Artist: Joseph Wright Of Derby (1734 - 1797)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby), The Dead Soldier, 1789
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby), Shakespeare - The Tempest - Act VI, Scene I, 18th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1770 Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, 1734-1791)Oil on canvas;
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Penelope Unraveling Her Web
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby Title: Cottage on Fire Date: 1786 - 1787 Medium: oil
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Joseph Wright of Derby - Dovedale by Moonlight c. 1784-85 oil on canvas Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College English
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Francis Seymour Haden, Thomas Haden, after Wright of Derby - Plate XXV from the Portfolio …tudes ý l"eau-forte (with text by Philippe Burty), 1864
Museum of Fine Arts -
Joseph Wright of Derby, British, 1734-1797 Grotto by the Seaside in the Kingdom of Naples
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Auguste Blanchard, III, The Derby Day, 19th century
Museum of Fine Arts -
Joseph Wright of Derby, British, 1734-1797 Mrs. Francis Boott Oil on canvas 77.2 x 64.1
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Joseph Wright, John Coats Browne, circa 1784
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Derby Factory, Octagonal box with lid, circa 1755
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Henry Alken, The Derby Winner, 1820
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Derby Factory, Spill vase, circa 1820
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Joseph Brown, James Gillray, plate opposite List of Full Page Engravings in the book Caricature History of the Georges by Thomas Wright (London: John Camden Hotten, [ca. 1867] , 1867
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Joseph Wright - Matlock Tor mid-1780's oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Derby Factory, Dish floral decoration, circa 1784
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Chelsea Derby Factory, Boy with ladle of food, circa 1770
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Derby Factory, Tripartite sweetmeat dish, circa 1755
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Edward Smith Stanley (1752-1834), Twelfth Earl of Derby, with His First Wife (Lady Elizabeth Hamilton,
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Sir Anthony Van Dyck - James, Seventh Earl of Derby, His Lady and Child 1632-41 oil on canvas The Frick Collection Flemish
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Francis Seymour Haden, Thomas Haden of Derby ("Edwin"), 1863
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Buckland Wright, Nr. P. 75, 1931
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Joseph Wright - The Corinthian Maid 1782-1784 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Joseph Wright - Mrs. John Ashton c. 1769-1771 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Joseph Wright - Cottage on Fire c. 1786-87 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts British
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Joseph Wright - Portrait of a Gentleman c. 1770-1773 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Buckland Wright, Nu A, 1929
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John Buckland Wright, Nu E, 1931
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Joseph Wright - Italian Landscape 1790 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Joseph Wright - Matlock Tor by Moonlight 1778-80 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art English
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James Thomson, Charlotte de la Tremouille, Countess of Derby, 18th - 19th century
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Albert Henry Payne, Fairfax before the Countess of Derby., 19th - 20th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Alfred Henry Forrester Crowquill, Bob Makes Up His Book for the Derby, 19th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Untitled, 1962
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Hamlet Winstanley, Coverpage (Praenobili Iacobi Comiti Derby...etc.), 17th - 18th century
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John Buckland Wright, La Chevriere, 1932
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Buckland Wright, Two Women Nr. II, 1931
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, 1790 Sir Thomas Lawrence
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Buckland Wright, Two Women Nr. I, 1931

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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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...
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: Telling Time: The relationship between time and the still image.
One area explored in the exhibition in the Sunley Room is how artists have depicted or described movement, from freezing instants of imbalance to the use of the blur. Another technique was employed by one of the most sustained of all the invest...
Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues ...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Deborah Butterfield 's Horses
Born in 1949 in San Diego, California on the day of the 75th running of the Kentucky Derby, Deborah Butterfield credits this event as determining her career as a modernist sculptor of horses. Using found objects that have included a wrecked traile...
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...
Royal Academy of Arts: Arnold Machin: A Retrospective of a Lifes Work
The exhibition encompasses his lifetime work, commencing with his childhood, apprenticeship chi...
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...
Institute of Modern Art: MOFFATT RETURNS TO BRISBANE
As a backdrop to the Third Asia Pacific Triennial, the Institute of Modern Art will present six of Moffatts most significant projects, highlighting her influential role within Australian contemporary photography and...
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...
Tate Liverpool: Liverpool Biennial: International 2002
Artists for Liverpool Biennial / International 2002 are Chiho Aoshima, Olaf Breuning, Elizabeth Dadi & Iftikhar Dadi, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Juan Fernando Herrán, Christine Hill, T...
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...

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