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Stan Masters (July 4, 1922 – December 13, 2005) was an American realist painter from the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, Missouri.〔Burkett, Susan. "Stan Masters". ''Kirkwood Historical Review'', Volume XLV. Kirkwood Historical Society, Fall 2006, p. 3.〕 ==Life of Stan Masters== Masters was the son and grandson of railroad workers. Raised during the Great Depression in the one-room Missouri Pacific Railroad section house located between the railroad tracks in downtown Kirkwood, his home had no running water or electricity. Trains passed within 6 feet of the porch.〔Dunn-Morton, Julie. ''160 Years of Art at the St. Louis Mercantile Library''. University of Missouri Press, 2007, p. 102.〕 After the United States' entrance into World War II, Masters left Kirkwood for the Army in 1942. After being stationed in Pennsylvania, he served combat duty in Italy in 1944 and 1945. After the war, Masters applied to art schools in 1946. Rejected by schools in St. Louis, he returned to Pennsylvania to attend the Dauphin School of Fine Arts in Philadelphia on the GI Bill.〔Burkett, Susan. "Stan Masters". ''Kirkwood Historical Review'', Volume XLV. Kirkwood Historical Society, Fall 2006, p. 10.〕 Masters returned to St. Louis in 1948 where he spent the next 20 years working in commercial art at various advertising agencies. In 1962, Masters made a short film called ''The Storm'', which won five awards from the Photographic Society of America and also won at the Cannes Film Festival in the Amateur Division in 1963.〔Dunn-Morton, Julie. ''160 Years of Art at the St. Louis Mercantile Library''. University of Missouri Press, 2007, p. 102.〕 In 1970, Masters decided to devote his career entirely to his art. By 1971, he had committed himself exclusively to watercolor. Despite favorable reviews from critics, and having won both local and national awards,〔''The Arts''. "Stan Masters' America, Watercolors in the Great American Tradition", October, 1978.〕 Masters' watercolors did not sell well in his lifetime. Perhaps discouraged by the commercial market, Masters retreated to the solitude of his studio at his home in Maplewood, Missouri. Much of his portfolio was later discovered in his studio, unseen by others, after his death in 2005.〔Morrissey, Robert; "Stan Masters: Midwestern Realist", Millikin University, 2007〕 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「Stan Masters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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