Frank Wright (painter)
Frank Wright is an American painter. He attended American University on a scholarship from the National Society of Arts and Letters and received his BA from there in 1954. He then went on to do studies and research at the Berenson Villa I Tatti in Florence, and post graduate work at the Fogg Museum at Harvard University. The study he undertook at Bernard Berenson's Tuscan residence was on the relationship of Florentine painting to the Florentine theatre in the Quattrocento.
As a painter Wright's work has been exhibited widely. His work was the subject of a solo exhibition, "Frank Wright: Paintings, Prints, Drawings" at Adams, Davidson Galleries, Washington, DC, which ran from May 6 until June 7, 1975 and of several solo exhibitions at the Kennedy Gallery also in WDC. He had a solo museum exhibition entitled "Frank Wright: Paintings 1968-1980" at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC, which was on display from June 13 until July 19, 1981. He has been a professor of art for many years at the George Washington University, where his students have included the noted painter, sculptor and draughtsman Robert Liberace who credits Wright with having instilled into him a love of the old masters.
