Alexandra Bradshaw

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Alexandra Bradshaw
Alexandra Bradshaw 1923
Born(1888-04-20)April 20, 1888
Nova Scotia, Canada
DiedSeptember 23, 1981(1981-09-23) (aged 93)
Whittier, California
NationalityCanadian-American
Known forPainting
SpouseClarence Hoag

Alexandra Bradshaw, also known as Alexandra Bradshaw Hoag (April 20, 1888 – September 23, 1981), was a Canadian-American watercolor artist and art professor. She studied art in the United States and Paris and became an instructor and head of the Fine Arts department at Fresno State College in California. Her works were exhibited in group and solo exhibitions throughout California and the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s. She married late in life to Clarence Hoag, the founder of Hoag Press in Boston. Their residence in Wakefield, Massachusetts, was Castle Clare and Bradshaw kept her house in South Laguna, California.

Biography[edit]

Alexandra Christine Bradshaw was born in Nova Scotia.[1][2] Bradshaw was a senior class member in the General Professional Course at the California State Normal School in 1907 and 1908.[3] A member of the midwinter class, she received her degree in January 1908.[4] In 1914, she took an advanced art course at the California State Normal School in Los Angeles.[5] She studied at with Andre L'Hote at Stanford University, with Rex Slinkard at University of California, Los Angeles, and Andre L'Hote again at Columbia University and Paris. She also studied with Hans Hofman.[1]

Bradshaw taught at the California Normal School in Fresno by 1917.[6] She was made Director of the Fine Arts Department at Fresno State College in 1920,[7][8] a position she held until 1948.[1] Two of her students that were particularly influenced by her were Don David and Hubert Buel.[1]

The Laguna Beach South Coast News reported on August 30, 1940, that Bradshaw donated a watercolor entitled Fishing at Three Arch Bay to the British Red Cross Relief at a luncheon event held at her home the previous Sunday. The painting was purchased by Mrs. C. Charles Clark of Laguna Beach.

From the time when Bradshaw was Fresno State College Fine Arts department head, she had a summer house at Three Arch Bay in South Laguna, California.[9] Bradshaw married Clarence Hoag by 1954.[1] Hoag was born in Nova Scotia in 1880 and founded Hoag Press in Boston, Massachusetts. Clarence and Alexandra lived outside of Boston, Massachusetts, in Wakefield in Castle Clare, that Clarence built between 1922 and 1949. It was divided into apartments after Clarence's death. The castle burned in 1974.[10] Bradshaw also kept a summer house at Three Arch Bay in South Laguna, California.[1][9] In 1966, the Hoags were on the California Register Blue Book.[2]

On September 23, 1981,[11] Bradshaw died in Whittier, California.[1] Her works are featured at the California Regionalist Art Collectors Club in Newport Beach.[12]

Membership[edit]

Bradshaw was a member of the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, Cambridge Art Association, Laguna Beach Art Association, Pacific Art Association, San Francisco Women Artists, Fresno Art Association, and California Watercolor Society.[1]

Exhibitions[edit]

Her were work was exhibited at:[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last. "Alexandra Bradshaw". California Watercolors 1850-1970. Retrieved February 25, 2015 – via California and American Art.
  2. ^ a b The California Register. Social Blue Book of California, Inc. 1966.
  3. ^ "Normal School Bulletin, Annual School Bulletin 1907-1908" (PDF). Los Angeles, California: California State Normal School. pp. 51, 59. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 5, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  4. ^ "Forty-Seven Students Presented Diplomas". Los Angeles Herald. January 24, 1908. p. 5. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  5. ^ State Normal School, Los Angeles (Calif.) (1914). Bulletin of Information. p. 65.
  6. ^ Directory of Secondary and Normal Schools for the School Year 1917-1918. California State Print. Office. 1918. p. 123.
  7. ^ "History & Milestones". College of Arts and Humanities, Fresno State College. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  8. ^ Florence Nightingale Levy (1920). American Art Annual. Washington, D.C.: The American Federation of the Arts. p. 227.
  9. ^ a b "The June membership show by the Artists League of Seal Beach". Independent Press-Telegraph. Long Beach, California. June 17, 1962. p. 66. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  10. ^ Nancy Bertrand (6 December 2010). Wakefield Revisited. Arcadia Publishing. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-4396-3901-6.
  11. ^ "Alexandra Christine (Bradshaw) Hoag, died September 23, 1981", State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997, Sacramento, California: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics
  12. ^ "California Regionalist Art Collectors Club". California Regionalist Art Collectors Club. Retrieved February 25, 2015.

Further reading[edit]

  • California Teachers Association (1930). CTA Journal. California Teachers Assn. p. 64.
  • Edan Milton Hughes; Crocker Art Museum (November 2002). Artists in California, 1786-1940 (Third ed.). Sacramento, California: Crocker Art Museum. ISBN 1884038085.
  • John McGinnis (April 1985). Changing times/changing styles: the Ruth Stoever Fleming Collection of southern California art. Newport-Mesa Unified School District. pp. 1946, 1955. ISBN 978-0-9614891-1-3.
  • Rollin Pickford; Joel Pickford (1998). California Light: The Watercolors of Rollin Pickford. Press at California State University. p. 134.

External links[edit]

External images
image icon Paintings by Alexander Bradshaw
image icon Three Arch Bay, Laguna, California, where Bradshaw had a summer home
image icon Alexandra Bradshaw (1923), and other notable Fresno State College women
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