藝術家Frederick Lester SEXTON (1889-1975) 生平簡歷

出生地： Cheshire, CT

地址： Lyme, CT, 1936-on; New Haven, CT

职业： Landscape painter, teacher, lecturer

教育： Yale School FA with Sergeant Kendall, Edwin Taylor, A.V. Tack (Winchester Traveling Fellow, 1915; B.F.A., 1917)

展出： Univ. Connecticut, 1929 (solo); Yale Sch. FA, 1930 (solo); New Haven PCC, 1922-49 (prizes in 1923, 1927, 1940, 1943), 1975 (memorial solo); Meriden Arts & Crafts Assn, 1941 (portrait prize); CAFA, 1927 (prize), 1938 (prize), 1944 (Carney Prize); NAD, 1929, 1934, 1941; SC, 1929-75; Lyme AA, 1939-72, 1975 (memorial solo); Hartford Salmagundians; Munson Gal., New Haven, 1930s-40s (4 solos); Newton Gal., NYC, 1936, 1940 (solos); Lyman Allyn Mus.; Bridgeport AA; Corcoran Gal biennial, 1949; East Hampton (LI) AA; St. Johns by the Sea, 1967 (prize); Conn. Gal., Marlborough, 1987 (retrospective)

会员： SC, 1929; Lyme AA, 1936-72; New Haven Paint & Clay Club, 1922-on; Meriden Arts & Crafts Club; CAFA

工作： New Haven PCC; Yale-New Haven Hospital, Hopkins School; New Haven City Hall; St. Margaret's School, Waterbury; Univ. Connecticut, Storrs; St. John's Mem. Chapel, Waterbury, CT; LACMA.

评论： Most of his landscapes were painted in the region between New Haven and Old Lyme, CT. He was active with the Old Lyme colony of artists beginning in the late 1920s-early 1930s, and painted in a bold but realist Post-Impressionist style, often employing a palette knife. As a baby, he was severely burned in a fire, and, although his right hand was permanently closed, this did not affect his ability to paint throughout his life ó or to build his own 28-ft sailing yacht, in 1955. After studying at Yale, he served in WWI as an ambulance driver; upon his return in 1919, painting became his profession. He also taught widely at schools in the New Haven area.

来源： WW59; WW47; Art in Conn.: Between World Wars; Helen Fusscas, exh. cat. (Conn. Gal., Marlborough, 1987)