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Fred Sexton (June 3, 1907 – September 11, 1995) was an American artist and creator of the Maltese Falcon statuette prop for the 1941 Warner Bros. film production, ''The Maltese Falcon''. During the 1930s and 1940s, Sexton was championed by ''Los Angeles Times'' Art Critic Arthur Millier, and his work was collected by Los Angeles-area art collectors including actor Edward G. Robinson and movie director John Huston. Sexton also taught art and headed the Art Students League in Los Angeles between 1949 and 1953. == Career and exhibitions == File:Bridge painting Fred Sexton (ca. 1940).jpg|Los Angeles River Series (ca. 1940s) File:Violin study-still life by Fred Sexton.jpeg|Violin study (ca. 1940s) File:Still life of bricks and rubble by Fred Sexton.jpg|Still life (ca. 1940s) File:Still life of sunflowers by Fred Sexton (ca. 1940).jpg|Still life (ca. 1940s) File:Fred Sexton bust of young girl.jpg|Bust of a young girl (ca. 1930s) Fred Sexton completed his first painting while still an adolescent. In 1929, Los Angeles Times Art Critic (Arthur Millier ) viewed a small self-portrait by Sexton at a Los Angeles County Museum of Art show called “The Younger Painters.” Millier wrote that the "special hero of the moment seems to us to be one James (sic) Sexton… He transcends the ordinary sounding subject matter, making of this tiny panel a painting at once decoratively beautiful and highly expressive." Sexton commenced studies under Stanton MacDonald-Wright at the (Art Students League of Los Angeles ), where he met Gwain Harriet Noot. The couple married in 1932 and relocated to France, where Sexton studied briefly with Morgan Russell. The Sextons had a child and Gwain and the baby returned to the U.S. in 1934. In 1935, Fred returned to the U.S. after a trip to Italy.〔 In 1935, Sexton’s paintings were exhibited at the (Stendahl Galleries ) in Los Angeles.〔 A ''Los Angeles Times'' review described Sexton’s work as “first-rank museum quality done by an almost unknown Los Angeles painter…masterpieces of the highest order.” Following "whistle stops" with the (Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP )) program during 1936 and 1937, Sexton had a show at the Jacob Zeitlin Bookshop in Los Angeles in 1938.〔 During World War II, Sexton taught art, worked for several film studios, and drove a taxi to support his family. In 1939, Sexton taught evening art classes with Archie Gamer, and during the 1940s, he taught at Jepson Art Institute, (California School of Design (Los Angeles) ), and Chouinard School of Art.〔 Sexton gained recognition for his floral delineations, still life, portrait, and architectural compositions. Many prominent Los Angelinos collected his works, including Edward G. Robinson, John Huston, Paulette Goddard, and the Hollywood patron Ruth Maitland.〔 According to the Los Angeles Times, Edward G. Robinson had "bought and hung among his famous Cézannes, Van Goghs and Renoirs three new paintings...from the brush of Los Angeles artist Fred Sexton." In May and June 1941, three of Sexton’s paintings were included in a Los Angeles Museum exhibition of 56 paintings including important French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Robinson.〔 In 1947, Sexton's paintings were featured in an exhibition at the John Decker Gallery in Los Angeles. In 1949, Sexton was invited to exhibit at the 21st Biennial Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.〔 Also in 1949, Sexton decided to revive the dormant Art Students League in Los Angeles, which reopened on September 20. Classes were held until 1953.〔 Afterwards, Sexton operated an import business, traveling frequently to Mexico. The Sextons divorced, and Fred later remarried and lived briefly in Palos Verdes. In 1950, he moved with his wife to Mexico. There, he divorced and remarried once more, and had another daughter.〔 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「Fred Sexton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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