Awards and Memorials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Alexander, John White, 1856-1915
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content: John White Alexander papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.8 Linear Feet (Box 2, OV 24)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1870-1944
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.alexjohn, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Additional photographs of the Alexander Memorial Studio are found in Photographs. This series has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains award certificates and medals awarded to Alexander during his lifetime, and memorial resolutions and projects carried out after his death in 1915.

Award certificates and medals are found from the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, the Carnegie Institute, and the Panama Pacific Exposition. Additional medals awarded for Alexander's artwork are found from the Societé National des Beaux-Arts, the Paris Exposition of 1900, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Pan American Exposition, the Saint Louis Exposition, the Buenos Aires Exposition, and the School Arts League. Additional medals from civic organizations are also found.

Extensive materials are found documenting the creation of the Alexander Memorial Studio at the McDowell Colony in New Hampshire, including published reports of the McDowell Club and Colony, images in the form of photo postcards and engravings, and a studio book containing photographs of the studio's construction, a history of the studio, and the signatures of resident artists. Notes and correspondence concerning the history of the studio are found tucked in the book.

Over a dozen memorial resolutions issued upon Alexander's death by arts organizations to which he contributed during his lifetime are found. Several of these resolutions exist in ornate, calligraphic, bound volumes.