The Mood Room · Ethel Wright
Ethel Wright Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Ethel Wright
The London beginnings Caroline Elizabeth Wright, known to many as Ethel, began her time with art by walking through the National Gallery, copying the works of others. Her early training took place in the studio of John Seymour Lucas before she moved to Paris. There, at the Académie Julian, she studied under Rodolphe Julian. It was during these years that she developed a steady hand for portraiture and illustration. Her life in London wa
s marked by shifts in name and circumstance. She married Bernard Armiger Barczinsky in Liverpool in 1897, briefly exhibiting as Mrs. Armiger Barclay. After her marriage ended, she returned to the identity of Ethel Wright. In 1901, she traveled to the United States, where she found work as an illustrator for a few years before returning to England in 1905. Portraits and Pierrot The studio often held subjects that ranged from the theatr…
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