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Armstrong Wells Sperry (November 7, 1897 – April 26, 1976) was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. His books include historical fiction and biography, often set on sailing ships, and stories of boys from Polynesia, Asia and indigenous American cultures. He is best known for his 1941 Newbery Medal-winning book ''Call It Courage''. ==Early training as an artist== Born the third and youngest son of a businessman in New Haven, Sperry attended Stamford Preparatory School from 1908 to 1915. His older brother, Paul, invented the sole of the Sperry Top-Sider. He attended the Art Students League of New York from 1915 to 1918, where he studied with F. Luis Mora and George Bellows. He then studied at the Yale School of Art in the fall of 1918 until drafted into the United States Navy at the very end of World War I. Inspired by reading the work of Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London as a boy, and then Frederick O'Brien's (''White Shadows in the South Seas'' ) in 1919, he traveled around the South Pacific from October 1920 to May 1921, spending time on Tahiti, Raiatea, Bora Bora, New Zealand, Australia, the Fiji Islands, and Hawaii. In December 1921, one of his paintings of the South Seas were exhibited at the Art Centre, NYC.〔"Art: The December Exhibitions", December 18, 1921, ''The New York Times''.〕 In the summer of 1922, Sperry was introduced to Kenneth Emory, an ethnologist at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, by his foster sister, Anne Kinnear.〔Krauss, Bob. ''Keneti: South Seas Adventures of Kenneth Emory.'' University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1988〕 He spent the spring of 1923 studying at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, and continued to enroll at the Art Students League during the 1920s and early 1930s. From September 1924 to May 1925, he was employed as an assistant to Emory on board the Kaimiloa, a yacht owned by Medford Kellum, sailing from Hawaii to Fanning Island, Christmas Island, Malden Island, Penrhyn Island, Tahiti, Bora Bora, Raiatea on scientific research, although continuing to paint, exhibiting his work in Honolulu.〔"Armstrong Sperry Has Prisoned the Elusive Atmosphere of the South Seas in Water Colors," by L. T. G. ''The Honolulu Advertiser'', Sunday Morning, July 12, 1925.〕 before sailing to San Francisco in June 1925〔Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at San Francisco, 1893–1953.〕 Returning to New York, he married Margaret Robertson, a medical doctor and daughter of San Francisco bookseller and publisher A. M. Robertson, in 1930. He worked in an advertising agency, "drawing vacuum cleaners, milk bottles, Campbell's Soup, etc.,"〔"Armstrong Sperry, 1940 Newbery Winner," by Doris S. Patee, Editor, Juvenile Books, Macmillan Company, New York, N.Y. ''The Library Journal'', July 1941, Vol. 66, pp. 589–90.〕 as an illustrator of pulp romances and magazines, writing south sea yarns for magazines, and finally, illustrating books and dust jackets, including the first edition of ''Tarzan and the Lost Empire'' by Edgar Rice Burroughs〔Robert R. Barrett, "To Bora-Bora and Back Again:The Story of Armstrong W. Sperry." ''Burroughs Bulletin'', Number 11 (New Series), July 1992, pp. 3–8.〕 in 1929 and the first of several books he would illustrate by Helen Follet, ''Magic Portholes'' in 1932. 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「Armstrong Sperry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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