Stanton Macdonald-Wright
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright, was a modern American artist. He was a co-founder of Synchromism, an early abstract, color-based mode of painting, which was the first American avant-garde art movement to re
Stanton MacDonald-Wright in 1917
Macdonald-Wright's portrait of his brother, Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine), 1914.
Synchromy, Blue-Green, 1916, Toledo Museum of Art
Synchromy No. 3, 1917, Brooklyn Museum
Synchromism
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Synchromism was an art movement founded in 1912 by American artists Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell. Their abstract "synchromies," based on an approach to painting that analogized color to
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
…Stanton Macdonald-Wright (July 8, 1890 – August 22, 1973), was a modern American artist. He was a co-founder of Synchromism, an early abstract, color-based mode of painting, which was the first American avant-garde art movement to receive international attention. Stanton…
Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange, 1920, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), oil on canvas, 41.28 centimetres (16.25 in) × 33.34 centimetres (13.13 in), Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute