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Patrick McCaughey (born 1942 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Australian art historian and academic. McCaughey migrated with his family to Melbourne, Australia when he was ten years old. His secondary education was at Scotch College, Melbourne. He resided at Ormond College, University of Melbourne, where he studied Fine Arts and English Literature. He became Art Critic for the Melbourne ''Age'' in 1966. He was well known for his advocacy of abstract expressionism and of Australian artists, in particular Fred Williams. On return to Australia from a year-long Harkness Fellowship in New York, he was appointed as the first professor of Fine Arts and Monash University in 1962.〔 From 1981 he was the Director of the National Gallery of Victoria. He was married to Winsome McCaughey for a time.〔http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19860807&id=UKpWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DOgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3482,4288841〕 In 1988 he left Australia for the United States, where he held positions including Director of the Wadsworth Atheneum (1988–96),〔(Wadsworth Atheneum ). Retrieved 17 October 2014〕 the Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University, and the director of the Yale Center for British Art.〔〔 McCaughey retired in Connecticut with his partner Donna Curran. He continues to write, whilst his partner runs a restaurant. 〔http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/questions-patrick-mccaughey-art-historian-71/story-e6frg8h6-1227111229825〕 ==Bibliography== 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「Patrick McCaughey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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