THE PROVENANCE IS ATTACHED TO THE REAR. IT DATES AROUND THE 1960s. A NEW FRAME IS RECOMMENDED DUE TO SCRATCHES and water stains on mat. Please ask for any additional info I will be more than happy to help you. Don Wright (1938 – 2007) was active/lived in Louisiana. Don Wright is known for the Bayou landscape, botanic, and marine. Don Wright is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana, and although he is still a resident of Louisiana, he is pretty well traveled. After graduating from Franklin High School in 1957, he enlisted in the U. During his time with the seismographic company, his interest in art grew. At the age of 24, Don Wright started attending classes at Southeastern Louisiana University. The next four years were spent chiefly on conservative studies of art that provided him with a firm foundation in drawing and composition. After he completed his BA, he was accepted to an MFA program at the Pratt Institute of New York. He finished the Pratt Institute in 1970 with an emphasis on painting, drawing, and what he would later call his favorite medium, sculpture. While most established Louisiana artists are known for their interpretations of backwater bayous or the View Carre, Wright never seemed to have settled on a particular theme. His painting style is always unmistakable, but it can be found in subjects ranging from swamps to nudes and courtyards to cabins. In his own words, Don Wright says of his art: I intend to infuse internal reality within the artist with outside stimuli, the product being the finished art object. I deliberately subordinate all questions of style, technique, subject, and medium to this simple philosophy. Wright’s work is also in the collections of Louisiana State University, the Ziegler Museum, Louisiana’s permanent state collection, and many private collectors worldwide.