Background
Charles L. Wyrick, Jr. was born in 1939 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
Charles L. Wyrick, Jr. was born in 1939 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
Charles Wyrick, Jr. received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College in 1961. Primarily self-taught as a photographer.
In 1980 Charles Wyrick, Jr. was the director of Gibbes Art Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina. Prior to that, he was director of the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington (1973-1979), president of Research & Restoration, Inc., in Richmond, Virginia (1970-1973), art and architecture critic for the Richmond News Leader in Virginia (1970-1973), and executive director for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, in Richmond (1968- 1970). He also did research, wrote about, and exhibits works by young American photographers.
Charles Wyrick, Jr. is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, the American Association of Museums, the Society of Architectural Historians, and SPE.