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Frank Wright |
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The Artist in his Studio |
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FRANK WRIGHT (American, 1932) oil on canvas, 28 x 36, signed and dated (1975) lower right.
Ex collection: Philip Desind
Exhibited: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Frank Wright was born in 1932 in Washington D.C. He attended local schools, graduating from Eastern High School in 1950 and American University. He continued his art studies in Florence, Paris and Cambridge, MA before opening a studio in Washington in 1964. He has taught at George Washington University since 1970. Wright has had solo exhibitions in the Washington area, including at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and in New York at the Kennedy Galleries. His works can be found in major museums, The Superior Court Art Trust, Washington DC; University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington; and the U.S. House of Representatives, Speakers Gallery, U.S. Capitol, Washington DC. This painting looks out from the artist’s former studio (in a building now occupied by the International Spy Museum) toward the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
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1974 |
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29 x 36 |
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signed lower right |
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oil on canvas |
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$9,500 |
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