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Stanton Macdonald-Wright | |||
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1890 in Charlottesville, VA Died 1973 in Pacific Palisades, CA |
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| Introspection, 1963-64 | ||||
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paint on canvas 60 x 35 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 1995.70 |
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| Macdonald-Wright, along with
painter Morgan Russell, founded Synchromism, an optically based system of
painting anchored in orchestrating colors the way one would arrange musical
notes. Their resulting works were among the first abstract paintings presented
in the international arena. Macdonald-Wright's work was represented in the
famous Armory Show of 1913. He was also recognized as a leading authority
on ancient Chinese and Japanese art; Asian philosophy greatly influenced
his later work. |
