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David
Wright, a Nashville based artist, periodically departs the 20th
century for destinations in the 18th and 19th centuries. He travels
back to the raw and often savage American frontier of the fur traders,
trappers, the long hunters and mountain men. David’s vision of the
American frontiersman, his knowledge of their clothing, equipment
and, most of all his understanding of their character and personality
is the product of a life long fascination with the history of his
chosen period. He is an avid "buckskinner" and often ventures into
the wilderness to recreate for himself the world of the American
frontier. It is here, while living off the land, hunting with black
powder rifles and bivouacking in primitive campsites that David
Wright’s love of history and his art come together. Accuracy in
the faithful rendering of historcial artifacts plus a compassionate
understanding of the hardships and pleasures of life on the frontier
makes David Wright’s work something to see.
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