{{Short description|Canadian-American painter}} {{Infobox artist | name = Alexandra Bradshaw | image = Photo of Alexandra Bradshaw.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Alexandra Bradshaw 1923 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1888|4|20|mf=y}} | birth_place = Nova Scotia, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|1981|9|23|1888|4|20|mf=y}} | death_place = Whittier, California | education = Stanford University, University of California (Los Angeles), Columbia University, NY | field = Painting | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = Clarence Hoag | partner = }}
'''Alexandra Bradshaw''', also known as '''Alexandra Bradshaw Hoag''' (April 20, 1888 – September 23, 1981), was a Canadian-American watercolor artist and art professor. She studied art in the United States and Paris and became an instructor and head of the Fine Arts department at Fresno State College in California. Her works were exhibited in group and solo exhibitions throughout California and the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s. She married late in life to Clarence Hoag, the founder of Hoag Press in Boston. Their residence in Wakefield, Massachusetts, was Castle Clare and Bradshaw kept her house in South Laguna, California.
==Biography== Alexandra Christine Bradshaw was born in Nova Scotia.{{r|CalArt}}<ref name="Blue Book " >{{cite book|title=The California Register|year=1966|publisher=Social Blue Book of California, Inc.}}</ref> Bradshaw was a senior class member in the General Professional Course at the California State Normal School in 1907 and 1908.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/archive/catalog/08-09catalog.pdf | title=Normal School Bulletin, Annual School Bulletin 1907-1908 | publisher=California State Normal School | location=Los Angeles, California | pages=51, 59 | accessdate=February 25, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905041109/http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/archive/catalog/08-09catalog.pdf | archive-date=September 5, 2012 | url-status=dead }}</ref> A member of the midwinter class, she received her degree in January 1908.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19080124.2.66 | title= Forty-Seven Students Presented Diplomas |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |date=January 24, 1908 | page=5 | accessdate=February 25, 2015 }}</ref> In 1914, she took an advanced art course at the California State Normal School in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite book|author=State Normal School, Los Angeles (Calif.)|title=Bulletin of Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MfUYAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA65|year=1914|page=65}}</ref> She studied with Andre Lhote at Stanford University, with Rex Slinkard at University of California, Los Angeles, and Andre Lhote again at Columbia University and Paris. She also studied with Hans Hofmann.{{r|CalArt}}
Bradshaw taught at the California Normal School in Fresno by 1917.<ref>{{cite book|title=Directory of Secondary and Normal Schools for the School Year 1917-1918 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c2ozAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA123|year=1918|publisher=California State Print. Office|page=123}}</ref> She was made Director of the Fine Arts Department at Fresno State College in 1920,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/about/history.html | title=History & Milestones | publisher=College of Arts and Humanities, Fresno State College | accessdate=February 25, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Levy " >{{cite book|author=Florence Nightingale Levy|title=American Art Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w18oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA227|year=1920|publisher=The American Federation of the Arts|location=Washington, D.C.|page=227}}</ref> a position she held until 1948.{{r|CalArt}} Two of her students that were particularly influenced by her were Don David and Hubert Buel.{{r|CalArt}}
The ''Laguna Beach South Coast News'' reported on August 30, 1940, that Bradshaw donated a watercolor entitled ''Fishing at Three Arch Bay'' to the British Red Cross Relief at a luncheon event held at her home the previous Sunday. The painting was purchased by Mrs. C. Charles Clark of Laguna Beach.
From the time when Bradshaw was Fresno State College Fine Arts department head, she had a summer house at Three Arch Bay in South Laguna, California.{{r|Seal Beach}} Bradshaw married Clarence Hoag by 1954.{{r|CalArt}} Hoag was born in Nova Scotia in 1880 and founded Hoag Press in Boston, Massachusetts. Clarence and Alexandra lived outside of Boston, Massachusetts, in Wakefield in Castle Clare, that Clarence built between 1922 and 1949. It was divided into apartments after Clarence's death. The castle burned in 1974.<ref name="Bertrand " >{{cite book|author=Nancy Bertrand|title=Wakefield Revisited|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKMadKwtRNoC&pg=PA63|date=6 December 2010|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4396-3901-6|page=63}}</ref> Bradshaw also kept a summer house at Three Arch Bay in South Laguna, California.{{r|CalArt}}<ref name="Seal Beach " >{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/20969632/ | title=The June membership show by the Artists League of Seal Beach | newspaper=Independent Press-Telegraph |location=Long Beach, California | date=June 17, 1962 | page=66 | accessdate=February 25, 2015 }}</ref> In 1966, the Hoags were on the California Register Blue Book.{{r|Blue Book}}
On September 23, 1981,<ref>{{citation | title=Alexandra Christine (Bradshaw) Hoag, died September 23, 1981 | work=State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997 | location=Sacramento, California | publisher=State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics }}</ref> Bradshaw died in Whittier, California.<ref name=CalArt >{{cite web |url=http://www.calart.com/Data/featured/Alexandra_Bradshaw.asp|title=Alexandra Bradshaw| author=Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last. |publisher=California Watercolors 1850-1970 | via=California and American Art |accessdate=February 25, 2015}}</ref> Her works are featured at the California Regionalist Art Collectors Club in Newport Beach.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.californiaregionalistart.com/ | title=California Regionalist Art Collectors Club | publisher=California Regionalist Art Collectors Club |accessdate=February 25, 2015}}</ref>
==Memberships== Bradshaw was a member of the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, Cambridge Art Association, Laguna Beach Art Association, Pacific Art Association, San Francisco Women Artists, Fresno Art Association, and California Watercolor Society.{{r|CalArt}}
==Selected exhibitions== Her were work was exhibited at:{{r|CalArt}} * San Francisco Society of Women Painters, 1932 (award) * Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939 * National Association of Women Artists, 1940, 1941 * California Water Color Society 1940, 1942, 1944, 1952–53 * Laguna Beach Art Association, 1941–48, (prizes), 1944, 1948 (prize) * San Francisco Art Association, 1943, 1944 * San Francisco Museum of Art, 1943 * Riverside Museum, NY, 1944, 1946 * Pasadena Art Institute (solo), 1959-1965 * Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield MA, 1960, 1964 * Laguna Beach CA, 1964 * Crocker Art Gallery (solo) * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston * Busch–Reisinger Museum * San Diego Gallery Fine Arts (solo) * City of Paris, San Francisco * Little Gallery, Boston
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==Further reading== * {{cite book|author=California Teachers Association|title=CTA Journal|year=1930|publisher=California Teachers Assn.|page=64}} * {{cite book|author1=Edan Milton Hughes|author2=Crocker Art Museum|title=Artists in California, 1786-1940|edition=Third|date=November 2002|publisher=Crocker Art Museum|location=Sacramento, California|isbn=1884038085}} * {{cite book|author=John McGinnis|title=Changing times/changing styles: the Ruth Stoever Fleming Collection of southern California art|date=April 1985|publisher=Newport-Mesa Unified School District|isbn=978-0-9614891-1-3|pages=1946, 1955}} * {{cite book|author1=Rollin Pickford|author2=Joel Pickford|title=California Light: The Watercolors of Rollin Pickford|year=1998|publisher=Press at California State University|page=134}}
==External links== {{External images |float=left |width=600px |image1=[http://www.californiawatercolor.com/collections/california-watercolors/alexandra-bradshaw Paintings by Alexander Bradshaw] |image2=[http://www.calart.com/data/items/429_-_Three_Arch_Bay_-_L.asp Three Arch Bay], Laguna, California, where Bradshaw had a summer home |image3=[https://fresnostate.digication.com/notable_women_in_fresno_state_history/Home/edit Alexandra Bradshaw (1923)], and other notable Fresno State College women }}
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