1. Stanton Macdonald-Wright, was a modern American artist.
13 Facts About Stanton Macdonald-Wright
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright was a co-founder of Synchromism, an early abstract, color-based mode of painting, which was the first American avant-garde art movement to receive international attention.
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright spent his adolescence in Santa Monica, California, where his father ran a seaside hotel.
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright collaborated with Russell in painting abstract "synchromies" and staged Synchromist exhibitions in Munich in June 1913, in Paris in October 1913, and in New York in March 1914.
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Secretly co-authored by Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Modern Painting: Its Tendency and Meaning reviews the major art movements of the previous century from Manet to Cubism, praises the work of Cezanne, and predicts a time, soon to come, when an abstract art of pure color will supplant realism.
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Not long after returning to New York, Stanton Macdonald-Wright separated from Russell but both continued to work in the Synchromist style, or with Synchromist color effects, though Stanton Macdonald-Wright's painting came to include more vestiges of representational imagery.
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In 1916, Willard and Stanton Macdonald-Wright were key organizers of the prestigious "Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters" in New York.
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright exhibited his work at Alfred Stieglitz's famed 291 gallery in New York in 1917.
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright became involved in local theater, serving as the director of the Santa Monica Theater Guild as well as writing and directing plays, designing sets, and acting himself.
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright was a significant presence and a charismatic personality in the Los Angeles art scene for the next several decades.
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright was the director of the Southern California division of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1943, and personally completed several major civic art projects, including the murals in Santa Monica City Hall.
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright taught art for many years at UCLA and kept studios in Kyoto and Florence.
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Portrait Gallery, among other museums.