![]() An ethereally beautiful child, Dare looked very much like the illustrations of mythical Undine herself – a lovely water sprite whose love for a handsome prince was doomed because she wasn’t fully human. Her favorite books were fairy tales like Undine and Tales From The Secret Kingdom that were full of enchantment, spells, and challenges for a heroine to conquer. Encouraged by her mother Edie, Dare learned to sketch, paint, write, and sew. 1916ĭare showed an early creative aptitude while she was growing up in Cleveland. Brother and sister were not to reunite until they were in their twenties, and Dare would never see her father again. There, Edie established herself as an internationally prominent portrait artist. ![]() Her father, Ivan, took Dare’s older brother, Blaine, to New York, while Dare and her mother, Edith Stevenson Wright, moved first to Youngstown, Ohio and then settled in Cleveland. ![]() Her parents’ marriage was already fragile by the time Dare was born, and dissolved before Dare turned three. ![]() ![]() Dare and Her Doll Edith On An Ocracoke Island Beach In The 1950s Dare Wright’s Journey Of Artistry And Imaginationĭare Wright’s journey began in Toronto on December 3, 1914. ![]()
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