SAM isn鈥檛 the only lucky recipient of Virginia Wright鈥檚 love for the visual arts. In the 1970s, she set up the Virginia Wright Fund, which essentially bankrolled a significant outdoor sculpture collection at Western Washington University in Bellingham. Wright also shepherded Seattle鈥檚 1976鈥
The Virginia Wright Fund donated several well-known public sculptures to Seattle (including Barnett Newman鈥檚 鈥淏roken Obelisk鈥 in University of Washington鈥檚 Red Square and Jonathan Borofsky鈥檚 鈥淗ammering Man鈥 looming above Seattle Art Museum) as well as the campus of Western Washington University鈥