Artist: Christopher Alexander ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Christopher Pearse Cranch, American, 1813-1892 San Pietro in Castello, Venice about 1860 Oil on canvas
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Johann Christopher Winkler, St. Christopher Bearing the Christ Child, 18th century
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Hans Memling - St. Christopher c. 1479-1480 oil on panel Cincinnati Art Museum Flemish
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Fritz Eichenberg - St. Christopher n.d. wood engraving Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College American
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Lucas Cranach the Elder - Saint Christopher 1518-20 oil on linden panel The Detroit Institute of Art German
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Lucas Cranach the Elder - St. Christopher and the Christ Child c. 1518 Oil on panel The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens German
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Frederick Kemmelmeyer - First Landing of Christopher Columbus 1800-1805 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Christopher Park, 50,000 !, 1994
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Eugene Delacroix - Christopher Columbus and His Son at La Rabida 1838 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Christopher Brown, Flight, 1993
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Christopher Brown, Grapeshot, 1990
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Christopher Brown, Station, 1993
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Christopher Brown, Eighty-Second Street, 1993
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Christopher Grubbs, Vida"s Seat, 1983
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Charles Christopher Hill, Armstrong, 1977
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Cosmo Alexander - Alexander Grant 1770 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago
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Christopher Brown, Binocular Blackbirds, 1995
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Jan Mandyn - Saint Christopher and the Christ Child c. 1550 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art Flemish
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Christopher Brown, Under The Flag, 1991
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Christopher Brown, Malaga, 1993
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Christopher Brown, 1929, 1993
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Christopher Brown, Sightings from the set, Pages from the Birder"s Log, 1994
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Fritz Eichenberg, Saint Christopher, 20th century
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Christopher Brown, The Darkness of Grey, 1990
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Christopher Brown, Seventy-Nine Men, 1991
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Christopher van Sichem, [Saint?], 16th - 17th century
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Christopher Brown, Forty Flakes, 1991
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Christopher van Sichem, [Capittel], 16th - 17th century
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Christopher van Sichem, [S. Petrus], 16th - 17th century
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Christopher van Sichem, [S. Tadeus], 16th - 17th century
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Christopher van Sichem, S. Thomas, 16th - 17th century
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Albrecht D¸rer, St. Christopher, Facing Left, 1521
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Isaiah West Taber, Statue of Christopher Columbus, 1894
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Albrecht D¸rer, Saint Christopher, 1521
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Christopher Brown, The Farmer"s Almanac from the set, Pages from the Birder"s Log, 1994
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William Holl (the Younger), Sir Christopher Wren, 19th century
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Charles W. Sharpe, Christopher Sly (Taming of the Shrew), 20th century
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Christopher Brown, Gravure Group, 1995
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Christopher Brown, Divining Rod from the set, Pages from the Birder"s Log, 1994
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Christopher Brown, Sheet Music from the set, Pages from the Birder"s Log, 1994

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: The Opulent Eye of Alexander Girard
His stores, showrooms, exhibitions, and houses introduced modern design to millions of Americans, while his restaurants dazzled the public with their theatricality. ...
Grand Hotel Armorie Hall: I AM BLUE: Hans Alexander Gerlanius
When Hans' grandfather brought the easel down from the attic to the young, hyperactive offspring, everything calmed down. Ever since, Hans paints. His restlessness has taken him all over the world. He lived for a few years in the United States, ...
RussiArt.com: Alexander Brovin: Towers
RussiArt.com was creatd by a team of professinals who enthusiastically persue their dream of introducing contemporary Russian art to the world via the Internet. The site will promote Russian artists and their work by organizing continuous exhibiti...
Grand Hotel Armory Hall: Hans Alexander Gerlanius: Saknad/Missing
His canvases with archtypical motifs and mythological symbols that symbolise what all of us have inside. Hans Alexander is certain the entire humanity is floating in and out of a bubble of collective consciusness where love and communication reign...
South African National Gallery: Jane Alexander Installations Featured in Solo Exhibition
The impact of Butcher Boys, a life-size "trio of malevolent figures ... with ripped-open spines" is so immense that it is famous even to those with little knowledge of art. In fact, it was Butcher Boys that established Alexander as an artist, o...
McKinney Avenue Contemporary: Visions, Vows and That Old Time Religion: Paintings by John Alexander
John Alexander is among the most internationally recognized artists from Texas. Like other post-war giants -- Robert Rauschenberg and Julian Schnabel come to mind -- he has made his reputation outside of Texas, all the while maintaining longst...
Micro Museum: Archetype Juxtaposed: William Alexander Kerr and Juliette Pelletier
William Alexander Kerr has exhibited in individual and group shows in the United States, Switzerland and Portugal. Kerr received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, and is a self-taught fine artist. Prior t...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Pew Charitable Trusts Teams with Art Museum to Initiate Outdoor Display of Calder Sculptures
Sculptures of varying scale, some of them monumental, could be placed on the two-acre site of the forthcoming Calder Museum at Benjamin ...
Physics Room: Perseverance: Lee Campbell, Alexander Costello, Sonia Bruce
Artist & curator Lee Campbell uses supermarket stickers as a device to visualise the psychological effects of mass consumerism. By covering entire areas of landscape and vast collections of second-hand junk with millions of stickers (all supplied ...
Lundskonsthall: (Dys)Function: Csörgó Attila, Ceal Floyer, Alexander Gutke, Rivane Neuenschwander
Another aspect upon which we want to focus in an exhibition like (Dys)Function is that a work’s communicative aspects may open up infinite possibilities and at the same time be, nonetheless, difficult to master. A work’s meaning is seldom crystall...
Universidad de Concepcion: Alexander Sutulov: A Monumental Mural - The History of Chilean Mining
Paradoxically, today we are confronted with environmental issues where our empirical knowledge in copper production is a key aspect in finding viable solutions to clean technologies with by-products such as sulphuric acid in order to prevent a com...
ASU Art Museum: The Eye of the Collector: Works from the Lipman Collection of American Art
The exhibition will include works by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, David Smith, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, Robert Morris and will...
Experimental Art Foundation: HETEROGENEOUS LOVES: Work by 8 artists from Canada, the UK and USA
Artists included in the exhibiton are:
Jose Alexander Hidalgo
Don Bury
Kevin Francis Gray
Karolyn Hatton
Robert Harper Jones
Eva Rothschild
Stewart R. Simons
Clare Woods...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Photographs of Artists
Don't miss this opportunity to come face to face with artists represented in the Gallery's collection such as Henri...
Historical Museum of Vienna: Chagall, Kandinsky and The Russian Experiment, Drawings and Watercolors from the Puschkin Museum
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Thomas Dane: Calder: The Forties
"The next step in sculpture is motion." Alexander Calder, New York World-Telegram, June 11, 1932. "my first work in the abstract was based on the concept of stellar relationships. Since then there have been variations from this theme, but I ...
Kunstverein Hannover: On Stage: Video, Installation, Sculpture and Photography
Among the artists taking part are Birgit Brenner, Christoph Büchel, Janet Cardiff/George Bures Miller, Björn Dahlem, Stefan Exler, Rodney Graham, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Ross Sinclair, Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler, Stephan Wissel.IMAGE:...
Wellington City Gallery: The Magic of the Everyday - CAUGHT IN THIS SENSUAL MUSIC ALL: Works by Janet Paul
The paintings of figures in their lived-in environments bring out the magical in the everyday life. They show private moments with family and friends in relaxed surroundings, during holidays in the Coromandel or while at home in Wellington. Alongs...
Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin Beijing: Performing the Body: Photography and Performance from China - Cang Xin, Chen Lingyang, Chi Peng, Hai Bo, Ma Liuming, Miao Xiaochun, Muchen and Shaoyinong
Once used exclusively as an instrument of propaganda, it has within the briefest time span been able to penetrate other artistic practices like painting, installation, and performance, taking on an important role of its own among the contemporary ...
artoose: Spring Open Weekend: Work by 14, Young, Contemporary Artists
We are also showing a collection of 80 cards made by contemporary surrealist Dan Bendel, recent 'chaos' paintings by Rufus Knightwebb, 'encapsulated' resin sculptures by Mark Russell, radical painting by post-pop artist Gary Colclough, dystopian c...
Powerhouse Museum: When Philip Met Isabella: Philip Treacy’s Hats for Isabella Blow
Since their first meeting in 1989, Blow has been Treacy’s friend, muse and constant source of inspiration. Many of his most surreal and sculptural hats have been made for her. "Issy never says: ‘You’ve gone too far,’" says Treacy. "She always says...
Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University: From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny and Transformation in Roman Portraiture
The exhibition will be complemented by a variety of scholarly and educational programs. A catalogue accompanying the exhibition will consist of detailed entries on the individual objects featured in the exhibition, as well as sig...
Frye Art Museum: An American in Europe: The Photography Collection of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim from the Norton Museum of Art
The exciting presentation includes the work of several prominent pre-war European photographers published in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camerawork; a very significant group o...
State Hermitage Museum: For the Faith and Loyalty. To Commemorate the 300-Anniversary of the Russian Imperial Guards
The Russian Imperial Guards were founded by Peter the Great and for the first time received their baptism of fire in the hearth of the Northern War with Sweden.For the first three decades of...
Exit Art Gallery: Call for Artists: HOMOMUSEUM - Heroes and Moments
The exhibition is a response to the tremendous influence that gay culture has had on mainstream culture and will investigate how homosexuality is defined and expressed by queer artists today. For the exhibition Exit Art is asking LGBT artist...
Tampa Museum of Art: Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Relying on personal initiatives rather than established conventions, these painters and sculptors convey exceptional ingenuity, insight, wit, and reverence through their work. Rev. Howard Finster, Thornton Dial, Earl Cunningham, and Purvi...
Orleans House Gallery: A River Runs Through It: Riverside Views of the Thames
A number of these stunning riverside views will go on display including one of the earliest, Peter Tillemans’ famous panoramic view of The Thames at Twickenham (c.1724-30). Today, the river still stirs the imaginations of contemporary artist...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: After the Beginning and Before the End: 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono
The exhibition After the Beginning and Before the End - 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono is about these beginnings. In 222 examples of the artist’s first steps toward the finished product, this exhibition s...
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt: Change of Scene XVIII
New works / New rooms by:
Gilbert & George (*1943 & 1942), Katharina Fritsch (*1956), Felix Gonzales-Torres (*1957-1996), Franz Gertsch (*1930), Rosemarie Trockel (*1952), Markus Raetz (*1941), Barbara Klemm (*1939), Robert Gober (*1954), An...
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The collection was removed from public display last summer for gallery renovation. The museum's collection of Fabergé objects is one of the largest of any museum outside Russia. The new, thematically organized Fabergé gallery features ...

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