DIANNE WRIGHT

A few years after studying at Indiana University, Bloomington, Dianne Wright began a career in the Fine Art field. For fifteen years she worked shoulder to shoulder with Jane Coats Eckert of Eckert Fine Art to develop a strong market for the Hoosier Impressionists in the Midwest and beyond. Ms. Wright took particular interest in Charles Warren Mundy, a major national figure in the Contemporary Impressionist scene, and helped build his career.

In 1996, she founded G. Dianne Wright Interiors; a thriving residential design firm built on the simple esthetic "Start with Art".

Coats Wright Art & Design, a gallery and design studio dedicated to "Start with Art", opened new doors at 1057 E. 54th St, Indianapolis with a previous location in the Indiana Design Center. Once again, Jane Coats Eckert and Dianne Wright have joined forces to bring a carefully selected variety of Contemporary Impressionism and Modern art to the public, while offering design services to create a comfortable environment for the client and an esthetically compatible space that allows the artwork to show well.

JANE COATS ECKERT

Jane Coats Eckert roots are in 19th and 20th American Art on whom she wrote and lectured during her early years in the Midwest. In 1996 Eckert Fine Art opened a gallery in Naples, Florida where Jane formed a business relationship and friendship with the great Robert Rauschenberg. She curated shows on Rauschenberg at museums and mounted an exhibition reuniting the artist with his Art Car which was delivered to the gallery from the BMW headquarters in Germany.

Jane worked directly with some of the country’s finest Post War and Contemporary artists including Christo, John Chamberlain, Julian Stanczyk, Robert Indiana, and James Rosenquist. In Eckert Fine Art’s new location in Washington Depot, CT she continues to focus on these artists as well as Sol LeWitt, James Turrell, Don Gummer, Hunt Slonem, Chizuru Morii Kaplan, Robert Cottingham and is the exclusive representative of the Realist painter, Eric Forstmann.

Eckert Fine Art has placed important pieces by Roy Lichtenstein, Henry Moore, Giorgio de Chirico,Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Thomas Hart Benton, and George Bellows with some of the world’s finest museums and collectors.

Ms. Eckert served as Chair of the Director’s Advisory Council at MASS MoCA, as Secretary of the Fine Art Dealers Association, and was named one of the 25 Most Influential People in Litchfield County, Connecticut. She is currently Chair of the President’s Circle at Hancock Shaker Village and a supporter of many national and local charities.