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Alice Morgan Wright (American, 1881–1975)
Nude, n.d.

Color monotype, 5 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.
Collection of The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. Gift of
the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2001.9.285

Alice Morgan Wright was convicted for disturbing the peace,
along with the leader of the British suffragette movement
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928), and imprisoned for two
months in London’s Holloway Prison. Born an only child in
Albany, New York, Wright graduated from Smith College in
1904. She studied in New York at the Art Students League and
in Paris from 1909 to 1914 at the École des Beaux Art and the
Académie Colarossi. Her life was divided between art making
and activism. Aside from her roles in various organizations—
she was a founding member of the New York State League
of Women Voters in 1921 and later helped form the National
Humane Society—Wright was one of the earliest American
sculptors to incorporate elements of Cubism and Futurism into
her works. This may be the only extant monotype by Wright.
NOTES:
Groft and MacKay, Albany Institute of History & Art, 160.

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