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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: (40) Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Stanton Macdonald-Wright.
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Untitled, 1962
- Stanton Macdonald-Wright - Synchromy in Purple 1918-1919 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
- Stanton Macdonald-Wright - Portrait of Riza Royce 1932 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
- Stanton Macdonald Wright - Abstraction on Spectrum (Organization 5) 1914-17 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center American
- Julius LeBlanc Stewart - Portrait of Mrs. Francis Stanton Blake 1908 oil on canvas The Walters Art Museum American
- James Jebusa Shannon - Portrait of Diana MacDonald 1894 oil on canvas Brighton and Hove Museums English Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby), The Dead Soldier, 1789 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby), Shakespeare - The Tempest - Act VI, Scene I, 18th century Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Stanton, Judge Lorenzo P. Latimer , 1882 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1770 Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, 1734-1791)Oil on canvas; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- Carl Mayer, Macdonald, 18th - 19th century Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John MacDonald Aiken, Margaret, 19th - 20th century Museum of Fine Arts
- Joseph H. Davis, American, 1811 –1865 Portrait of Achsah Stanton Achsah Stanton, Aged 18 years Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John MacDonald Aiken, Interior of St. Patrick"s, Rouen, 19th - 20th century Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Nr. P. 75, 1931 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- Gilbert Charles Stuart, James MacDonald of Inglesmauldie, circa 1785 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Nu A, 1929 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Nu E, 1931 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Two Women Nr. II, 1931 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, La Chevriere, 1932 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Apocalypse Nr. V., 1932 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Apocalypse Nr. I, 1931 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Apocalypse Nr. II, 1931 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, St. Gingolph, 1927 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Apocalypse Nr. IV, 1931 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Two Women Nr. I, 1931 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Figurante, 1932 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Bord du Lac, 1931 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Conversation, 1932 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Baigneuse, 1932 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Five Bathers, 1931 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Dancers, 1929 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Susanna, 1929 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Vishnu, 1928 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Bather, 1930 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Dance, 1927 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Apocalypse Nr. III.4, 1931 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, The Waterfall, 1933 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Bouillon, 1927 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- John Buckland Wright, Nu silhouette Nr. II, 1933
Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30) Click on any of the links below to read about artnews or exhibitions related to Macdonald-Wright
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...
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...
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
...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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