Fred Wight was born on June 1, 1902, in New York City, the son of Carol Van Buren, and Alice Stallknecht Wight. In 1923 he graduated from the University of Virginia and went to France for two years, to study painting at the Academie Julien and elsewhere. From 1942-1945, he served as a lieutenant commander. He was separated from the armed forces in 1945, and returned to take his M.A. at Harvard University, under Paul Sachs and Jakob Rosenberg, concentrating in museology. He served as associate director of the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art from 1950-1953, before taking a position as professor of art and director of the UCLA Galleries in 1953. He was also chair of the Art Department from 1963-1966.
Fred Wight died on July 26, 1986, after the rather lightning invasion of a disease he'd fended off for some years. What those who knew him closely delight in was the fact that he never stopped working: he was painting fresh, beautiful, really marvellous canvases right to the very end.
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Wight, Frederick
San Andreas Fault
Date: 1985 Movement: Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Wight, Frederick
Meditation on mating
Date: 1984 Movement: Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Wight, Frederick
Evening
Date: 1984 Movement: Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Wight, Frederick
Staghorn
Date: 1983 Movement: Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Wight, Frederick
Hour by Hour
Date: 1985 Movement: Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Wight, Frederick
The decoy maker, a portrait of A. Elmer Crowell
Date: 1929 Movement: Expressionism Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Wight, Frederick
Entrance to the Ranch
Date: 1980 Movement: Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Wight, Frederick
Sky Event
Date: 1969 Movement: Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Wight, Frederick
New Moon
Date: 1984 Movement: Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Wight, Frederick
Tame Palms
Date: 1982 Movement: Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Wight, Frederick
Home at Dawn
Date: 1976 Movement: Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Wight, Frederick
Foreign Bodies
Date: Not dated Movement: Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas