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Alvin Ross was born in Vineland, New Jersey in 1920. Ross graduated from the Tyler School of Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia in 1944 and also studied at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. Shortly thereafter, he moved to New York City where he studied with Louis Bouche, Franklin Watkins, Peggy Bacon and Earl Horter. Alvin first traveled to Europe in 1949 and attended the Academia di Bella Arti in Florence, Italy in 1951. Ross later became the Chairman of the History of Art Department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and was a lecturer on the History of Art and Architecture at the New School for Social Research and the New York School of Interior Design, New York City.