Lena Alexander
{{Short description|Scottish painter (1899–1983)}}
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| caption = Crop from a portrait of Alexander by Alison Livingstone
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| birth_date = 9 December 1899
| birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland
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| death_place = Dumfries
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| alma_mater = Glasgow School of Art
| known_for = Painting
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Lena M. Alexander, later Lena Duncan, (9 December 1899 – 29 March 1983) was a Scottish artist known for her portrait and flower paintings.{{cite book|publisher=Editions Grund, Paris|year=2006|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 1 A-Bedeschini|isbn=2-7000-3070-2}}
Biography
Alexander was born in Glasgow and for a time lived with her parents at Broughty Ferry in Dundee. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art and then, in the 1930s, moved to Kirkcudbright where she became an active member of the group of artists known as the Kirkcudbright School.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}}{{cite book|author=Paul Harris & Julian Halsby|publisher=Canongate|year=1990|title=The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present|isbn=1-84195-150-1}} Alexander mainly painted in pastel and watercolours, often depicting portraits and images of flowers, but also views of Venice and Paris.{{cite web |url=http://www.fasedinburgh.com/artists/478/ |title=Lena Alexander|access-date=10 January 2019|work=The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh}} During her career Alexander exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the Royal Academy in London, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and with the Society of Women Artists. Between 1919 and 1925 and then again from 1943 to 1972 she was a regular exhibitor with the Royal Scottish Academy.{{cite book|author=Peter J.M. McEwan|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1994|title=The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture|isbn=1-85149-134-1}} Examples of her work were included in the Still Life in the Twentieth Century exhibition held at Bourne Fine Art in Edinburgh during 1999. A number of public galleries in Scotland hold her work including the McLean Museum in Greenock, the Kirkcudbright Galleries and the Stewartry Museum.{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkcudbrightgalleries.org.uk/artists-footsteps/artist/lena-alexander/|title=Artwork by Lena Alexander|access-date=10 January 2019|work=Kirkcudbright Galleries}}{{cite web |url=http://artistsfootsteps.co.uk/artist_large.asp?ID=5|title=Lena Alexander|access-date=11 January 2019|work=In the Artists' Footsteps (Dumfries & Galloway Council, Cultural Services)}}
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External links
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Category:20th-century Scottish painters