Alexis Jean Fournier (1865 - 1948) American Oil on Canvas with Museum Glass Measure 9 1/2"in H x 12 1/2"in W and 13 1/2"in H x 16 1/2"in W with frame Known for: Impressionist seasonal landscape, still life, genre painting Name variants: Alexis Jean (J) Fornier Biography: Alexis Jean Fournier (1865-1948): American Arts and Crafts / Impressionist Painter. Alexis Jean Fournier is an American-born Arts and Crafts and Impressionist painter. He was the chosen painter of the Roycroft group—the Arts and Crafts movement in America—and its leader Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915). Fournier grew up in Wisconsin. He moved to Minneapolis at age fourteen to become a sign painter. He sought formal training at the Minneapolis School of Art under Douglas Volk [1856-1935] and later in 1893 at the Academie Julian in Paris. In 1891, Fournier traveled to the American Southwest with patron H. Jay Smith to make a study of the landscape to paint a 50 foot mural for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. He is known to have painted along the Mississippi River, in Minneapolis, in Brown County as part of the Brown County Impressionist painters of Indiana and in East Aurora, near Buffalo, NY in association with the Roycroft colony. In 1948, Fournier died from injuries sustained from slipping on an icy sidewalk.