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Zoë Dusanne (née Zola Maie Graves; 1884 - 1972) was an American art dealer, collector, and promoter who operated the Zoë Dusanne Gallery in Seattle, Washington from 1950 to 1964.〔Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972), Modern-art dealer, by Paula Becker; http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5222〕 ==Life and career== Dusanne was born Zola Maie Graves on March 24, 1884, in Newton, Kansas.〔Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972), by Deborah McNally; http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/dusanne-zoe-1884-1972〕〔Zoë Dusanne: An Art Dealer Who Made a Difference, p.4, by Jo Ann Ridley; Fithian Press, 2011〕 From the age of nine she was raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa.〔Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972), Modern-art dealer, by Paula Becker; http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5222〕 She briefly attended both Oberlin College and the University of Illinois.〔Zoë Dusanne: An Art Dealer Who Made a Difference, pp7-8, by Jo Ann Ridley; Fithian Press, 2011〕 In 1912, she moved to Seattle, where she operated a beauty salon.〔Zoë Dusanne: An Art Dealer Who Made a Difference, p.11, by Jo Ann Ridley; Fithian Press, 2011〕〔Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972), Modern-art dealer, by Paula Becker; http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5222〕 In 1928, she moved to New York City and began collecting works by modern abstract artists such as Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Stuart Davis, Jean Arp, and Giorgio de Chirico.〔Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972), Modern-art dealer, by Paula Becker; http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5222〕〔Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972), by Deborah McNally; http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/dusanne-zoe-1884-1972〕 On her return to Seattle in 1942, she began promoting advanced contemporary art, which had not previously been widely exhibited in the Pacific Northwest.〔Paul Horiuchi: East and West, p.37, by Barbara Johns; University of Washington Press, 2008〕〔Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972), by Deborah McNally; http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/dusanne-zoe-1884-1972〕〔Life magazine sheds limelight on Northwest School painters on September 28, 1953, by Paula Becker and Priscilla Long; http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5342〕 She loaned pieces from her growing collection to the Seattle Art Museum and the Henry Art Gallery,〔Zoë Dusanne: An Art Dealer Who Made a Difference, p.42, by Jo Ann Ridley; Fithian Press, 2011〕 and in 1950, opened the Zoë Dusanne Gallery.〔Zoë Dusanne: An Art Dealer Who Made a Difference, p.53, by Jo Ann Ridley; Fithian Press, 2011〕〔Paul Horiuchi: East and West, p.37, by Barbara Johns; University of Washington Press, 2008〕〔Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972), Modern-art dealer, by Paula Becker; http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5222〕 She was an avid supporter of Northwest-based artists such as Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, Paul Horiuchi, Philip McCracken, Mark Tobey, and George Tsutakawa, and played an important role in bringing national attention to the 'Northwest School'.〔Zoë Dusanne: An Art Dealer Who Made a Difference, pp58-59, by Jo Ann Ridley; Fithian Press, 2011〕〔The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West, pp107-108, by Wesley Wehr; University of Washington Press, 2000〕 Her gallery was the first in North America to mount shows by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama〔Zoë Dusanne: An Art Dealer Who Made a Difference, p.99, by Jo Ann Ridley; Fithian Press, 2011〕〔The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West, p.111, by Wesley Wehr; University of Washington Press, 2000〕 and French artist/poet Henri Michaux,〔Zoë Dusanne: An Art Dealer Who Made a Difference, pp74-75, by Jo Ann Ridley; Fithian Press, 2011〕〔The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West, p.111, by Wesley Wehr; University of Washington Press, 2000〕 and she was an early exhibitor of works by Sam Francis,〔Zoë Dusanne: An Art Dealer Who Made a Difference, p.83, by Jo Ann Ridley; Fithian Press, 2011〕〔The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West, p.111, by Wesley Wehr; University of Washington Press, 2000〕 Karl Otto Götz,〔Zoë Dusanne: An Art Dealer Who Made a Difference, p.87, by Jo Ann Ridley; Fithian Press, 2011〕 John Franklin Koenig,〔Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art, by Deloris Tarzan Ament; University of Washington Press, 2002〕 and many others. In 1953, largely as a result of Dusanne's efforts, ''Life'' magazine ran a major article on the "Mystic Painters of the Northwest", which propelled Tobey, Graves, Callahan, and Anderson to national prominence.〔Life magazine sheds limelight on Northwest School painters on September 28, 1953. HistoryLink.org Essay 5342, by Paula Becker and Priscilla Long, 2003; http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_ id=5342 retvd 6 9 14〕 In 1959, the custom-built Zoe Dusanne Gallery was demolished for construction of the Interstate 5 freeway; a second location lasted until 1964, at which time Dusanne retired.〔Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972), Modern-art dealer, by Paula Becker; http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5222〕〔The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West, p.114, by Wesley Wehr; University of Washington Press, 2000〕 She died in Seattle on March 6, 1972.〔Zoë Dusanne: An Art Dealer Who Made a Difference, p.121, by Jo Ann Ridley; Fithian Press, 2011〕〔Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972), Modern-art dealer, by Paula Becker; http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5222〕 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「Zoe Dusanne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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