Lena M. Alexander, later Lena Duncan, (9 December 1899 – 29 March 1983) was a Scottish artist known for her portrait and flower paintings.

Biography

Alexander was born in Glasgow and for a time lived with her parents at Broughty Ferry. 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 The Kirkcudbright Artists’ Colony was an artists’ community that existed approximately between 1880 and 1980 in Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway. The town attracted many of the country’s leading artists such as E A Hornel, William Mou ...

. Alexander mainly painted in pastel and watercolours, often depicting portraits and images of flowers, but also views of Venice and Paris. During her career Alexander exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the

Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...

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 The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is the country’s national academy of art. It promotes contemporary Scottish art. The Academy was founded in 1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy, it became the ...

. 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

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, the Kirkcudbright Galleries and the

Stewartry Museum The Stewartry Museum is a local museum in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, which covers the history of this part of Galloway. History The museum was originally founded in 1879 and housed on the top floor of Kirkcudbright Town Hall. The museum moved t ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alexander, Lena 1899 births 1983 deaths 20th-century Scottish painters 20th-century Scottish women artists Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art Artists from Glasgow Scottish women painters 20th-century women painters