Seattle arts patron Virginia Wright dies
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 acquisition of 鈥淎djacent, Against, Upon,鈥 the monumental stone sculpture sited at Myrtle Edwards Park on the Seattle waterfront.