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Gale Fulton Ross is an African-American visual artist who lives in Sarasota, Florida. Primarily a painter, she also practices portraiture, printmaking, and sculpture. ==Life== Gale Fulton Ross was born in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1947, the oldest of nine children.〔()〕 She studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, where she explored a wide variety of styles and media including sculpture.〔()〕 She continued her art education at the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco, concentrating in the study of Fine Arts and art history.〔()〕 In addition to formal academic training she has studied under the guidance of established artists, including Melvin Johnson, at the Vesper George School of Art, Boston; Cleveland Bellow, of the DeYoung Museum, Oakland California; and Pierre Parsus,〔:fr:Pierre Parsus〕 of France, while a resident at the La Napoule Art Foundation.〔https://www.lnaf.org/residencies/alumni〕 Initially trained as an art curator, Fulton Ross traveled extensively throughout Africa, Europe, and as far east as China, in order to study and paint. She was a participant in the second World Festival of Black Arts in Lagos, Nigeria in 1977. In 1984, she was an artist in residence in Bellagio, Italy and produced an exhibition for the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio,〔http://www.fultonrossmag.com/museum.html〕 and in 1993 was the recipient of an award to work and study in the People's Republic of China. She developed a reputation early in her career as a portrait artist, and has created likenesses of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Justice Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, Arthur Ashe, and Governor Michael Dukakis, among others.〔(The Bershad Gallery )〕 In 2009, she was selected to paint a portrait of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber.〔"Women of the Hour", ''Sarasota Herald-Tribune'', January 28, 2009, p. 7B.〕 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「Gale Fulton Ross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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