Alexis J. Fournier, a Barbizon style painter

At the Roycroft Inn and in the Roycroft Copper Shop you can find paintings by Alexis J. Fournier.

Fournier was the " Roycroft Court Painter"  for over forty years. His house and studio is a private home is East Aurora just behind the Roycroft Campus. He is often referred to as a Barbizon-style artist.

The Barbizon school (cirica 1830-1870) of painters is named after the village of Barbizon near Fontainebleau Forest, France.  The Barbizon painters were part of a movement towards realism. 

Image: Meibohm Fine Art

Alexis Jean Fournier

(American, 1865-1948)

Untitled-'Landscape'

7-3/8 x 11

Oil on Canvas Board

Signed lower right

2300.00 (sold)

We invite you to come visit both places located on South Grove Street in East Aurora, NY.  Docents at the Inn and Campus can tell you more about Alex Fournier paintings and murals. 

Julie

Comments

[Pat Lawrence]

My grandfather was Alexis J. Fournier. He was married to my grandmother Coral Lawrence in their later years. Their home was a cottage near the Roycroft Inn that had an actual tree growing through the porch roof. They had cut a hole in the roof so that they would not have to cut the tree down. Many of his paintings were of his gardens at the cottage and the "rain barrel."