形成天才的决定因素应该是勤奋。

——郭沫若

《昨天幸运签》

作品名称：Study for Mural Decoration (1918–20) 

艺术家名称：James Henry Daugherty (American, 1889 – 1974)

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关于艺术家

James Henry Daugherty 是美国现代主义画家、壁画家、儿童读物作者和插画家。他住在俄亥俄州的印第安纳州，9 岁时搬到华盛顿特区，在科克伦艺术学院学习。后来，他去了伦敦，师从弗兰克·布朗温。第一次世界大战期间，他受委托为包括美国航运委员会在内的多个美国政府机构制作宣传海报。

多尔蒂在他的职业生涯中编写并插图了几本儿童读物，他的书丹尼尔·布恩 (Daniel Boone) 获得了纽伯瑞奖章。他与 Benjamin Elkin、Gillespie and the Guards 合着的书于 1957 年获得了 Caldecott 荣誉。他还是 Walt Whitman 的美国选集和 James Daugherty 的绘画的作者。

詹姆斯·多尔蒂 (James Daugherty) 的四幅巨幅壁画，题为“选美精神——非洲”、“戏剧精神——欧洲”、“电影精神——美国”和“幻想精神——亚洲”位于国家剧院这是俄亥俄州克利夫兰市中心美丽的剧场广场剧院区的一部分。

2006 年 9 月，康涅狄格州格林威治的一所小学汉密尔顿大道学校爆发了争议，因为多尔蒂在公共艺术项目委托市政厅的一幅壁画中描绘了邦克山英雄和康涅狄格州本地人以色列普特南，并安装在1935 年，这幅壁画被修复，呈现出充满暴力和色彩丰富的图像的场景，包括咆哮的动物、挥舞着战斧的美洲印第安人和绑在燃烧的木桩上的半裸的普特南将军。学校官员反对暴力图像，并下令将壁画移至格林威治公共图书馆。

About The Artist

James Henry Daugherty was an American modernist painter, muralist, children's book author and illustrator.He lived in Indiana, Ohio, and at the age of 9 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he studied at the Corcoran School of Art. Later, he went to London and studied under Frank Brangwyn. During World War I, he was commissioned to produce propaganda posters for various US Government agencies, including the United States Shipping Board.

Daugherty wrote and illustrated several children's books during his career, and his book Daniel Boone won the Newbery Medal. His book with Benjamin Elkin, Gillespie and the Guards, won the Caldecott Honor in 1957. He was also the author of Walt Whitman's America Selections and Drawings by James Daugherty.

Four huge murals by James Daugherty, entitled "The Spirit of Pageantry — Africa", "The Spirit of Drama — Europe", "The Spirit of Cinema — America", and "The Spirit of Fantasy — Asia" are located in the State Theatre which is part of the beautiful Playhouse Square theater district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

In September 2006, controversy erupted at Hamilton Avenue School, an elementary school in Greenwich, Connecticut, over Daugherty's depiction of the Bunker Hill hero and Connecticut native Israel Putnam in a mural commissioned by Public Works of Art Project for the town hall, and installed in the school in 1935. The mural was restored, and revealed a scene, filled with violent and richly colored imagery, including snarling animals, tomahawk-wielding American Indians and a half-naked General Putnam strapped to a burning stake. School officials objected to the violent imagery and ordered the mural removed to the Greenwich Public Library.

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