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Richard "Dick" Wray (5 December 1933 - 9 January 2011〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Wray-77-leader-in-Houston-art-scene-1587952.php )〕) was an American abstract expressionist painter whose work had an influence on the art scene in Houston, Texas.〔〔〔 After an art career spanning over 50 years, he died at age 77 of liver disease. His work continues to be showcased by art institutions and organizations across Houston, including the William Reaves Gallery, and is listed on the official website for the National Gallery of Art.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/artist-info.5843.html?artobj_artistId=5843&pageNumber=1 )〕 == Early life and education == Dick Wray was born in Houston, Texas in 1933. He was the oldest child of Bundy and Mildred Wray, who both worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. His mother was known to have encouraged him to take art classes at an early age. Wray had one sibling: a brother named Robert Wray.〔 Wray's first gravitation toward art occurred during his early teens, when he took free art lessons at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. After graduating from Lamar High School in 1953, he enlisted in the United States Army, where he served as a radio operator for 2 years.〔 In 1955, Wray received an honorable discharge from the Army and enrolled in the School of Architecture of the University of Houston. There, he would spend the next 3 years studying various forms of architecture, until leaving the school to finish his studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf, Germany.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dickwrayartist.net/biography/ )〕 Wray travelled to Europe in 1958 in order to discover what he believed was the "center" of the art world.〔 The two years he spent in Europe—beginning in Paris and concluding in Germany—laid the foundation for his painting career. Though originally interested in architecture, Wray's interactions with the work of abstract expressionists, artists of a European avant-garde movement known as the CoBrA group and New York Abstract Expressionists (which Wray also saw for the first time in Europe) had tremendous influences on his artistic passions. In effect, Wray deviated away from architecture and, equipped with new knowledge of European expressionism, returned to Texas at age 26 to begin his career as a painter.〔 Wray launched his career in 1959 by competing in an art show at what is now the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont.〔 From thereon after, he exhibited his expressionist paintings in an art gallery or museum at least once per year for 51 consecutive years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dickwrayartist.net/684-2/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://glasstire.com/2011/01/09/dick-wray-1933-2011/ )〕 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「Dick Wray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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