Will Ashton

**Sir John William Ashton**, OBE, ROI (20 Satumba 1881 - 1 Satumba 1963) ya kasance mai zane-zane na Australiya kuma darektan Art Gallery na New South Wales daga 1937 zuwa 1943.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Ashton a Clifton, York, Ingila, ɗan ɗan mai zane James Ashton, da matarsa Mary Elizabeth Ashton. Mahaifinsa ya yi hijira zuwa Ostiraliya, ya isa Adelaide, Kudancin Ostiraliya a watan Janairun 1884 kuma ya kafa makarantar zane a cikin "marasa girman kai amma mai amfani" a kan Parade, Norwood a 1885.  Matarsa da ɗansa sun isa daga baya, amma galibi an ba da su kamar yadda a 1884.

Ashton ya halarci Kwalejin Prince Alfred, inda mahaifinsa ya kasance malamin fasaha, daga 1889 zuwa 1897.  Ba a fannin ilimi ko kuma a fannin wasanni ba. Bayan barin makaranta, ya sami ƙarin horo daga mahaifinsa;  Hans Heysen ɗan ɗalibi ne.

Ya tafi Landan a shekara ta 1900, inda ya yi karatu a ɗakin karatu na Olsson-Talmage, sannan a 1902 a Académie Julian a Paris na shekara guda. Ashton yana da zane-zane da yawa da Royal Academy of Arts, London, da Salon de la Société des Artistes Français suka karɓa, a wannan lokacin ya ɗauki sunan "Will Ashton" don kauce wa rikicewa da mahaifinsa ko Julian Ashton (babu dangantaka). A shekara ta 1905 ya koma Adelaide, inda aka yaba da "Boulevard Montparnasse, Paris" a matsayin babban abu,  kuma Art Gallery of South Australia ta sayi shi. Bayan gudanar da nune-nunen a Sydney, Melbourne, Perth da Adelaide, a cikin 1908, ya lashe Kyautar Wynne don shimfidar wurare.

A cikin shekarun 1912-1914 ya zana a Burtaniya, Turai, da Masar. Ya koma Ostiraliya na shekara guda, amma ya dawo Landan tare da iyalinsa 1915-1917. Ya yi wasu tafiye-tafiye tare da Lionel Lindsay ko Charles Bryant  kuma zane-zanen mai na Impressionist da ya yi a kowane ɗayan waɗannan tafiye-tallace sun sayar da kyau a lokacin da ya dawo Ostiraliya. Musamman, Ashton yana son zane a Faransa. Abokinsa, Hans Heysen, ya rubuta cewa Seine ya fara 'kama zuciyarsa' a lokacin da yake dalibi, da kuma 'farfado da ruwan da ke gudana da sauri, gadoji, jiragensa da waɗancan layuka masu ban mamaki na gine-gine da bishiyoyi da suka yi ado da bangarorin biyu ba su daina riƙe shi ba kuma su sake jawo shi zuwa Paris." An riƙe shi a matsayin mai ba da shawara ga National Gallery of South Australia da masu tarawa masu zaman kansu, kuma a matsayin mai jarrabawa ga Royal Drawing Society. Ya lashe kyautar Godfrey Rivers Bequest a 1933 da 1938. Ashton ya kuma lashe kyautar Wynne a karo na biyu da na uku a 1930 da 1939.

## Rayuwa ta baya
A shekara ta 1937 an nada Ashton a matsayin darektan Art Gallery na New South Wales, kuma ya shirya baje kolin NSW sesquicentenary na fasahar Australiya, wanda aka buɗe a watan Fabrairun 1938. An soki tashar saboda rashin isasshen haske, [undefined] wanda ya iya magance shi, amma bukatun tattalin arzikin lokacin yaƙi sun hana shi daga kariyar da ake buƙata, kuma ya yi murabus a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1943, [undefined] amma ya rataye shi a matsayin mukaddashin darektan na wasu watanni shida.[2] An karɓi aikace-aikacen maye gurbin daga Rah Fizelle, Frank Medworth da Louis McCubbin.[1] Babu wanda aka zaba; John Henry Young, darektan Macquarie Galleries an dauke shi a matsayin na wucin gadi har sai an nada Hal Missingham.

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