“Wright loved and drew much artistic inspiration from the neighborhood around Ninth and F Street, Northwest in Washington, DC, sometimes known as “Gallery Place.” For over three decades, his F Street studio was the heart of his artistic practice. He wrote, “I have had this studio since 1966, after 32 years in Gallery Place, I was kicked out of my eccentric-but-charming, old studio on the first floor of the Le Droit Building in Gallery Place when urban renewal reared its ugly–or beautiful head. The threat was always present from the time I moved in in 1964, that the building would be torn down as well as the rest of the row of nineteenth century buildings on F Street. The riots of ‘68, however, cooled the ardor of potential developers which meant that I was able to hold onto my studio for another 28 years…. It was a strange time.”