Spring Synchromy

Artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890 - 1973)

Date1918

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions50 1/2 x 36 3/4 in. (128.3 x 93.3 cm)
Framed: 52 1/2 × 38 1/4 × 1 7/8 in.

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineAlfred Stieglitz Collection, Co-owned by Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Accession number ASC.2012.71

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Alfred Stieglitz Collection

ProvenanceAlfred Stieglitz, New York, NY; by bequest to Georgia O’Keeffe (his wife), New York, NY, 1946; to Fisk University, Nashville, TN, 1949; to Fisk University, Nashville, TN, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, as co-owners, 2012
Label TextStanton Macdonald-Wright co-founded the art movement “Synchromism” in 1912. He based his Synchromist paintings on color “scales” that were similar to musical scales. Macdonald-Wright mimicked sequences of musical chords by arranging brilliant, jewel-like pigments in staggered blocks and prismatic shapes.

Stanton Macdonald-Wright fue cofundador del movimiento artístico denominado “sincromismo” en 1912. Basaba sus obras sincromistas en “escalas” de color similares a las musicales. Macdonald-Wright imitaba secuencias de acordes musicales disponiendo pigmentos brillantes, como joyas, en bloques escalonados y formas prismáticas.