biography of Alma Brockerman WRIGHT (1875-1952)

Birth place: Salt Lake City, UT

Death place: Le Bugue, Dordogne, France

Addresses: Dordogne, France

Profession: Portrait & landscape painter, muralist, teacher

Studied: LDS College, 1892-95; Univ. Utah, 1895-96 with Haag and Harwood; Académie Julian, Paris with J.P. Laurens, 1902; Académie Colarossi and …cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1902-04, with Bonn‚t.

Exhibited: Utah AI, 1904 (prize), 1905 (medal)

Member: Soc. Utah Artists; Paris AAA; AAPL; Laguna Beach AA.

Work: murals, panels, LDS Temples in Honolulu, & in Cardston, Alberta, Canada; Utah State Capitol; Mormon Temple, Mesa, AZ; Springville AM

Comments: Teaching: Utah colleges, 1896-, 1904-37. Spent WWII in a German prison camp.

Sources: WW53; WW47; P&H Samuels, 539.