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1881 Albany, New York - 1975 Albany, New York. Known for: Cubist figure sculpture.
Alice Morgan Wright grew up in Albany, New York and became one of the first American sculptors to use cubist forms, as in "Medea" (1920). She studied sculpture at the Art Students League from 1905 to... Read full biography
Alice Morgan Wright grew up in Albany, New York and became one of the first American sculptors to use cubist forms, as in "Medea" (1920). She studied sculpture at the Art Students League from 1905 to 1910 with Herman MacNeil, Gutzon Borglum, and James Earle Fraser. While in Paris at the Academie... Read full biography
Alice Morgan Wright grew up in Albany, New York and became one of the first American sculptors to use cubist forms, as in "Medea" (1920). She studied sculpture at the Art Students League from 1905 to 1910 with Herman MacNeil, Gutzon Borglum, and James Earle Fraser. While in Paris at the Academie Colarossi, 1910 1912, she was impressed by the Cubist movement and began to integrate its fractured planes and geometric forms with expressive themes. Her statue of Lady Macbeth is at the Folger... Read full biography
Alice Morgan Wright grew up in Albany, New York and became one of the first American sculptors to use cubist forms, as in "Medea" (1920). She studied sculpture at the Art Students League from 1905 to 1910 with Herman MacNeil, Gutzon Borglum, and James Earle Fraser. While in Paris at the Academie Colarossi, 1910 1912, she was impressed by the Cubist movement and began to integrate its fractured planes and geometric forms with expressive themes. Her statue of Lady Macbeth is at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D. C. Credit. "American Women Artists", by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein). ----------------------------------------------------------------------. Alice Morgan Wright, born in Albany, New York in 1881, became a successful... Read full biography
Alice Morgan Wright grew up in Albany, New York and became one of the first American sculptors to use cubist forms, as in "Medea" (1920). She studied sculpture at the Art Students League from 1905 to 1910 with Herman MacNeil, Gutzon Borglum, and James Earle Fraser. While in Paris at the Academie Colarossi, 1910 1912, she was impressed by the Cubist movement and began to integrate its fractured planes and geometric forms with expressive themes. Her statue of Lady Macbeth is at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D. C. Credit. "American Women Artists", by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein). ----------------------------------------------------------------------. Alice Morgan Wright, born in Albany, New York in 1881, became a successful modernist sculptor who, by 1930 had stopped working in her art to become an internationally famous advocate for the humane treatment... Read full biography