American Bog Paintings 2013

Exhibited:

Gallery Broadway 1602, New York 2013.

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 2016.

Further Reading:

Art since 1989 (World of Art): Dr. Kelly Grovier, Thames & Hudson 2015

Lincoln 1

  • Oil on canvas
  • 85.1 x 73 cm
  • 2013
Reinvention of famous Abraham Lincoln image by Mark Alexander using thick dark oil paints as though ten years later. (Framed)

American Flag 1854

  • Oil on Canvas
  • 90 x 127 cm
  • 2013
American flag painted in very thick oil paint , various shades of black , getting more and more wrinkled and darker over the years

Lincoln 11

  • oil on canvas
  • 61.2 x 46 cm
  • 2013
Dark reinvention of classsic image of Abraham Lincoln by Mark Alexander.

The Frekes

  • Oil on Canvas
  • 86 x 65 cm
  • 2013
Painting of Mother and child , one of the first portraits of an American family to be painted , painted here in browns read and green in Alexander’s so called bog style , imitating the look of the ancient bog bodies found in Northern Europe

Micky Mouse

  • Oil on canvas
  • 65.2 x 46.5 cm
  • 2013

Stars (Study)

  • Oil on board
  • 25.4 x 20.3 cm
  • 2013
Oil painting of the US flag re-invented in thick oil paints. Heavily wrinkled. (Study)

Flag 1959

  • Oil on canvas
  • 90.5 x 126.5 cm
  • 2013
Oil painting of the 1959 US flag re-invented in thick oil paints. Heavily wrinkled.

Mickey (Study)

  • Oil on board
  • 30 x 30 cm
  • 2013
Study of Mickey Mouse painting by Mark Alexander in dark colours.