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Austin Andrew Wright (4 Jun 1911, Chester - 22 Feb 1997, Upper Poppleton, York) was a British sculptor and teacher. ==Life== Wright was brought up in Cardiff where he took his first artistic steps in evening classes at Cardiff Art School before studying Modern Languages at New College, Oxford. Following his teacher training his first post was at The Downs, the Malvern College preparatory school, in 1934, where he taught painting and sculpture as well as French and German. W.H. Auden was a fellow teacher there. He moved to Yorkshire in 1937 and lived and worked in York (where Auden was born), initially at Bootham School, where he had earlier undertaken his teacher-training and where he began working as a sculptor. Without any formal art training, Austin, according to James Hamilton, ''The sculpture of Austin Wright'', 1994. “approached Henry Moore for advice and encouragement, and recalled being told, quite bluntly, ''just to get on with it''.” He branched out into teaching art, subsequently moving to The Mount, where he met Sue Midgley. By the end of the war, and the conclusion of her training at the Central School of Speech and Drama, they married and moved, in 1946, into the 1793 house on the Green at Upper Poppleton that would become integral to his work.〔http://www.hartgallery.co.uk/artists/wright/index.htm Retrieved November 2011〕〔http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/exhibitions/8990291.Austin_Wright___s_Sculpture_and_Drawings__York_Art_Gallery_until_October_2/ Retrieved November 2011.〕 He was a pivotal figure in the development of sculpture from the 1940s onwards. By 1954 he had given up teaching to devote his time to sculpture and drawing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Austin Andrew Wright」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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