An accomplished landscape, portrait, figure and mural artist, Alma Wright was respected both as an artist and a dignified, attractive man with high personal standards, the result of Mormon upbringing... Read full biography
An accomplished landscape, portrait, figure and mural artist, Alma Wright was respected both as an artist and a dignified, attractive man with high personal standards, the result of Mormon upbringing and art studies in Europe. He devoted most of his career to teaching art in Utah. He was born and... Read full biography
An accomplished landscape, portrait, figure and mural artist, Alma Wright was respected both as an artist and a dignified, attractive man with high personal standards, the result of Mormon upbringing and art studies in Europe. He devoted most of his career to teaching art in Utah. He was born and raised in Salt Lake City in a neighborhood with Mahonri Young and Lee Greene Richards, future well-known artists influenced by George Ottinger, from whom they took lessons at his neighborhood studio in... Read full biography
An accomplished landscape, portrait, figure and mural artist, Alma Wright was respected both as an artist and a dignified, attractive man with high personal standards, the result of Mormon upbringing and art studies in Europe. He devoted most of his career to teaching art in Utah. He was born and raised in Salt Lake City in a neighborhood with Mahonri Young and Lee Greene Richards, future well-known artists influenced by George Ottinger, from whom they took lessons at his neighborhood studio in the 1880s and 1890s. They later referred to themselves as the "20th Ward Group.". Wright studied at Ladder Day Saints College from 1892 to 1895 and then at the University of Utah from 1895 to 1896, the student of Herman Haag and James Harwood. He... Read full biography
An accomplished landscape, portrait, figure and mural artist, Alma Wright was respected both as an artist and a dignified, attractive man with high personal standards, the result of Mormon upbringing and art studies in Europe. He devoted most of his career to teaching art in Utah. He was born and raised in Salt Lake City in a neighborhood with Mahonri Young and Lee Greene Richards, future well-known artists influenced by George Ottinger, from whom they took lessons at his neighborhood studio in the 1880s and 1890s. They later referred to themselves as the "20th Ward Group.". Wright studied at Ladder Day Saints College from 1892 to 1895 and then at the University of Utah from 1895 to 1896, the student of Herman Haag and James Harwood. He worked as an instructor of art at Brigham Young College in Logan and then left for Europe. From 1902 to 1904... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (16)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
150 Year Survey: Utah Art and Artists
2001
Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, Donna L. Poulton, and Janie L. Rogers
160 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Utah Art
1991
Swanson, Vern; Robert Olpin, William Seifrit
252 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art
1972
Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington
75 pages (color)
100 Years of Utah Painting Selected Works from the1840s to the 1940s (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Haseltine, James L
62 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art (Exhibition catalog)