A brief history

In the last two years we have slowly moved from our adobe home in Redstone Canyon of Colorado. While it was not easy it seemed the thing to do, maybe as a way of making things easier, like not having to fight the wilds, the rattlesnakes, the cattle looking in through the windows at six in the morning. Not that we did not like the Mountain Lions feeding on our chickens but it was all just work, maybe too much work maintaining all the everyday things. We are now here comfortable in a 100 year old Victorian home in downdown Amherst Wisconsin. The small photo to the left typlifies what we are doing. I know she is slamming a beer in a parking lot in New Brunswick after a sucessful 10 mile hike along the Bay of Fundy, but that is just a metaphore for enjoying life, drinking from the bottle shall we say. We are content here and getting back to the world of art. 

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Wright Fine Art        Ann's Gallery of Paintings

 

Ann Herzog Wright

Ann has been professionally painting twenty five years and involved in the art world since the opening of the Black Forest Pottery in Elizabeth Colorado in 1970. She has been very much influenced by the work of Sorrilla, Monet, Homer, Sargent (all very deceased) and George Carlson one of America's premiere artist of today. She has shown her work in most of the major shows around the country (partial list below) and has been handled by some of the best private galleries. Her choice of subject matter  follows her travels and living setting. We lived on a range in the foothills of Colorado for the last thirteen years  thus the paintings were filled with cattle, mountain settings and the folks that lived in the area. Now in Wisconsin the settings are from our backyard, the ponds, the rivers and a new set of models all from here or our travels. This year we did hit the maritimes, Montana, Colorado and Virginia. At the moment, December, she is experimenting with a open, loser style. She is growing and I like it, prejudiced as I may be. 

 
David K Wright

Like Ann, I have been working hard at craft and art from those early days back in the Pleistocene. In the past ten years or so I have moved away from my earlier animal forms and concentrated on the human subject. I am drawn to simple expressions of appreciation. It is not that I am simple it is just that many of those things in life that are important to me are not complex. They may be aesthetic moments of a quiet joy of nothing more than being thankful for a nice bunch of beets that I have just spent the summer growing. That theme wanders all over, I hope, in my work . I enjoy being outside, on rivers, lakes, walking on snow shoes that in themselves have a rather aesthetic, and maybe historical , interest. Life in my world is good. I want to express a simple goodness and reverence. 

My work is presently being displayed at the following Galleries:

Grace Chosey Gallery in Madison Wis.

Edgewood Orchard Gallery in Fish Creek Wis. 920-868-3579

44 North Gallery in Waupaca Wis. 715-498-4486

Mary Williams Fine Art, Boulder Colo.

Rep. Cheryl Dewing of Appleton 920-989-2891

  

  

Our home studio 715-824-3007, dkwright@wi-net.com

  

  

 

  

  

  

Pictured is Ann Herzog Wright with fellow artists Rick Forris and Dan Dailing. They have just won awards of mert at the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum in Neenah Wisconsin. The artist were chosen from a 7 county region. These three are all professional artists who sell the work on a national scale. 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

by Ann Herzog Wright:

“Allied Artists of America,” New York

Art Du Monde, Japan

“Society Of American Impressionists,” Scottsdale, St. Louis

Springville Museum Of Art, Utah

Pioneers’ Museum Show “Artists Of The West,” Colorado Springs

Scottsdale Invitational, Arizona

California Classic, West Lake, CA

Jackson Hole Alliance Auction, WY

Pastel Society Of America, New York, NY

Pastel Society of Canada

Loveland Museum Calendar Exhibition, twelve artists

Arts For The Parks, Jackson, WY

Artists Of America, Denver, CO 1991-1993

Colorado Governor’s Invitational Art Show & Sale,

The Great American Artists Exhibition, Cincinnati Museum Center ‘96-’99

C.M. Russell Museum Benefit, Great Falls, Montana

Miniatures Albuquerque Museum Foundation

American Art in Miniature, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Settlers West American Miniatures Show, Tucson, Arizona

Oil Painters Of America Show

Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition Golden, CO

Colorado Art Open, Golden, CO

Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale, Denver

Spirit of the Great Plains Art Sale & Exhibition-Museum Of Nebraska Art, Kearney

Kimball Art Center Auction, ‘05-07, Park City, Utah

Colorado Mountain Club Exhibit and Sale, ‘05, Denver,CO.

Virginia Museum of Animal Art

Barns & Farms, Kewaunee, WI ‘07

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah Wi. ‘08

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Art Talk

Southwest Art Magazine, Dec. 1985

Colorado Homes and Lifestyles, April 2000

Wildlife Art Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2003