Paul Alexander
Alexander (September 3, 1937 – June 14, 2021) was an American commercial artist and illustrator. In a career spanning from 1976–1998, he specialized in creating art for the covers of science fiction paperbacks and occasionally magazines. He was usually credited as Paul Alexander, but occasionally as Paul R.
Also recorded as Paul Richard Alexander
Paul Alexander
- Name
- Paul Alexander
- Birth Name
- Paul R.
- Born
- 3 September 1937
- Birthplace
- Richmond, Indiana
- Died
- 14 June 2021
- Place of death
- Greenville, Ohio
- Field
- Illustration
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- illustrator
- Fields
- illustration · science fiction
- Education
- Art Center College of Design · Wittenberg University
- Languages
- English
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Alexander (September 3, 1937 – June 14, 2021) was an American commercial artist and illustrator. In a career spanning from 1976–1998, he specialized in creating art for the covers of science fiction paperbacks and occasionally magazines. He was usually credited as Paul Alexander, but occasionally as Paul R.
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Paul Alexander (1937–2021) was an American illustrator. The illustrator was born in Richmond.
Paul Alexander studied at Art Center College of Design and Wittenberg University. The illustrator was active in illustration and science fiction. Languages used include English.
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• Name — Paul Alexander • Birth Name — Paul R. Alexander • Born — 3 September 1937 • Birthplace — Richmond, Indiana • Died — 14 June 2021 • Place of death — Greenville, Ohio • Field — Illustration
Life and career
Life and career
Alexander was born on September 3, 1937, in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, the son of Fred and Ora Olive Alexander. He graduated from Wittenburg University in Springfield, Ohio, in 1967, and also studied at the Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles. He was "one of the top science fiction paperback cover artists of the 1970s and '80s." His career as a commercial artist on the East Coast spanned from 1976–1998. He was also a model train collector. Alexander died on June 14, 2021, at the Brethren Retirement Community in Greenville, Ohio. He was survived by a brother and sister-in-law, niece, and nephew.
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Paul Alexander is recorded as illustrator.
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1937
Paul Alexander was born in 1937 at Richmond.
2021
Paul Alexander died in 2021.
2022
Dr. Paul Alexander: Federal Government Should Fire Everyone in Their Covid Task Force - All of Them (2022) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
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Vincent Di Fate, fellow science fiction illustrator and a historian of the field, grouped Alexander together with Dean Ellis, Christopher Foss and John Berkey as "gadget" artists, "adept at painting futuristic hardware."
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Wright, Alexander Paul, (born 29 Feb
Sieghart, (Henry Laurence) Paul (Alexander) (1927–1988), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018
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