Paris and France
Paris, France was Frank Wright’s second city. In the early 1960s, he and his wife Mary spent several years in Paris while Wright studied printmaking under William Stanley Hayter at his Atelier 17. Living near one of the city’s highest elevations, by the Sacre-Coeur in Montmartre, he produced many drawings of Paris from this elevated vantage point. This location served as the basis for his “Under Paris Skies” series of prints and paintings. After a hiatus of almost twenty years, Wright returned to France, making annual visits between 1982 and 2010. These trips, full of art and inspiration, saw the revival of his “Under Paris Skies” series as well as new series exploring nineteenth-century Paris and Giverny, home of impressionist painter Claude Monet.
