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b. 1920 - d. 2005

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    • MILTON WRIGHT (Massachusetts, 1920-2005), Provincetown dock scene., Oil on canvas, 26" x 20". Framed 29" x 23".
      Jul. 26, 2024

      MILTON WRIGHT (Massachusetts, 1920-2005), Provincetown dock scene., Oil on canvas, 26" x 20". Framed 29" x 23".

      Est: $800 - $1,200

      MILTON WRIGHT Massachusetts, 1920-2005 Provincetown dock scene. Signed lower right "Milton Wright".

      Eldred's
    • Milton Wright (1920-2005) Provincetown, Oil on panel, 24 x 30"
      Nov. 25, 2023

      Milton Wright (1920-2005) Provincetown, Oil on panel, 24 x 30"

      Est: $700 - $900

      Milton Wright (1920-2005) Provincetown, Oil on panel, 24 x 30"

      Bakker Auctions
    • MILTON WRIGHT (Massachusetts, 1920-2005), “Snow’s Landing” (Truro, Massachusetts)., Oil on canvas, 22” x 28”. Framed 27” x 33”.
      Aug. 30, 2023

      MILTON WRIGHT (Massachusetts, 1920-2005), “Snow’s Landing” (Truro, Massachusetts)., Oil on canvas, 22” x 28”. Framed 27” x 33”.

      Est: $200 - $250

      MILTON WRIGHT Massachusetts, 1920-2005 "Snow's Landing" (Truro, Massachusetts). Signed "Milton Wright" on stretcher.

      Eldred's
    • Milton Wright 1920-2005 American Dock Oil Painting
      Aug. 26, 2020

      Milton Wright 1920-2005 American Dock Oil Painting

      Est: $200 - $500

      Original oil on canvas painting by Milton Wright (1920 - 2005) Massachusetts Ohio. Depicts an Industrial fishing harbor scene. Signed lower right. Measures 20 in. x 24 in. (sight), 27 in. x 31 in. (framed). Good condition with mild wear to the frame. Hill Auction Gallery will not ship. Gallery will refer a local shipper for international buyers. Please contact sfloridadelivery@gmail.com for local home delivery quote. Purchaser pick up available upon request.

      Hill Auction Gallery
    • MILTON WRIGHT, Cape Cod, 1920-2005, "Pamet with Church and Town Hall"., Oil on board, 29.5" x 21.5". Framed: 31.5" x 23.5".
      Aug. 15, 2020

      MILTON WRIGHT, Cape Cod, 1920-2005, "Pamet with Church and Town Hall"., Oil on board, 29.5" x 21.5". Framed: 31.5" x 23.5".

      Est: $1,100 - $1,600

      Truro artist Milton Wright painted mostly landscapes from the 1940s until his death in 2005. Wright used lots of color in his work, including green and purple and white in his grasses and red and white in his water. He described himself as a colorist, and his paintings, vibrant and full of color, certainly reflect this description. A retrospective show at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis in 2012 presented these colorful works chronologically, showing his change in style from an artist heavily influenced by Matisse and Cezanne and the cubists to a more impressionistic style. Wright took his first art class when he was seven years old at the Dayton Art Institute and, with family support, pursued a life of painting. In 1942 he graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and after WW II went to Paris on the GI bill where he studied for two years at the Academie Julian, a respected and cutting-edge school for the arts. Only 50 years before Wright arrived, Matisse had studied there. This is where Wright developed his strong interest in atmosphere, light and shadow. Later, when he lived and taught in New York City, and lived in Truro, Wright continued to capture the landscapes around him. He mainly worked in oils, but also did watercolors, gouache and pen-and-ink drawings. Wright also happened to be the grand-nephew of the famous Orville and Wilbur Wright brothers and corresponded with his great uncle Orville regularly. He used to go into the local schools and talk about these interactions, bringing in letters and even pieces of a plane they had flown in, little bits of canvas and wood. These letters are now part of the Smithsonian collection. Truro gallery owner Susan Kurtzman, who represents Wright’s estate knew Wright. When she was the director of Truro’s Highland House Museum in 2000, Wright was on the board and his wife was a volunteer. Kurtzman describes Wright as a “great big tall man, imposing, with big, bushy gray eyebrows” and says when he spoke, which wasn’t that often, everyone listened. Also, in a running joke, no meeting was adjourned until Wright said it was. One member would say “Milt?” and he would say, “Meeting adjourned.” When he died and his widow Breene contacted Kurtzman to manage the estate, Kurtzman says, she walked into his studio and it was like Wright had just left it. There was an unfinished painting on the easel, and dozens and dozens of paintings stacked up against the walls and in the rafters. It took her three months to inventory the lot, and she found stories behind the paintings, read announcements about gallery openings and biographical sketches and reviewed many notebooks of records of his life. Kurtzman notes that while Wright continued to paint landscapes that included man-made creations, they stopped including the figures themselves by the late 1960s. He also stopped doing portraits, many of which were of his wife Breene. Kurtzman notes that in addition to Wright’s “very definitive and vibrant” use of color, many of the paintings have a “quirky” point of view, not posed, as if Wright had “come upon something suddenly — not a beautiful landscape but an interesting landscape.” Wright’s personality, Kurtzman adds, comes through in all of his work.

      Cape Cod Museum of Art
    • Milton Wright, (American, 1920-2005), Beach Scene, 1947, oil on canvas, 30" x 36"
      Jun. 04, 2016

      Milton Wright, (American, 1920-2005), Beach Scene, 1947, oil on canvas, 30" x 36"

      Est: $600 - $800

      Milton Wright (American, 1920-2005) Beach Scene, 1947 oil on canvas signed lower right 30" x 36"

      Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
    • Milton Wright; Pen & Ink on Paper
      Feb. 11, 2016

      Milton Wright; Pen & Ink on Paper

      Est: $100 - $150

      Milton Wright, 1920-2005. American. Pen and ink on paper, shorescape; dated '68.(45E858309) Low Estimate: 100 High Estimate: 150 Measurements: Image; 17"x23" Frame; 24"x30" Condition: Good condition. From a Private Collection, 45 East 85th St., NYC.

      Litchfield Auctions
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