Clifford Wright (1919-1999) was an American and Danish artist. He studied art at the Cornish School in Seattle, and later exhibited his work at the Seattle Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. He was married to Elsa Gress, a prominent Danish author. Later in life, he moved to the Island of Mon, which is south of Copenhagen, with Elsa. - askART, “Clifford Wright (1919-1999) askart.com (accessed July 14, 2020).
Correspondence, posters, and letters.
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Writings include an autobiographical piece, and writings about and fragments by Mark Tobey, a friend of Wright. Letters are from Seattle artist friends. One Tobey writings, "Cymbals," is the original corrected typescript of the carbon in the Tobey papers, (6/33). The Clifford Wright typescript "Mark Tobey - old master, eternal self-renewer" is also in the Tobey papers (10/5).
Posters from Clifford Wright exhibitions. All but one depict Wright's paintings.
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Article by Wright, "Mark Tobey gammel mester, evig selofornyer" in "Billedkunst," No.2, 1968. The letter is to Wright from Pehr.