Alexander Samuel MacLeod
Illustration — Surfing Waikiki, oil on art board painting by Alexander Samuel MacLeod, c. 1940 • Illustration — Fishpond, Kahaluu, lithograph by Alexander Samuel MacLeod, c. 1940 Alexander Samuel MacLeod (1888–1956), also known as Sam MacLeod, was a Canadian-born American painter and printmaker.
Alexander Samuel MacLeod
- Born
- 1888
- Died
- 1956
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- San Francisco Art Institute
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Illustration — Surfing Waikiki, oil on art board painting by Alexander Samuel MacLeod, c. 1940 • Illustration — Fishpond, Kahaluu, lithograph by Alexander Samuel MacLeod, c. 1940 Alexander Samuel MacLeod (1888–1956), also known as Sam MacLeod, was a Canadian-born American painter and printmaker.
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Early life and education
Early life and education
He was best known for his depictions of Hawaii landscapes, and portraits of Native Hawaiians.
He was born on April 12, 1888, on Prince Edward Island, Canada. MacLeod studied at McGill University. After moving to San Francisco, he continued his artistic training at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (now San Francisco Art Institute) under Frank Van Sloun.
Career
Career
He maintained an art studio in San Francisco in the Montgomery Block, and commuted to San Francisco from San Mateo, California. In 1921, MacLeod arrived in Hawaii, where he worked in the art departments of the magazine Paradise of the Pacific, and the local papers, The Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. By 1929, he had returned to Canada and resided there for ten years. Again in Hawaii, MacLeod became the director of the graphic art department for the United States Army in the Pacific. In 1943, he published a book of his Hawaiian prints, The Spirit of Hawaii, Before and After Pearl Harbor. MacLeod is best known for his Hawaiian landscapes (such as Fishpond, Kahaluu) and sympathetic representations of rural Hawaii's native population (such as Surfing Waikiki). MacLeod retired to Palo Alto, California after the end of World War II, where he died in 1956.
Collections
The California State Library, Sacramento, California; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Honolulu Museum of Art; the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; the New York Public Library; the Seattle Art Museum; the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.; and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, are among the public collections holding works by MacLeod.
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Sam MacLeod's Lithograph 'Print of Month'. Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 13. 1953-01-17.
- 2.Severson, Don R. Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, p. 120
- 3.Hughes, Edan Milton. Artists in California, 1786–1940. Hughes Publishing Company. 1989. 9780961611217.
- 4.Alexander Samuel MacLeod. AskArt.com.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- Blackburn, Mark, Hawaiiana, Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 1996, pp. 21, 231
- Forbes, David W., Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 210–250.
- MacLeod, Alexander Samuel, The Spirit of Hawaii, Before and After Pearl Harbor, New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1943.
- Morse, Morse (ed.), Honolulu Printmakers, Honolulu, HI, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2003, pp. 16 & 37,
- Papanikolas, Theresa and DeSoto Brown, Art Deco Hawai'i, Honolulu, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2014, , p. 77
- Sandulli, Justin M., Troubled Paradise: Madge Tennent at a Hawaiian Crossroads, Durham, NC: Duke University, 2016
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