The exhibition focuses on the period when the artist used concentrated sources of light to create atmosphere and build ...

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) is a spectacular, life-and-death composition - Getty Images A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery (1766) is named after the clockwork model of the solar ...

Using an extreme form of chiaroscuro, Wright portrays the dramatic moment of intellectual or moral revelation in his ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The man convicted of robbing and killing an elderly man at a Clovis shopping center will spend 15 years to life in prison. Emotions were raw in court Monday, more than a year ...

Joseph Wright's Self-Portrait at the Age of About Forty has been unveiled at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, which holds several of his other works. The painting was accepted in lieu of inheritance tax ...

A “remarkable” self-portrait by world-renowned artist Joseph Wright of Derby has been acquired in a “triumph” for the world’s largest collection of his work, having been privately owned for 250 years.

In The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution, Zara Anishanslin elegantly opens her book by recuperating the moment when Joseph Wright exhibited a ...

A monumental painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, sometimes called Britain’s “painter of the Industrial Revolution” and “painter of the Enlightenment,” is under negotiation for loan to the Huntington ...

A painting by a British 18th Century artist has been saved for the nation. Joseph Wright's Self-Portrait at the Age of About Forty has been unveiled at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, which holds ...

Joseph F. Wright Jr., age 71, of Reading, Pa., and formerly of Carney’s Pt., N.J., passed away unexpectedly on August 6, 2019, at Genesis Mifflin Center. He was born in Philadelphia on May 10, 1948, ...