Alex Koolman
{{Short description|English artist (1907–1998)}}
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| name = Alex Koolman
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| birth_name = Alexander C. Koolman
| birth_date = {{birth year|1907|}}
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| death_date = {{death year and age|1998|1907}}
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| known_for = {{hlist|Painting|portraiture|teaching}}
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- Society of Industrial Artists
- Royal Society of British Artists (1948)
- Royal Society of Portrait Painters (1970)
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| website = {{URL|https://artuk.org/discover/artists/koolman-alexander-19071998|Alex Koolman – Art UK}}
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Alexander C. Koolman {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|RBA|RP|MSIA|}} (1907–1998) was an English portrait and figure painter who worked predominantly in oil and pastels.{{Cite web |title=Koolman, Alexander, 1907–1998 {{!}} Art UK |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/koolman-alexander-19071998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514105019/https://artuk.org/discover/artists/koolman-alexander-19071998 |archive-date=14 May 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=Art UK}}
Member of the Society of Industrial Artists.{{Cite news |date=3 January 1951 |title=ALEXANDER KOOLMAN, R.B.A., M.S.I.A., FOR THE DUNLOP RUBBER CO. LTD. |work=The Tatler |pages=47 |type=Advertisement Illustration}}
Elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1948 and to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1970.{{Cite web |title=ARCHIVE - The Royal Society of Portrait Painters |url=https://therp.co.uk/portrait-archive/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514111637/https://therp.co.uk/portrait-archive/ |archive-date=14 May 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=Royal Society of Portrait Painters}}
Selected exhibitions
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London{{Cite book |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/exhibition-catalogue/ra-sec-vol199-1967 |title=Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (The 199th) |publisher=Royal Academy of Arts |year=1967 |location=London |pages=112 |access-date=14 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514113914/https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/exhibition-catalogue/ra-sec-vol199-1967 |archive-date=14 May 2024}}
Annual Exhibition, Royal Society of British Artists, London{{Cite book |url=https://royalsocietyofbritishartists.org.uk/upload/archive-pdfs/237th-exhibition-1962.pdf |title=Catalogue: The 237th Exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists |publisher=Royal Society of British Artists |year=1962 |location=London |language=en |access-date=14 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514113209/https://royalsocietyofbritishartists.org.uk/upload/archive-pdfs/237th-exhibition-1962.pdf |archive-date=14 May 2024}}
Annual Exhibition, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London
Collections
- Kirklees Museums and Galleries, Kirklees, West Yorkshire{{Cite web |title=Lydia No. 2 {{!}} Art UK |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/lydia-no-2-22191 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514105821/https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/lydia-no-2-22191 |archive-date=14 May 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=Art UK}}
- Lydia No. 2, oil on board.
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External links
- {{Art UK bio}}
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Category:20th-century English male artists
Category:20th-century English painters
Category:English male painters
Category:English pastel artists