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1919 Cosmopolis, Washington - 1999. Known for: Abstraction-surreal, illustrator, figure.
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... Read full 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... Read full 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:... Read full 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
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
Clifford Wright - Artist Info
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Keywords (14)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty