Artist: Stanton Macdonald-wright (1890 - 1973)
Nationality: American
Movement: Abstract Art
Media: Painting, Design
Influences:

Biography:
American abstract artist, Stanton MacDonald-Wright moved to Paris in 1907. There, he and Morgan Russell developed a style they called Synchromism. The idea was to paint based on an abstract use of color. They first began exhibiting their work in 1913. MacDonald-Wright moved to London from 1914 to 1916 before returning to the United States and settling in California. He began experimenting with various new mediums and also took a strong interest in Asian art.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Film for Kineidoscope, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , no date, Black and white 16 mm film
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright Untitled Etching 1962
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Kineidoscope Machine #2 (color-light machine), Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1969, Machine; metal and plastic color filters
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Synchrome Kineidoscope (color-light machine), Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1960-1969, Machine; metal and plastic color filters
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Tree, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1933, Graphite on paper
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Portrait of Riza Royce, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1932, Oil on canvas
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Misty Peaks, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1933, Graphite on drawing board
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Santa Monica, Malibu, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1933, Graphite on drawing board
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Clump of Trees before a House, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1938, Lithograph
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Santa Monica, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1933, Pencil on paper
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With All One’s Might, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1956, Crayon drawing on paper (?)
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O Flying Butterfly, I Feel Myself a Creature of Dust, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1966-1967, Woodcut
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On a Journey Ill, My Dreams Wander Over the Withered Moon, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1966-1967, Woodcut
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Wild Sea and the Milky Way Athwart the Island of Sado, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1966-1967, Woodcut
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An Old Pond, a Frog Leaps in the Sound of Water, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1966-1967, Woodcut
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In the Hand the Firefly Makes a Cold Brilliance, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1966-1967, Woodcut
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Synchromy in Purple, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , late 1918-early 1919, Oil on canvas
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Camera designed for Kineidoscope Machine, Jules Elkind (born 1915)  (Artist), circa 1950s-1960s, Camera; metal, plastic and glass
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Cruel Heat, My Mind in a Whirl, I Listen to the Thunder Rumble, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890 - 1973) , 1966-1967, Woodcut
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright - Synchromy in Purple 1918-1919 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright - Portrait of Riza Royce 1932 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Stanton Macdonald Wright - Abstraction on Spectrum (Organization 5) 1914-17 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center American
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Stanton MacDonald-Wright Il Solo Catastrofico watercolor on paper 1971
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Piscine, Morgan Russell (United States, New York, New York City, 1886 - 1953) , 1933, Oil on canvas
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James Jebusa Shannon - Portrait of Diana MacDonald 1894 oil on canvas Brighton and Hove Museums English
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Julius LeBlanc Stewart - Portrait of Mrs. Francis Stanton Blake 1908 oil on canvas The Walters Art Museum American
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Eglise de Breuil le Vert (Oise) (titre factice) (1864) by R J J ; MACLURE MACDONALD & MACGREGOR (lithographe) ; MACLURE (lithographe) ; MACDONALD (lithographe) ; MACGREGOR (lithographe)
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Joseph H. Davis, American, 1811 –1865 Portrait of Achsah Stanton Achsah Stanton, Aged 18 years
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John Stanton Judge Lorenzo P. Latimer black Ink on paper 1882
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Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1770 Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, 1734-1791)Oil on canvas;
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Carl Mayer Macdonald 18th - 19th century
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Brown Basket, David MacDonald (United States, born 1946)  (Artist), 1987, Stoneware
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Jan Stussy Acrobat Family Variations Lithograph with transfer process 1964
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John MacDonald Aiken Margaret etching 19th - 20th century
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Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) The Dead Soldier oil on canvas 1789
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Rev. Dr. John Macdonald
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John MacDonald Aiken Interior of St. Patrick's, Rouen etching on old paper 19th - 20th century
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Jeanette MacDonald, Clarence Sinclair Bull (United States, 1895 - 1979) , circa 1932, Gelatin-silver print
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Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) Shakespeare - The Tempest - Act VI, Scene I Line and stipple engraving with hand coloring 18th century
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PORT DE DORSET, ANGLETERRE ; OU VUE DANS LE DORSET (PAYSAGE DE STUDLAND) (1903) by HUGUES-STANTON Sir Herbert
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Artist: attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright and John W. Ayers, Chicago Title: Side Chair Date:
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Pair of Side Chairs from the Frank Lloyd Wright Studio, Oak Park, Illinois, Frank Lloyd Wright (United States (Illinois, Chicago), 1867 - 1959) , 1898-1902, Oak, pine, leather (replaced)
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VUE DU LAC DE NEMI AU SOLEIL COUCHANT (4e quart 19e siècle) by WRIGHT Joseph, WRIGHT OF DERBY (dit)
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Margaret Hardon Wright Bringing Home the Deer etching 19th century
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PORTRAIT D'HOMME (1771 vers ; 1772 et) by WRIGHT Joseph, WRIGHT OF DERBY (dit)
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John Buckland Wright Nr. P. 75 Wood Engraving 1931
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John Buckland Wright Susanna Dry point 1930
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John Buckland Wright Nu E Wood Engraving 1931
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John Buckland Wright Nu A Wood Engraving 1929
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John Buckland Wright Bather Engraving 1932
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John Buckland Wright Interieure Nr. 1. Engraving 1932
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John Buckland Wright Nu assis Dry point 1933
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John Buckland Wright Nude Engraving 1933
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John Buckland Wright Summer Dry point 1930
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John Buckland Wright La Chevriere Wood Engraving 1932
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Margaret Hardon Wright The Christ of Antwerp etching 19th - 20th century
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John Buckland Wright Two Women Nr. II Wood Engraving 1931
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John Buckland Wright Apocalypse Nr. I Wood Engraving 1931
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John Buckland Wright Apocalypse Nr. IV Wood Engraving 1931
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John Buckland Wright Dancers Wood Engraving 1929

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Color, Myth, and Music:Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism
Among his many accomplishments, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, along with fellow American painter Morgan Russell, fathered the Synchromism movement. Convinced that color and sound were equivalent phenomena and that one could o...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: John Howe in Minnesota: The Prairie School Legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright
Howe moved to Minnesota in the mid-1960s, where he ran his own architectural practice that focused, like Wright’s, on domestic architecture. This exhibition will comprise 75 to 100 drawi...
Guggenheim Museum: 40th Anniversary of the Landmark Frank Lloyd Wright Building
When the Guggenheim Museum was completed forty ears ago, it represented a milestone in world architecture, said Thomas Krens, Director of the Soloman R. Guggenheim Foundation. It remains on of the great buildings of the twentieth century. We are t...
Oakville Galleries: Andrew Wright: Home and Garden
Over the summer months, Wright began his research for Home and Garden on the grounds of Gairloch, looking every bit the part of a nineteenth century artist. With a straw hat for cover, a solid drawing table for support, paper, a pencil and a camer...
Andrew Mummery Gallery: Paintings of Peter Lynch
It would be a mistake to read Lynch's work purely in terms of the history of modernist abstraction or see it as purely "process painting". Although Lynch undoubtedly, and not always seriously, plays with modernist tropes, something more fundamenta...
Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Focus on the Figure: Southern California Artists (1850-1950)
Almost all the figurative artists who gathered in the artistic communities of southern California during that time had studied in Eastern and European academies which stressed the primacy of the figure. Arriving in California, they faced two chal...
Dayton Art Institute: Orville and Wilbur: The Wright Brothers' Legacy
This exhibition portrays the beginning of powered flight with photographs and original lithographs from the first two decades of powered flight, said Alex Nyerges, Director and CEO of The Dayton Art Institute. According to Nyerges, the imag...
Turkaly Art Gallery: Robert Wright: Looking Back
This series of artworks is a detour from his well-known abstract work involving figurative expressionism. Being deaf since early childhood, Wright’s work has always focused on movement and action, with gestures often resembling Japanese calligraph...
Price Tower Art Center: Robert Indiana 66: Paintings and Sculpture
Frank Lloyd Wright ’s Price Tower was his pioneering experiment in the multi-use skyscraper: a slim, tall, richly detailed structure, originally designed to combine business offices, shops and apartments. The non-profit Price Tower Arts Center ret...
St. John's Museum of Art: Virginia Wright-Frierson: 2000, A Year in Paintings
Another undertaking being explored includes Wright-Frierson’s design and ...
National Gallery: Light
The first section, Symbolic Light, contains works in which light takes on a metaphorical meaning, such as the Gallery’s 'Adoration of the Shepherds' by Rembrandt and the rarely seen 'After the Deluge; the Forty-First Day' by G. F. Watts (Guildfor...
Artangel: Giya Kancheli: Imber
For three nights over August Bank Holiday, Imber will finally lay its past to rest – the result of a three year-long project commissioned by Artangel with the support of the British Army and the Diocese of Salisbury. Transformed by a special...
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane: Three Brisbane Artists: Judith Wright, Daniel Templeman, Paul Bai
There is a quiet grace in the works of Judith Wright, which are not only sublimely beautiful but also often thought provoking and deeply moving. Blind of Sight, deals with the maternity and the images reflect this in the singular beauty of a mothe...
New Mexico Photography Field School: 2001 Workshop Offerings Announced
2001 Schedule includes: THE POSSIBILITIES OF CAMERA FORMAT: Making Photographs with the Large, Medium and Panoramic Camera, June 4 through 10, with Craig Varjabedian and Steve Goff. UNDER A MOST BRILLIANT NEW MEXICO SKY, June 18 thro...
Mobius: Domestic Archaeology: Site/Insite an Installation by Edythe F. Wright
In my project, Domestic Archaeology: Site/Insite, I work as a spy, surgeon, archaeologist, painter, display technician, graphic designer, writer and sculptor. Part of an ongoing project of urban archaeology, the exhibition at ...
Yale School of Architecture Galleries: Transcending Type:
"Transcending Type" presents their designs, which range from the "humanized" highway interchange by the firm Reiser + Umemoto to the installation by Predock_Frane for a contemplative space, made up of 5,000 barely visible green and white suspended...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: Distinctly American: The Photographs of Wright Morris
Morris occupies a singular position in the history of American arts and letters. Recognized as one of America?s most gifted authors, he is also respected for his photography and his pioneering work combining images and text. Morris wrote 33 award-...
Institute of Modern Art: Another Landscape
Travelling with the exhibition to India, Wright's projections inhale the experience of her contact with different physical and cultural landscapes bringing them back to the body and summoning up the extraordinary effect such experiences have on o...
24 HR Art - Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art: Swamp Dynamics: an installation  by Bronwyn Wright
This is not just a recording of a particular landscape but rather an emersion into an ecosystem and its inhabitants.  The exhibition presents a images of an unusual confluence of the artist, the environment, and the subculture of car hoons, who us...
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum: Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright
"Frank Lloyd Wright is such a giant figure in the story of 20th-century American culture, architecture and design," said Elizabeth Broun, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "The museum is delighted to pr...
Textile Museum of Canada: Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth and Reality
Avaalaaqiaq is deeply committed to preserving her heritage and making it accessible to an international audience. Much of her work focuses on Inuit legends passed along by her grandmother, as well as a world view derived from oral tradition and ex...
Art Gallery of Ontario: In Light: Video Installation by Seth Price
The Art Gallery of Ontario is proud to highlight the importance of video art. Begun on April 6, 2002 and running until April 4, 2004, an exhibition series entitled In Light presents video installations by eight contemporary artists. This two-year ...
Monash University Gallery: Another Landscape: work of three women artists from Australia, Japan and India
The exhibition sets out to achieve a deeper mutual understanding of different cultural outlooks through the work of thre...
David Scott Gallery: Pregnant Women Series
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Milestones of Modernism 1880-1940: Selections from the Norwest Collection

More than 200 objects are included in the exhibition—furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass and works on paper. Created between 1880 and 1940, they represent a survey of the major movements of the period: A...
artoose: Spring Open Weekend: Work by 14, Young, Contemporary Artists
We are also showing a collection of 80 cards made by contemporary surrealist Dan Bendel, recent 'chaos' paintings by Rufus Knightwebb, 'encapsulated' resin sculptures by Mark Russell, radical painting by post-pop artist Gary Colclough, dystopian c...
Guggenheim Museum: Call for Artists : Design Virtual Shelters Using Google Earth and 3-D Modeling Software
“Throughout the Guggenheim’s 50th anniversary year, one of our most important goals is to engage new and ever-broader global audiences to understand and appreciate art and architecture through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives,...
Cafe Gallery Project: Destiny Manifest Eden's End: Cathy Ward and Eric Wright
Manifest destiny was a term first expressed by John L. O'Sullivan and used to describe the belief of the 1840's in the inevitable territorial expansion of the United States: .... and that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to over spr...
Indianapolis Art Center: WILLIS BING DAVIS: Ceremony and Ritual
Also on view will be the results of a year-long project joining artists from Dayton/Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Nearly twenty artists have visited each other's studios, taken trips and pursued hands-on workshops together. The exhibiti...
Frick Collection: Whistler, Women, and Fashion
The exhibition is organized by Susan Grace Galassi, Curator at The Frick Collection, and Margaret F. MacDonald, a leading Whistler scholar and Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Whistler Studies at the University of Glasgow; Aileen Ribe...
Dallas Museum of Art: Circa 1900: Design at the Turn of the Century
Included in the exhibition will be furniture by the American arts and crafts master Gustav Stickley, as well as the French art nouveau designer Louis Majorelle. Frank Lloyd Wright designs, Louis Comfort tiffany glass, George Jensen silver, and...
Cambridge Galleries: Translinear: 12 Canadian Artists
The concise premise of the exhibition is that painting has a particular visual language and that paintings exist to generate a state of awareness or understanding on the part of the viewer which is not limited by context, time or place. By bringin...
Stephen Cohen Gallery: Edmund Teske: Images Out of Time
A pioneering visual artist, Teske was born in Chicago in 1911, where his childhood interest in photography grew into a 60-year pursuit of artistic freedom. His early training at Taliesin with Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s offered Teske import...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: American Modern, 1925-1940: Design for a New Age
On display are approximately 150 objects—furniture, clocks, appliances, lamps, textiles, posters, and more from the Museum's collection and the John C. Waddell Collection, a major promise...
d.u.m.b.o. arts center: The Human Body
Suzanne Wright, Hedi Sorger and Sharon Malloy make closely observed and intimate portraits of both interior and exterior aspects of the body, while Gerard Gaskin, Daniel Zeller and Pedro Elias Cruz Castro ponder the cultural connotations of ana...
Price Tower Art Center: Karim Rashid: I Want to Change the World
Now, for the first time, he will be the subject of a solo museum exhibition in his home country, the United States. From April 28 through September 17, Price Tower Arts Center will present the exhibition Karim Rashid. Organized by the Arts Cent...
J. Paul Getty Center: Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske
Drawn chiefly from the Museum’s collection, Spirit into Matter includes a large body of prints recently acquired from Teske’s heirs. Many of the roughly 128 works on view have never been published or exhibited, including several exquisitely crafte...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: John Drawbridge - Wide Open Interior
John Drawbridge has been a leading figure in New Zealand printmaking since his return from study in England and Europe in the mid-1960s. His paintings are less well known but equally impressive. Wide Open Interior is the first exhibition to p...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and the Geffen Contemporary: The Architecture of R. M. Schindler
The exhibition will include approximately 110 original drawings by Schindler, approximately 15 models of the most significant architectural works, a selection ...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Last Week! Milestones of Modernism 1880-1940: Selections from the Norwest Collection
More than 200 objects are included in the exhibition—furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass and works on paper. Created between 1880 and 1940, they represent a survey of the major movements of the period: Arts...

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