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, 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
Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
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Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures
Synchromism
…extensive museum and scholarly attention was paid to their highly original achievements. Other American painters who experimented with Synchromism include Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), Andrew Dasburg (1887–1979), Patrick Henry Bruce (1880–1936), and Albert Henry Krehbiel (1873–1945). The earliest extended discussion of…
Benton in 1935
Camouflage pattern of the British ship S.S. Alban as documented by Thomas Hart Benton
People of Chilmark (Figure Composition), 1920, in the Hirshhorn Museum collection in Washington, D.C.
In 1924, Benton depicted three landmarks in New York City's Madison Square within his painting New York, Early Twenties.