Larry D. Alexander

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Larry Dell Alexander (born May 30, 1953) is an American artist, Christian writer, and Catechist from Dermott, Arkansas, Chicot County.

Alexander is best known for his elaborately colored, black & white "pen and ink" drawings in his "crosshatching" style and acrylic paintings.

He received notoriety and a personal award for his personal interpretation of a "Clinton Family Portrait" oil painting, which he gave to US President Bill Clinton in 1995.

It is now part of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, collection.

He is also known for the Arkansas Schools Tours, which he appeared on from 1996 to 2006.

He has written several bible commentary books on the Christian Bible, and in recent years he has become best known for his writings and teachings on Christianity.

Personal life

Alexander and his wife Patricia live in Texas. They have four children: Ken, Leandra, Kawanna, and Patrice.

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Early life and career

Larry Alexander, a child born in the small rural town of Dermott, Arkansas, to Robert and Janie Alexander, is the fourth of ten children and the second of his parents' union. His father was a truck driver and his mother, a beautician, was a beautician. Alexander began drawing at the age of four. When growing up, he never received any formal art instruction at any level of his education, as none was available in his small rural hometown. Alexander graduated from Dermott High School in May 1971 and then transferred to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where he studied Architectural Interior Design at Pine Bluff Vocational Technical School, now Southeast Arkansas College. He also attended Richland College in Dallas, Texas, where he studied AutoCAD.

Six pieces of his "Dermott Series," a series of paintings he created about his childhood home of Dermott, Arkansas, are now part of the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Alexander's work is influenced by his experiences in life, including growing up in the rural south in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as his time in Detroit, Michigan during the 1970s and 1980s.

Alexander left Pine Bluff, Michigan, after two years of school to seek jobs in his desired field. However, he was unsuccessful in the short run, and instead, he began working in a Chrysler auto assembly plant and became fascinated with automobile innerworkings. He went on to become a licensed mechanic, a trade he worked at for the next seventeen years. Although living in Detroit, he eventually married Patricia, and the family and their family then moved to Irving, Texas, where he opened his own auto repair shop and operated it until 1991.

For the first time in fifteen years, he was inspired by Patricia. His career as a professional artist can be traced back to this period, when he developed his "pen and ink" style, which he describes as "crosshatching," and used it to produce several lines of greeting cards under his current name, "Alexander Greeting Cards Company." In 1991, he coined the phrase "The Expression Line" for his first series of greeting cards, but did not trademark the word. As a result, Hallmark Cards has now used the word on a line of their cards since 1997. His product line should not be confused or associated with their product line. "Renetta," "Girlfriends," "Cowboy Fiddler," "Young Kennedys"), and "Roundup" were among his "pen and ink" fine art created between 1991 and 1994. On his "Fine-arTshirt" T-shirt line of the mid-nineties, he also used some of his drawings.

Alexander is also a "realist painter" who works in a variety of media styles, including oils, acrylics, and watercolors. He is a self-taught artist who works mainly in galleries that give mainstream exposure to a large number of people, including festivals, bookstores, museums, art galleries, art galleries, and even U.S. Post Office branches on occasion.

Alexander completed and unveiled his "Dermott Series," a 20-piece series of oil and acrylic paintings that gave a nostalgic glimpse back at his childhood in rural southeast Arkansas. The paintings include photographs of people, buildings, and places of Dermott, Arkansas, such as a cotton gin, his childhood home, where he went to school, and other subjects. "I did the Dermott Series for various personal reasons," Alexander said at the time, and I'm overwhelmed by the outpouring of response here in Texas. Among other items on the series include: "Birthplace," "Where I grew up," "Picking Cotton," "Dotton Gin," "In the kitchen with mama," "In the kitchen with mama," and the old Chicot County High School.

Alexander unveiled his "Detroit Series," a series of oil and acrylic paintings of many places in Detroit, Michigan, at the American Black Artist Institute's West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan. The nine piece series includes paintings on Belle Isle Park, the Detroit skyline, the Detroit River, and Hitsville, USA (the original home of Motown Records), the Greektown Historic District, the old Tiger Stadium (Detroit), and the old J.L. Coleman A. Johnson, a former mayor of Hudson, was on display in the Hudson building. Many youngsters and many more.

During "the Arkansas Schools Tours," Alexander introduced his "Delta Series," which was entirely acrylics-painted. Stop stops in Greenville, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee, were added to the tour this year. This series featured paintings of the Mississippi Alluvial Plains region, from Monroe, Louisiana, to Memphis. Among other things, it includes a portrait of Graceland, Elvis Presley's childhood home, the historic Greenville Courthouse in Greenville, a glimpse of Beale Street in Memphis, and his classic interpretation of a "Cotton Farm." In 2004, an earlier piece from the Delta Collection, "Aunt Eira Mae," was donated to the African American Museum's permanent collection (Dallas, Texas).

Alexander has also contributed to art departments of schools and colleges. Alexander showed a piece from one of his series "The series of P.A.T.R.I.C.E" at Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas, in October 1996, at halftime at the inaugural football game, branded as the "Mobil Gridiron Classic."

Since being completed in 1993, Alexander's most popular Pen and Ink art series, "The Sixties Series," has been on view in schools, libraries, and art galleries in several countries. It consists of detailed drawings of well-known figures and events of the 1960s, including the 1965 civil rights Selma to Montgomery marches, and portraits of Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon Johnson, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, and Rosa Parks. The Vietnam War is also chronicled in this collection.

The collection's theme pieces include a piece titled "Composite Sixties" and one titled "Composite Protests," which make up a collection of people, places, and events from the 1960s. To name a few, they include photographs of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon, the United States presidents who served during the 1960s, as well as J. Edgar Hoover, Jackie Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, many of the American demonstrations during the turbulent decade.

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