Artist: William Wright ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby), The Dead Soldier, 1789
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Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby), Shakespeare - The Tempest - Act VI, Scene I, 18th century
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Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1770 Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, 1734-1791)Oil on canvas;
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John Buckland Wright, Nr. P. 75, 1931
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John Buckland Wright, Nu A, 1929
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John Buckland Wright, Nu E, 1931
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Thomas Cook, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, plate opposite page 306 in the book Caricature History of the Georges by Thomas Wright (London: John Camden Hotten, [ca. 1867] , 1867
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Untitled, 1962
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John Buckland Wright, La Chevriere, 1932
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John Buckland Wright, Two Women Nr. II, 1931
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John Buckland Wright, Apocalypse Nr. I, 1931
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John Buckland Wright, Bouillon, 1927
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John Buckland Wright, Five Bathers, 1931
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John Buckland Wright, St. Gingolph, 1927
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John Buckland Wright, Apocalypse Nr. III.4, 1931
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John Buckland Wright, Vishnu, 1928
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John Buckland Wright, Bord du Lac, 1931
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John Buckland Wright, Dancers, 1929
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John Buckland Wright, Susanna, 1929
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John Buckland Wright, Apocalypse Nr. II, 1931
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John Buckland Wright, Bather, 1930
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John Buckland Wright, Apocalypse Nr. IV, 1931
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John Buckland Wright, Dance, 1927
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John Buckland Wright, Apocalypse Nr. V., 1932
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John Buckland Wright, Figurante, 1932
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John Buckland Wright, The Waterfall, 1933
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John Buckland Wright, Nu silhouette Nr. II, 1933
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John Buckland Wright, …tude, 1933
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John Buckland Wright, Two Women Nr. I, 1931
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John Buckland Wright, Nu Silhouette Nr. 1, 1933
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John Buckland Wright, Three Women, 1933
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John Buckland Wright, Baigneuse, 1932
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John Buckland Wright, Conversation, 1932
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John Buckland Wright, Nu assis, 1933
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John Buckland Wright, Interieure Nr. 1., 1932
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John Buckland Wright, Bather, 1932
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John Buckland Wright, Summer, 1930
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John Buckland Wright, Susanna, 1930
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John Buckland Wright, Nude, 1933
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Margaret Hardon Wright, , 19th - 20th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts: John Howe in Minnesota: The Prairie School Legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright
Howe moved to Minnesota in the mid-1960s, where he ran his own architectural practice that focused, like Wright’s, on domestic architecture. This exhibition will comprise 75 to 100 drawi...
Guggenheim Museum: 40th Anniversary of the Landmark Frank Lloyd Wright Building
When the Guggenheim Museum was completed forty ears ago, it represented a milestone in world architecture, said Thomas Krens, Director of the Soloman R. Guggenheim Foundation. It remains on of the great buildings of the twentieth century. We are t...
Oakville Galleries: Andrew Wright: Home and Garden
Over the summer months, Wright began his research for Home and Garden on the grounds of Gairloch, looking every bit the part of a nineteenth century artist. With a straw hat for cover, a solid drawing table for support, paper, a pencil and a camer...
Dayton Art Institute: Orville and Wilbur: The Wright Brothers' Legacy
This exhibition portrays the beginning of powered flight with photographs and original lithographs from the first two decades of powered flight, said Alex Nyerges, Director and CEO of The Dayton Art Institute. According to Nyerges, the imag...
Turkaly Art Gallery: Robert Wright: Looking Back
This series of artworks is a detour from his well-known abstract work involving figurative expressionism. Being deaf since early childhood, Wright’s work has always focused on movement and action, with gestures often resembling Japanese calligraph...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Color, Myth, and Music:Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism
Among his many accomplishments, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, along with fellow American painter Morgan Russell, fathered the Synchromism movement. Convinced that color and sound were equivalent phenomena and that one could o...
Price Tower Art Center: Robert Indiana 66: Paintings and Sculpture
Frank Lloyd Wright ’s Price Tower was his pioneering experiment in the multi-use skyscraper: a slim, tall, richly detailed structure, originally designed to combine business offices, shops and apartments. The non-profit Price Tower Arts Center ret...
St. John's Museum of Art: Virginia Wright-Frierson: 2000, A Year in Paintings
Another undertaking being explored includes Wright-Frierson’s design and ...
National Gallery: Light
The first section, Symbolic Light, contains works in which light takes on a metaphorical meaning, such as the Gallery’s 'Adoration of the Shepherds' by Rembrandt and the rarely seen 'After the Deluge; the Forty-First Day' by G. F. Watts (Guildfor...
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane: Three Brisbane Artists: Judith Wright, Daniel Templeman, Paul Bai
There is a quiet grace in the works of Judith Wright, which are not only sublimely beautiful but also often thought provoking and deeply moving. Blind of Sight, deals with the maternity and the images reflect this in the singular beauty of a mothe...
New Mexico Photography Field School: 2001 Workshop Offerings Announced
2001 Schedule includes: THE POSSIBILITIES OF CAMERA FORMAT: Making Photographs with the Large, Medium and Panoramic Camera, June 4 through 10, with Craig Varjabedian and Steve Goff. UNDER A MOST BRILLIANT NEW MEXICO SKY, June 18 thro...
Mobius: Domestic Archaeology: Site/Insite an Installation by Edythe F. Wright
In my project, Domestic Archaeology: Site/Insite, I work as a spy, surgeon, archaeologist, painter, display technician, graphic designer, writer and sculptor. Part of an ongoing project of urban archaeology, the exhibition at ...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: Distinctly American: The Photographs of Wright Morris
Morris occupies a singular position in the history of American arts and letters. Recognized as one of America?s most gifted authors, he is also respected for his photography and his pioneering work combining images and text. Morris wrote 33 award-...
Institute of Modern Art: Another Landscape
Travelling with the exhibition to India, Wright's projections inhale the experience of her contact with different physical and cultural landscapes bringing them back to the body and summoning up the extraordinary effect such experiences have on o...
24 HR Art - Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art: Swamp Dynamics: an installation  by Bronwyn Wright
This is not just a recording of a particular landscape but rather an emersion into an ecosystem and its inhabitants.  The exhibition presents a images of an unusual confluence of the artist, the environment, and the subculture of car hoons, who us...
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum: Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright
"Frank Lloyd Wright is such a giant figure in the story of 20th-century American culture, architecture and design," said Elizabeth Broun, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "The museum is delighted to pr...
Monash University Gallery: Another Landscape: work of three women artists from Australia, Japan and India
The exhibition sets out to achieve a deeper mutual understanding of different cultural outlooks through the work of thre...
David Scott Gallery: Pregnant Women Series
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Milestones of Modernism 1880-1940: Selections from the Norwest Collection

More than 200 objects are included in the exhibition—furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass and works on paper. Created between 1880 and 1940, they represent a survey of the major movements of the period: A...
artoose: Spring Open Weekend: Work by 14, Young, Contemporary Artists
We are also showing a collection of 80 cards made by contemporary surrealist Dan Bendel, recent 'chaos' paintings by Rufus Knightwebb, 'encapsulated' resin sculptures by Mark Russell, radical painting by post-pop artist Gary Colclough, dystopian c...
Cafe Gallery Project: Destiny Manifest Eden's End: Cathy Ward and Eric Wright
Manifest destiny was a term first expressed by John L. O'Sullivan and used to describe the belief of the 1840's in the inevitable territorial expansion of the United States: .... and that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to over spr...
Indianapolis Art Center: WILLIS BING DAVIS: Ceremony and Ritual
Also on view will be the results of a year-long project joining artists from Dayton/Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Nearly twenty artists have visited each other's studios, taken trips and pursued hands-on workshops together. The exhibiti...
Dallas Museum of Art: Circa 1900: Design at the Turn of the Century
Included in the exhibition will be furniture by the American arts and crafts master Gustav Stickley, as well as the French art nouveau designer Louis Majorelle. Frank Lloyd Wright designs, Louis Comfort tiffany glass, George Jensen silver, and...
Stephen Cohen Gallery: Edmund Teske: Images Out of Time
A pioneering visual artist, Teske was born in Chicago in 1911, where his childhood interest in photography grew into a 60-year pursuit of artistic freedom. His early training at Taliesin with Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s offered Teske import...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: American Modern, 1925-1940: Design for a New Age
On display are approximately 150 objects—furniture, clocks, appliances, lamps, textiles, posters, and more from the Museum's collection and the John C. Waddell Collection, a major promise...
d.u.m.b.o. arts center: The Human Body
Suzanne Wright, Hedi Sorger and Sharon Malloy make closely observed and intimate portraits of both interior and exterior aspects of the body, while Gerard Gaskin, Daniel Zeller and Pedro Elias Cruz Castro ponder the cultural connotations of ana...
Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Focus on the Figure: Southern California Artists (1850-1950)
Almost all the figurative artists who gathered in the artistic communities of southern California during that time had studied in Eastern and European academies which stressed the primacy of the figure. Arriving in California, they faced two chal...
J. Paul Getty Center: Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske
Drawn chiefly from the Museum’s collection, Spirit into Matter includes a large body of prints recently acquired from Teske’s heirs. Many of the roughly 128 works on view have never been published or exhibited, including several exquisitely crafte...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and the Geffen Contemporary: The Architecture of R. M. Schindler
The exhibition will include approximately 110 original drawings by Schindler, approximately 15 models of the most significant architectural works, a selection ...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Last Week! Milestones of Modernism 1880-1940: Selections from the Norwest Collection
More than 200 objects are included in the exhibition—furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass and works on paper. Created between 1880 and 1940, they represent a survey of the major movements of the period: Arts...

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William Wright & Associates
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William Wright
Wright brothers: Wilbur and Orville Wright
ASMP Seattle Online Portfolios
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William Wright, 1707-1776, of Augusta Co
William Wright (1734 - 1797) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Books by William Wright at PriceGrabber
DBLP: William E. Wright

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