Diver's Cove
Artist
Alexandra Bradshaw
(1888 - 1981)
Date1939
MediumWatercolor on paper
Dimensions17 x 21 in. (43.2 x 53.3 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineThe Hilbert Collection
Object numberBra-20
DescriptionAlexandra Christine Bradshaw was born in 1888 in Nova Scotia, Canada, and immigrated with her family to the U.S. in 1892, settling in Southern California. She attended Stanford University, UCLA and Columbia University.She took classes at the Art Students League of Los Angeles under Rex Slinkard and Warren T. Hedges, and later took a summer class at UC Berkeley with Hans Hofmann, when he taught there in 1930 and 1931. She also studied with one of the French masters of Cubism, André Lhote (1885–1962), in Paris. She was a member of the California Water Color Society, the Fresno Art Association, and the Boston Water Color Painters. By 1918, she was teaching art at Fresno State College (now Cal State Fresno), and she served as department chair from 1922 to 1948. By the mid-1950s, she was married to Clarence Hoag and living in Massachusetts. After Hoag’s death in 1969, she returned to Southern California, where she remained for the rest of her life.
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