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James Stuart MacDonald (28 March 187812 November 1952) was an Australian artist, art critic and Director of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1929 to 1937. ==Early life== MacDonald was born on 28 March 1878 in Carlton, Melbourne, the son of Solicitor Hector MacDonald and his American wife Anna Louisa, née Flett. He attended school at Kew High School and Hawthorn Grammar School, but proved unsuccessful in his studies. As a child, through family connections, MacDonald met many painters and in the mid-1890s studied at the National Gallery of Victoria's school.〔Geoffrey Serle, 'MacDonald, James Stuart (Jimmy) (1878 - 1952)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, 1986, pp 251-252.〕 MacDonald left Australia for London in 1898 to attend the Westminster School of Art. He then spent five years in Paris where he attended the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi. He exhibited his works at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Old Salon, Paris. He returned to Melbourne and married American arts student, Maud Keller on 4 August 1904. They moved to New York where he taught art until 1910 at a high school. Back in Australia he painted some portraits and landscapes and turned to drawing in charcoal and to lithographic portraits. On 9 September 1914, with the outbreak of the First World War, MacDonald enlisted in the 5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. With the rank of Private he served at Gallipoli where, on 26 April 1915, he was wounded in the abdomen and was classified unfit for active service. He served as a pay sergeant from 1916-1917 in England. In 1918 he worked as a camouflage artist with the 5th Division in France and was medically discharged from the army in April 1919. Returning to Australia, MacDonald took up art study, publishing works on Frederick McCubbin, Penleigh Boyd, David Davies and George Lambert. Having given up painting, from 1923 he was art critic for The Melbourne Herald. 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「James Stuart MacDonald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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