[4] She was considered one of the top art collectors in America for having created the largest collection of modern and contemporary art of the Pacific Northwest with her husband Bagley Wright and was credited for having played a pivotal role in the cultural development of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
She grew up in Vancouver, graduated from the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York,[7] and received her BA from Barnard College, where she studied under noted art historians Meyer Schapiro and Julius S. Held, who inspired her to pursue a career in the appreciation and collection of modern art.
[10] Wright was also a docent at the SAM, leading tours, giving lectures about art at the museum, and taught courses at the Lakeside School.
She also ran the Wright Exhibition Space, a free venue which showed selections from her personal art collection and operated from 1999 to 2014.
The purpose of the consortium was to bring great works of art to Washington state and encouraging collaboration among its members, and the collection included artworks by Jackson Pollock, Agnes Martin, Susan Rothenberg, Jasper Johns, and Larry Clark.