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Robert Bruce Inverarity (1909 - 1999) was an American artist, art educator, museum director, author, and anthropologist. He was the Washington State Director of the Federal Arts Project from 1936 to 1939 and the Washington Arts Project from 1939 to 1941,〔The Great Depression in Washington State-Pacific Northwest Labor & Civil Rights Projects|University of Washington:''The Federal Art Project in Washington State'' by Eleanor Mahoney;http://depts.washington.edu/depress/FAP.shtml retvd 6 6 2015〕 working with many noted Pacific Northwest artists. Fascinated with the Indian tribes of the Northwest from early youth, he amassed a major collection of North Pacific Coast Native art and authored several works on the subject.〔Stevens Fine Art website, artist biography; http://www.stevensfineart.com/bio.php?artistId=1260&artist=Robert%20Bruce%20Inverarity retvd 6 4 15〕 As an artist he was best known for his woodblock and linocut printmaking, and for his photographs of artist friends such as Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Rockwell Kent, and Mark Tobey. He developed and directed the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, and the Philadelphia Maritime Museum.〔Robert Bruce Inverarity papers, circa 1840s-1997; Smithsonian Archives of American Art; http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/robert-bruce-inverarity-papers-6796/more retvd 6 4 15〕 ==Early life== Robert Bruce Inverarity was born July 5, 1909, in Seattle, Washington,〔askArt, Robert Inverarity artist biography; http://www.askart.com/artist/Robert_Bruce_Inverarity/74817/Robert_Bruce_Inverarity.aspx retvd 6 5 2015〕 the son of Duncan George Inverarity and Rosalind Wallace Dunlop Inverarity. His father was a manager and promoter of the Northwest vaudevillean theater circuit, and was a prominent member of various Seattle civic and social organizations; he had also served as an assistant to photographer Edward S. Curtis on the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899.〔University Libraries, University of Washington; Preliminary Guide to the Robert Bruce Inverarity Papers;http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/view?docId=InverarityRobertBruce4445.xml retvd 6 5 2015〕 The family lived in Canada during much of Bruce's youth, but moved back to Seattle when he was a teenager. From boyhood he had been interested in both art and Native American culture, and after graduating from Garfield High School in 1928〔 he undertook a 500-mile hike along the coasts of Vancouver Island, studying the legends of local Indian tribes and collecting artifacts.〔Social networks and archival context: Inverarity, Robert Bruce (1909-1999); http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w61263md retvd 6 5 2015〕 By age eighteen the blonde, six-and-a-half foot tall, pipe-smoking young artist had already achieved a degree of local notoriety. A 1928 newspaper profile described him as “one of the most unusual people in Seattle, no matter how you look at him. He’s Seattle’s youngest recognized artist. He’s taking an active part in introducing ‘modern art’ to a city that knew him as a school boy.”〔 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「Robert Bruce Inverarity」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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