Sarah Anne Canright

Place: Chicago

Born: 1941

Biography:

Sarah Canright is an American painter born in Chicago, Illinois, United States in 1941. She studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago and began exhibiting in Chicago for six years after graduation. Canright's work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. She is known for her abstract paintings and her association with the Chicago Imagists, a group of representational artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in the late 1960s. Canright's work is characterized by grotesquerie, Surrealism, and a complete indifference to New York art world trends. Her paintings often incorporate knotted calligraphy with pale pastel tones, and she has also experimented with plein-air painting at the Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists' Residency in Saugatuck, Michigan.