Clifford Wright - Artist Info

About Clifford Wright

  • Biography

    Described in one exhibition as the "painter of the grotesque", Clifford Wright studied in Seattle at the Cornish School and with Mark Tobey from 1937 to 1943. He exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.

    Wright lived in New York where he married Elsa Gress, a leading feminist writer of Denmark, and went there to live with her and their children on the Island of Mon south of Copenhagen. He did designs for the Royal Danish Opera and has also illustrated books.

    Source: Charlton Hall Galleries

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