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Alice Morgan Wright (Albany, New York, October 10, 1881 - Albany, 1975) was an American sculptor, suffragist, and advocate of animal rights. Her cubist and abstract sculptures, as well as those of Adelheid Roosevelt (1878-1962), were some of the earliest created in the US, circa 1917.
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Wright came from an old Albany family. She was a student at St. Agnes School in Albany (now Doane Stuart School). A graduate of Smith College, she continued her studies in New York City, Paris, and London. She exhibited domestically at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Institute of Philadelphia, and her work appeared in Europe at the Royal Academy of Arts (London) and the Salon des Beaux Arts (Paris). She was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors and a director of the Society of Independent Artists. Wright was also an ardent suffragist, so ardent that while studying in Paris, she left her art work there to go to England to take part in the activities of the British suffragists, sharing their imprisonment in London. She was Recording Secretary of the Woman's Suffrage Party of New York during the winning campaign. Wright and Edith J. Goode were lifetime companions.