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Fred R. Kline (born November 3, 1939, Hagerstown, MD) is an art historian, writer, poet, sculptor, private art dealer and public gallerist since 1980 in Santa Fe, NM, and additionally in San Antonio, TX during the 1980s. He is known for his discoveries of lost art, including paintings, drawings and sculpture by Old Masters as well as 19th and 20th-century American and European artists. Many of his discoveries have been acquired by prominent museum, corporate and private collections around the world. Kline's youth was spent in the U.S. east coast and in San Antonio during the 1940s-1950s. He served in the United States Marine Corps 1960-62 and was stationed in Japan and Southeast Asia. He holds a B.A. in English and a M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University (1968), studying with James Schevill, Kay Boyle, Wright Morris, Rod Serling, Eric Hoffer, James Liddy, among others. He has held teaching positions at Columbus College of Art & Design English Department (1968–72) and Cornell University English Department where he was also Associate Director of University Relations working with President Frank Rhodes(1979–80). Kline moved to Santa Fe, NM with his family in 1980 to begin his career as a private art dealer; within a year, he had discovered a painting by George Inness, the 19th c. American landscape painter, the sale of which purchased his first house there. Initially including American Indian Art among his collecting and dealing interests, he preferred to repatriate sacred objects back to the tribes; several objects returned to the Onondaga and Seminole were notably recognized in "Wisdomkeepers" (Steve Wall and Harvey Arden, Beyond Words Publishing. 1990, pp.76-85, various other pages) and in "Travels in a Stone Canoe"( Harvey Arden and Steve Wall, Simon & Schuster, 1998, Chapter 14, pp.201-211, various other pages). Kline calls himself an ``art explorer,’’ one who brings an informed eye and open mind to a sleuth-like adventure of acquiring vanished masterpieces and restoring their identities (New York Times, 4.2.2002:"An Art Explorer Finds the Real Creators of Works"). He has unearthed notable works by important artists in auctions, estate sales, antique and art galleries, and in the most unlikely resale shops and flea markets. He stresses evidence-supported connoisseurship, intuition and imagination, and a qualitative eye in analyzing art that rests final identification of an artist's work on signature comparative details. He cites as influential mentors: art historian connoisseurs Bernard Berenson (who was also in partnership with noted fine art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen) and Sir Kenneth Clark; philosopher and scientist Albert Einstein; mythologist and teacher Joseph Campbell; art critic Robert Hughes; and fine art dealer, connoisseur and philanthropist Eugene Victor Thaw. In the past 35 years, his discoveries of lost art have been featured twice in the (New York Times );〔("An Art Explorer Finds the Real Creator of Works", 2002〕 and "A Poem by Wild Bill Hickok," 1986 ); Art & Antiques ("You Never Know: An Ongoing Search for Lost Art in America," Feb.1989); and in the art history textbook Framing America: A Social History of American Art by Frances Pohl,〔(3rd ed. 2012),〕 which highlighted and illustrated his discovery of the ca. 1530 Aztec-Spanish (Indochristian) sculpture "La Virgencita del Nuevo Mundo" as among the first New World works of art. Among notable collections that hold Kline’s discoveries are: Thaw Collection of Master Drawings at The Morgan Library; J. Paul Getty Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Jenness Collection of Master Drawings at Clark Art Institute; Leeds Museum, England; and Frances Lehman Loeb Art Museum at Vassar College. Kline's discoveries include: • 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「Fred R. Kline」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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