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George Hand Wright (1872–1951) was an American painter, illustrator and printmaker. ==Life== Born in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a blacksmith, he attended the Spring Garden Institute, a local technical school, and was apprenticed to a lithographer. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Robert Vonnoh, where his classmates included Robert Henri, John Sloan and William Glackens. He moved to New York City, and his first illustration appeared in ''Scribner's Magazine'' in 1893. He illustrated a number of books, and his work soon appeared regularly in magazines such as ''Scribner's, Harper's, Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post'', and others. He married Anne Boylan, and in 1907 they settled in Westport, Connecticut. He became one of the founders of its artistic community.〔Marshall S. Berndan, "40 People Who Made a Difference," ''Westport Magazine'', January 2007.()〕 In mid-career, he turned from commercial illustration to watercolors, pastels and etchings. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Society of Etchers, the Society of American Etchers, and a number of New York galleries. He was a member of the Society of American Etchers, the Society of Illustrators, the Salmagundi Club and the Westport Artists. In 1939, he was elected to the National Academy of Design. Wright died in Westport in 1951. The Library of Congress has a collection of more than one hundred of his illustrations.〔(George Hand Wright ) from Jordan Delhaise Gallery.〕 A biography, ''George Hand Wright: An Artist's Life Examined'' by Kirsten M. Jensen, was published in 2008.() File:The binding of Fenrir by George Wright.jpg|"The binding of Fenrir," illustration from Hamilton Wright Mabie, ''Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas'' (1908). File:George Hand Wright 1914.jpg|U.S. Navy recruiting poster, circa 1914-18. File:A slicker.jpg|"A Slicker", illustration from Harper's Magazine, March 1918. 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「George Hand Wright」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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