Robin K. Wright

Robin K. Wright is an American art historian. She is a professor emerita at the University of Washington and was curator at the Burke Museum in Seattle,^[1] where she was a director of the Bill Holm Center.^[2] She retired in 2015 and was made director emerita.^[3][4]

Wright has written or edited multiple books on Northwest Coast art history. Her book A Time of Gathering won a 1992 Washington State Governor's Writers Award^[5] and her book Northern Haida Master Carvers won a 2002 Washington State Book Awards.^[6] She studied art history at the University of Washington, earning a master's in 1977 and a doctorate in 1985.^[1][7]

Bibliography

• A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State. Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture and University of Washington Press. 1991. (Edited)^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}
• Northern Haida master carvers. Seattle : Vancouver: University of Washington Press ; Douglas & McIntyre. 2001. ISBN 978-0-295-98084-3.^{[15][16][17][18]}
• Charles Edenshaw. London UK: Black Dog Publishing. 2013. ISBN 978-1-908966-20-9. Edited with Daina Augaitis and James Hart.
• In the Spirit of the Ancestors:Contemporary Northwest Coast Art at the Burke Museum. Burke Museum and University of Washington Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0-295-99521-2. Edited with Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse^[19][20][21]
• Skidegate House Models: From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond. Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: a Bill Holm Center Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2024. ISBN 978-0-295-75105-4. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.^[22]

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