist’s family.
NOTES:
Goley, John White Alexander (1856–1915).
*Goley, Out of the Kitchen, 12, cat. no. 21.

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