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Ronald Moody (12 August 1900 – 6 February 1984) was a Jamaican-born sculptor, specialising in wood carvings. His work features in prestigious collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London and Tate Britain, as well as the National Gallery of Jamaica. ==Biography== Moody was born Ronald Clive Moody in 1900 in Kingston, Jamaica, into a well-off professional family. He attended Calabar College, Jamaica, moving to London in 1923 to study dentistry at King's College London, obtaining his degree in 1930. In London, he was inspired by the British Museum's collection of non-Western art and decided to become a sculptor. Early experiments with clay led him to teach himself how to carve. He produced his first carved figure in oak wood. Entitled ''Wohin'' (meaning in German “where to?”, the name of a song by Schubert),〔Manheim, James, ("Moody, Ronald 1900–1984" ), ''Contemporary Black Biography'', 2002.〕 that sculpture was bought by Marie Seton in 1935.〔Indepth Arts News: ("Ronald Moody 1900 – 1984: A Reputation Restored" ), 2002.〕 Among his most famous works from this period was his great female head, (''Midonz'' ) (1937). By the late 1930s, Moody had accumulated an impressive collection of work and had a solo show in Paris. The success of the show encouraged him to move to Paris in 1938. That year, twelve major sculptures were sent to the Harmon Foundation in the United States to be included in exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Dallas Museum of Art. His success in France was cut short by the onset of the Second World War. In 1940, two days before Paris was fell to the Germans, Moody was forced to flee the city, abandoning his sculptures.〔(Ronald Moody - Artist biography ), Tate website.〕 (They were retrieved after the war, along with 12 works that had been sent to the US for exhibition.)〔("Ronald Moody" ), ''The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art'', Oxford University Press, at Answers.com.〕 After having escaped from Paris, Moody travelled through occupied France, across the Pyrenees into Spain, and eventually arrived back in England in October 1941.〔 Moody's Paris success followed him to London, where he resumed his work after the war and had a one-man show in May 1946 at the Arcade Gallery, off Bond Street.〔("Black British artists who have risen to prominence post-1945" ), Black British History Extract 2.〕 He cast in bronze a head of his eldest brother Harold Moody (1882-1947, founder of the League of Coloured Peoples) in 1946.〔National Portrait Gallery reference 6380〕 From 1950 until the early 1960s regular London exhibitions brought Ronald Moody a growing presence on the British art scene. In 1964 he created a sculpture called ''Savacou'' for the University of the West Indies.〔(Petrine Archer website. )〕 He died in London in 1984. 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「Ronald Moody」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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