Alexander Samuel MacLeod (1888–1956), also known as A. S. MacLeod, was a painter and printmaker. He was born on

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, Canada on April 12, 1888.

Biography

MacLeod studied at

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. After moving to San Francisco, he continued his artistic training at the

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under

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. In 1921, MacLeod arrived in Hawaii, where he worked in the art departments of the magazine ''

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'' and the local papers, ''

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'' and the ''

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''. By 1929, he had returned to Canada and resided there for ten years. Again in Hawaii, MacLeod became the director of the graphic art department for the United States Army in the Pacific. In 1943, he published a book of his Hawaiian prints, ''The Spirit of Hawaii, Before and After Pearl Harbor''. MacLeod retired to

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, where he died in 1956. MacLeod is best known for his Hawaiian landscapes (such as ''Fishpond, Kahaluu'') and sympathetic representations of rural Hawaii's native population (such as ''Surfing Waikiki''). The California State Library (Sacramento), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the

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, the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts (Stanford University), the

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(Kansas City, Missouri), the

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, the Seattle Art Museum, the

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(Washington, DC), and the University of Hawaii at Manoa are among the public collections holding works by Alexander Samuel MacLeod.AskArt.com
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References

* Blackburn, Mark, ''Hawaiiana'', Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 1996, pp. 21, 231 * Forbes, David W., ''Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941'', Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 210–250. * Hughes, Edan, ''Artists in California 1786-1940'', Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, 2002. * MacLeod, Alexander Samuel, ''The Spirit of Hawaii, Before and After Pearl Harbor'', New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1943. * Morse, Morse (ed.), ''Honolulu Printmakers'', Honolulu, HI, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2003, pp. 16 & 37, * Papanikolas, Theresa and DeSoto Brown, ''Art Deco Hawai'i'', Honolulu, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2014, , p. 77 * Sandulli, Justin M., ''Troubled Paradise: Madge Tennent at a Hawaiian Crossroads'', Durham, NC: Duke University, 2016

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