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The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
...-Wright, Stanton ( b Charlottesville, Va., 8 July 1890 ; d Pacific Palisades, Calif., 22 Aug. 1973 ). American painter, designer, and experimental artist, remembered chiefly as a pioneer of abstract art. In 1907 he moved to Paris, where he met Morgan Russell in 1911 ; together they evolved Synchromism —a style of painting based on the abstract use of colour. They first exhibited their works in this style in 1913 and claimed that they, rather than Delaunay and Kupka (whose work of the time was very similar), were the originators of a new...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (5 ed.)
...-Wright, Stanton ( b Charlottesville, Va. , 8 July 1890 ; d Pacific Palisades, nr. Los Angeles , 22 Aug. 1973 ). American painter , designer , and experimental artist , remembered chiefly as a pioneer of abstract art. In 1907 he moved to Paris, where he met Morgan Russell in 1911 ; together they evolved Synchromism —a style of painting based on the abstract use of colour. They first exhibited works in this vein in 1913 and claimed that they, rather than Delaunay and Kupka (whose work of the time was very similar), were the creators...
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A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (3 ed.)
...-Wright, Stanton ( 1890–1973 ) American painter , designer , teacher , administrator , and writer , remembered chiefly as a pioneer of abstract art. He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, moved to California as a child, and entered the Art Students League of Los Angeles in 1905 . In 1907 he moved to Paris, where he studied briefly at the Académie Colarossi, the Académie Julian, and the École des Beaux -Arts. He met Morgan Russell in 1911 and together they evolved Synchromism —a style of painting based on the abstract use of colour....
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists (2 ed.)
...-Wright, Stanton ( 1890–1973 ). Painter , printmaker , and experimental artist Also a playwright and theater professional. An early proponent of abstraction, he co-founded synchromism . His expansive, chromatically drenched canvases of the later 1910s had no equal in American painting until the 1960s. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Macdonald-Wright moved with his family to Santa Monica, California, when he was ten. His art studies began in 1905 at the Los Angeles Art Students League. There he mastered a dark, painterly realism, but after...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
...-Wright, Stanton ( b Charlottesville, VA , 8 July 1890 ; d Pacific Palisades, CA , 22 Aug 1973 ), painter . Macdonald-Wright was brought up in Santa Monica, CA, and first studied art from 1904 to 1905 at the Art Students League, New York, under Warren T. Hedges ( 1883–1910 ). In 1907 he went to Paris and enrolled at the Sorbonne ( 1908–12 ), also studying briefly at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Académie Colarossi and Académie Julian. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne in 1910 . In 1911 Macdonald-Wright met Morgan...
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The Oxford Companion to Western Art
...-Wright, Stanton ( 1890–1973 ). American painter, designer, experimental artist, teacher, administrator, and writer, remembered chiefly as a pioneer of abstract art. He was born in Charlottesville, Va , moved to California as a child, and entered the Art Students' League of Los Angeles in 1905 . In 1907 he moved to Paris, where he studied briefly at the Académie Colarossi, the Académie Julian, and the École des Beaux-Arts. He met Morgan Russell in 1911 and together they evolved Synchromism —a style of painting based on the abstract use of...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
...The first American movement to rise to prominence in modern art, Synchronism originated in Paris in 1912 with the painters Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell . It was based on the creation of shapes through colour and the juxtaposition of colours from different points of the spectrum. Its sources included Impressionism , Cézanne, Matisse, and, later, the Orphism of Robert...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
...Russell and Macdonald-Wright abandoned this colorful style of abstract painting and returned to representation, although after Russell's death in 1953 , Macdonald-Wright resumed painting Synchromies. For illustration, see color pl. 4: VI, 2. 2. Morgan Russell Cosmic Synchromy , oil on canvas, 419 × 337 mm, 1913–14. Munson–Williams–Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY/Art Resource, NY [ See also Benton, Thomas Hart ; Macdonald-Wright, Stanton ; and Russell, Morgan . ] Writings Ausstellung der Synchromisten Morgan Russell, S. Macdonald-Wright (exh. cat. by...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...(Greek sun , ‘with’, and khrōma , ‘colour’) A form of abstract art resembling orphism begun in 1912 by two young US artists living in Paris, Morgan Russell ( 1886–1953 ) and Stanton Macdonald-Wright ( 1890–1973 ). It was characterized by movements of pure colour evolving by gradations or rhythms from the primaries to the intermediary colours. Russell’s Synchromy in Green ( 1913 ) was the first painting to bear the name. See also cubism ; dadaism ; fauvism ; futurism ; impressionism ; surrealism ; vorticism...
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The Oxford Companion to Western Art
...content of painting. It was developed by two American painters working in Paris, Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Morgan Russell ( 1886–1953 ), who issued their manifesto at joint exhibitions in Munich and Paris in 1913 . Their theories developed from Neo-Impressionist ideas which were themselves based on such scientific analyses as that of Michel-Eugène Chevreul . Although synchromism was roughly contemporaneous with the Orphism of Robert Delaunay , Macdonald-Wright had used colour theory in figurative works before meeting Delaunay; though contact...