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Doris Patty Rosenthal (July 10, 1889 – November 26, 1971) was an American painter, printmaker, designer, and educator, who made solitary explorations into remote areas of Mexico in search of indigenous peoples. Over several decades beginning in the 1930s, Rosenthal made hundreds of sketches in charcoal and pastel depicting the everyday life and domestic activities of Indian and mestizo peasant culture, which she later used to create large-scale studio paintings. LIFE magazine featured Rosenthal’s art and travels in Mexico in a five-page spread in 1943.〔"Doris Rosenthal: Schoolteacher Paints Lovable Pictures of Mexicans," Life (November 22, 1943): 64-68.〕 The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Rosenthal a fellowship in 1931 to do creative work in painting in Mexico, where she was to live for two years beginning in August 1931.〔“Doris Rosenthal,” Guggenheim: www.gf.org/fellows/12542-doris-rosenthal〕 Thereafter, she made yearly trips to the country residing in small villages during the summer months. The Guggenheim Foundation awarded her a second fellowship for further work in Mexico in 1936.〔“Guggenheim Fund Makes 60 Awards,” ''New York Times'' (March 30, 1936):13.〕 Rosenthal moved permanently to Mexico in 1957, and died in the city of Oaxaca in 1971.〔“Doris Rosenthal, an Art Teacher and Painter of Mexico, is Dead,” ''New York Times'' (Nov. 28, 1971): 72.〕 ==Early Life and Career== Rosenthal was born in Riverside, California, in 1889 into a prosperous Jewish family and raised on a ranch. Her father, Emil Julius Rosenthal, had settled in Riverside in 1872 from Alsace, France, and married Anna Unruh.〔“The Early Pioneer Jews of Riverside, California,” Jewish Museum of the American West. http://www.jmaw.org/jews-pioneer-riverside/〕 Rosenthal launched her career as an artist in Los Angeles in the 1910s, when progressive trends were emerging in southern California art. Rosenthal was close to Helena Dunlap, the pioneer Los Angeles modernist and founder in 1916 of the Los Angeles Modern Art Society, one of the first modernist groups to form in the region.〔Susan M. Anderson, ''California Progressives'', 1910-1930 (Newport Beach, California: Orange County Museum of Art, 1996), 10-11; and Sarah Vure,"A Passion to Create: Impressionism to Modernism in Southern California Art 1910-1930" in ''Circles of Influence: Impressionism to Modernism in Southern California Art, 1910-1930'' (Newport Beach, California: Orange County Museum of Art, 2000), 60-66.〕 Rosenthal and Dunlap traveled to Taos, New Mexico in 1917. There, they briefly resided and exhibited alongside the leading American painters George Bellows, Robert Henri and others in the inaugural exhibition in Santa Fe’s new Fine Arts Museum.〔"El Palacio, Journal of the Museum of New Mexico", (Vol. IV, January 1917): 104; and "El Palacio" (Vol. IV November 1917): 95.〕 Rosenthal exhibited in the California Art Club spring exhibitions at the Los Angeles Museum in 1917 and 1919, showing ''Indian Women of Taos'' in 1917.〔http://www.californiaartclub.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions-1909-2000/〕 Rosenthal went to New York to study at the Art Students League with Bellows and John Sloan in 1917-1918, and attended classes in the studio of the broad-minded bohemian, George Luks.〔Oral history interview with Phil Dike, 1965 June 9, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.〕 In 1920, she worked as a commercial designer of silks in order to fund a trip to Europe.〔Scheper, Jeanne, "Doris Rosenthal," Jewish Women's Archive. (Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009): 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「Doris Patty Rosenthal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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