Rite of Spring

Dmitri Wright is a Master Artist and inspirational Instructor. Dmitri's work is built upon the Impressionist Masters in the tradition of his mentors, while rooted in his classical training in the Academy and his experimentations of Expressionism and Abstraction.

Dmitri Wright’s artistic lineage stems from the American Impressionists.  His mentors have been Samuel Brecher, who studied under Charles W. Hawthorne, the founder of the Cape Cod Art School.  Hawthorne was a student of William Merritt Chase. Donald Brown an expressionist, influenced Wright to accept the Max Beckman International Scholarship at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, where he then studied under Rueben Tam, and at Cooper Union, he studied under Wolf Kahn and Will Barnet.

As an American artist, Wright’s travels have taken him to paint and/or teach throughout the United States and he visited over a dozen National Park sites;  in addition to Itrips taly, France, Ireland, Austria, England, West Indies, Central and South America, and China. His work focuses on the Preservation and Progress of Impressionism, yet rooted in the Classical foundational and traditions to express beauty.