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George Hand Wright
20th Century illustrator
American, (1872–1951)
This biographical note is by Paul Rizo-Patrón, grandson of George Hand Wright's brother-in-law, Arthur A. Boylan.

Artist George Hand Wright was born in Pennsylvania in about 1872. His masterful drawings and water colors merited his being made a member of the National Academy. As an illustrator, he was a weekly contributor to the Saturday Evening Post.

He was one of the founders of the artistic community of Westport, Connecticut, where he owned a large property with a Dutch Colonial house, an art studio, and a horse barn, all set on several acres of land.

George Wright had married -early in the 20th century- Anne Boylan (1877-1954), daughter of Arthur Boylan and Anna (McKenna) Boylan. She was the sister -among others- of William A. Boylan (1869-1940), founder and first President of Brooklyn College, and of Arthur A. Boylan (1879-1957), a President of the New York High School Principal's Association. George Hand Wright and his wife Anne (Boylan) Wright had no children, and he died on March 14, 1951, in Westport, Connecticut.

His Westport home was eventually inherited by one of his wife's nephews, Frank Boylan, whose widow (Constance Blum Boylan) still lives in it today. The house contained a large oil portrait of George Hand Wright painted by his friend, Swedish-born Carl Anderson.