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Blair R Hughes-Stanton (London 22 February 1902 – 6 June 1981) was a major figure in the English wood engraving revival in the twentieth century. He was the son of the artist Sir Herbert Hughes-Stanton. He exhibited with the Society of Wood Engravers, but was more in sympathy with the philosophy of the English Wood Engraving Society, of which he was a founding member in 1925.〔Joanna Selborne, 'The Society of Wood Engravers: the early years' in ''Craft History 1'' (1988), published by Combined Arts.〕 He co-directed the Gregynog Press from 1930 to 1933 with his wife, Gertrude Hermes. ==The early years== At the age of 13 Hughes-Stanton, unable to face the prospect of home life with his three sisters,〔 joined the Royal Navy training ship HMS ''Coway''. At the age of 19 he switched direction completely after a conversation with his father, the Royal Academician Sir Herbert Hughes-Stanton, and joined the Byam Shaw School of Art. There he came under the influence of Leon Underwood and, in 1921, he moved to Underwood's Brook Green School.〔Christopher Neve, ''Leon Underwood'' (London, Thames and Hudson, 1974), ISBN 0-500-09099-8.〕 In 1922 he joined the Royal Academy Schools, but Underwood remained the dominant influence on him. At Brook Green the American wood engraver Marion Mitchell introduced him to wood engraving, which set the direction of his life. Underwood and he were kindred spirits, to such an extent that, in 1925, Underwood left Hughes-Stanton in charge of the Brook Green School when he went to America.〔 Hughes-Stanton met Eric Kennington, who introduced him to T.E. Lawrence.〔 Hughes-Stanton was commissioned to engrave ten tail-pieces for the monumental limited edition of ''The Seven Pillars of Wisdom'' (1926). Some extra special copies had a full-page engraving by Hughes-Stanton for the dedicatory poem to "S.A.".〔 Other commissions followed and, in the next few years, he illustrated with wood engravings three tall folios for the Cresset Press - ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' (1928), ''The Apocrypha'' (1929) and D.H. Lawrence's ''Birds, Beasts and Flowers'' (1930). In 1925 he fell in love with Gertrude Hermes, a fellow student at Brook Green and another member of the Underwood inner circle. In 1926 he sold his copy of ''The Seven Pillars of Wisdom'' for £100 and married her.〔 They had two children, Judith (born 1927) and Simon (born 1928). 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「Blair Hughes-Stanton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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