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Stokely Webster (1912 – 2001) was best known as an American impressionist painter who studied in Paris. His paintings can be found in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the White House, Gracie Mansion in New York, the Senate Office Building, and the Museum of the City of New York.〔http://www.stokelywebster.com〕 == Youth == As a child, Stokely Webster left his birthplace of Evanston, Illinois to travel with his family to Paris, France where he was enthralled by the paintings of the French impressionists and post-impressionists and embarked on his own fledgling efforts at ''plein-air'' cityscapes.〔Museum of the City of New York - http://www.mcny.org/collections/painting/pttcat90.htm〕 In 1922 he spent a year in France where he saw Monet at work in his Giverny garden and viewed his paintings at the Luxembourg Palace. He decided at that time to be a painter. His first studies were that same year with Lawton Parker, an American artist who had studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme and James McNeill Whistler. He taught young Webster the century-old traditions of painting, generally accepted up until World War II.〔“Stokely Webster and His Paris,” published 2001〕 After returning to America in 1924, he dedicated the next ten years to educating himself through a succession of art-school courses, studying architecture at Yale University and spending two years in Chicago, Illinois working as a textile designer.〔 Webster was a student at Columbia University, National Academy of Design, and the Yale School of Fine Art.〔(Stokely Webster - Artist, Art - Stokely Webster )〕 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「Stokely Webster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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