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Frank Stout (February 17, 1926 – April 13, 2012〔http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/06/art/frank-stout-1926-2012〕) was an American figurative artist associated with post-abstract expressionist realism. He is best known for his psychologically penetrating, witty and deeply compassionate portraits of individuals and large groups, and soulful landscapes executed with a painterly technique. He is also known for flowing figure sculpture in a variety of media, and his pastel drawings. He lived in Vermont and Tuscany. ==Life== Frank Stout was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1926. After a stint in navy training, he won a place at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on the G.I. Bill (1949–1950). He married Constance Lyle in 1951, and moved to New York. As well as full-time painting, he did drafting work for architects I.M. Pei & Associates, a skill later enabling him to design his own modernist home in Vermont. He travelled to Peru in 1954, invited to exhibit at the Society of Architects, and was awarded a commission from the American Embassy in Lima. On returning to Manhattan, Constance died. Stout married Chaewoon Koh, in 1960, and an only child was born, (Mira Stout: a writer ()); both of whom appear as portrait subjects throughout his career. Stout's first US solo show came in 1960 at the Tanager Gallery in New York, showcasing many of the'' avant garde'' then gathered around the 10th Street galleries and the Cedar Tavern. Friends and neighbours included Robert Rauschenberg, Alex Katz, Wolf Kahn, Emily Mason, Marisol, Lois Dodd, and Willem de Kooning. His career developed on through a series of solo exhibits at the Dorsky Gallery on Madison Avenue, continuing until dealer Sam Dorsky's death in 1966, when Stout accepted an appointment as Artist-in-Residence at Marlboro College in Vermont ().After a hiatus from showing in New York, he returned to one-man exhibitions with the Landmark Gallery in Soho in the late '70's-early '80's, with shows of flowing figure sculpture, mainly in terracotta, wire, and poured plaster. He then showed both sculpture and painting at a number of East Coast museums and galleries, including the Queens Museum, Fleming Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield (MA), MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Princeton galleries, University of Maine, and the Kornbluth Gallery. A fire in the late '70s destroyed much of Stout's work. He went on to produce a prodigious body of new paintings and sculpture; including his seminal 'Convention Pictures'; Americana landscapes; supermarket still-lives; and a wide variety of sculpture (). He combined this intense productivity with his appointment to Chair of the Art Department at Marlboro. In 1981-82 Stout spent a year in Tuscany teaching art; a lasting influence on his life and work. He and his wife Chaewoon purchased a property in the hills outside Siena, where they mostly lived until her death in 1987; Stout remained there, working intensively until 2006. He focussed mainly on Italianate subjects, and completed his 'Artists & Models Series', a cycle of artist-portraits from Canova to Freud (). While abroad, out of the mainstream art scene, he continued to receive honors and public commissions, including a controversial plaza sculpture installation at the Vermont State House ()--initially bronze nudes, revised to wildlife after an indecency outcry—plus commissioned state portraits, appointments to the Vermont Council on the Arts, The VT Studio School and The New England Foundation for the Arts. Stout continued to paint, sculpt and exhibit. He had retrospectives (2000, 2001 & 2008) in Vermont and New York City, with shows at the Painting Center and Lohin-Geduld Gallery in New York City, The Drury Gallery, Marlboro, and the Brattleboro Museum (BMAC). His work is featured in several permanent public collections across the US and abroad. Reviews and essays on Stout have appeared in 'The New York Times', 'The New York Observer', 'Brattleboro Reformer', 'American Artist' and 'Harpers' magazine, among other publications. Famously private and reclusive, Stout has granted few interviews.() Frank Stout received awards from the National Academy (HF Ranger Award) and American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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「Frank Stout (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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