Alice Morgan Wright

Alice Morgan Wright (October 10, 1881 – April 8, 1975) was an American sculptor, suffragist, and animal welfare activist.

She was born October 10, 1881, in Albany, to Henry Romeyn Wright, a prosperous wholesale grocer, and Emma Jane Morgan.

[2] The League awarded Wright both the Gutzon Borglum and the Augustus Saint-Gaudens prizes for her outstanding art work.

In Paris she was a pupil of Injalbert and in New York she studied with Gutzon Borglum, James Earle Fraser and Hermon Atkins MacNeil.

[7] "The Fist," perhaps her best known sculpture, shows the modernist influence of Auguste Rodin; other works, like "Medea" (1920), integrated avant-garde Cubist and even Futurist elements.

Wright used uneaten food to create models of her fellow prisoners, using sugar cubes as bases, rather than let it go to waste.

[19] In 1957, Wright lobbied President Eisenhower against using animals in medical testing and scientific research; in 1958, Congress passed the Humane Slaughter Act.

[21] Goode was born in Springfield, Ohio, and raised in Washington, D.C.[21] Goode attended Sidwell Friends, at that time a small Quaker School, then attended Smith College (like Wright, graduating in 1904) where the two women met, and together they worked tirelessly for peace and justice.

[2] Goode was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and co-founder of the National Woman's Party.

Alice Morgan Wright Papers. Alice Morgan Wright (seated third from left) with other students and models in art class
Medea
The Off-Shore Wind