Grant Wright
(1865 - 1935)
Grant Wright was active/lived in New York, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey. Grant Wright is known for impressionist and realist cityscape painting, illustration, commercial.
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Following is the obituary of the artist from a file contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Louis Paul Hennefeld
Peoria Star
"Grant Wright, 70, Dies In East of Pneumonia"
Grant Wright aged 70, one of the leading landscape painters in the country, and known to practically every older resident of Peoria, died yesterday morning at the North Hudson Hospital at Union City, N.J., following a short illness.
Death was caused by pneumonia. He was admitted to the hospital Saturday night, being taken from his home, 327 Park Avenue, Weehawken, N.J.
As a cartoonist and artist he worked on various Peoria newspapers, especially the Transcript in the days of Alexander Stone. Moving to New
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