Details
STANTON MACDONALD-WRIGHT
Conception Synchromy
Signed with initials-oil on canvas mounted on board
30 x 12in. (76.2 x 30.5cm.)
This painting has been dated both 1914 and 1916-1917.
Conception Synchromy
Signed with initials-oil on canvas mounted on board
30 x 12in. (76.2 x 30.5cm.)
This painting has been dated both 1914 and 1916-1917.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist in Paris, 1956
Lydia Winston, Malibu
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 16 1990, lot 45
Lydia Winston, Malibu
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 16 1990, lot 45
Literature
Michel Seuphor, L'Art abstrait: ses origines, ses premiers maitres, Paris, 1950, p. 155
Jules Langsner, "Art News from Los Angeles," Art News, vol. 49, no. 2, April, 1950, p. 50, illustrated
Michel Seuphor, Dictionnaire de la peinture abstrait, Paris, 1957, p. 20
"A Splendor of Springtime Shows," Time, vol. 81, no. 19, May 1963, p. 62, illustrated
Michel Seuphor, L'Art abstrait: vol. 1: 1910-1918, origines et premiers maitres, Paris, 1971, pp. 215-216, no. 51, illustrated
John Wilmerding, The Genius of American Painting, New York, 1973, p. 226, illustrated
Gail Levin, "The Tradition of the Heroic Figure in Synchromist Abstractions," Arts Magazine, vol. 51, no. 10, June 1977, p. 42, fig. 19, illustrated
Jules Langsner, "Art News from Los Angeles," Art News, vol. 49, no. 2, April, 1950, p. 50, illustrated
Michel Seuphor, Dictionnaire de la peinture abstrait, Paris, 1957, p. 20
"A Splendor of Springtime Shows," Time, vol. 81, no. 19, May 1963, p. 62, illustrated
Michel Seuphor, L'Art abstrait: vol. 1: 1910-1918, origines et premiers maitres, Paris, 1971, pp. 215-216, no. 51, illustrated
John Wilmerding, The Genius of American Painting, New York, 1973, p. 226, illustrated
Gail Levin, "The Tradition of the Heroic Figure in Synchromist Abstractions," Arts Magazine, vol. 51, no. 10, June 1977, p. 42, fig. 19, illustrated
Exhibited
Paris, La Galerie Arnaud, MacDonald-Wright, 1956, no. 19
Detroit, 1957-1958, pp. 60-61, no. 64, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, The Pinacotheca Gallery (Rose Fried), Stanton MacDonald-Wright, 1955
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, American Paintings and Drawings, 1962, p. 11, no. 178
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The New Tradition-Modern Americans Before 1940, 1963, pp. 25, 62, no. 67, illustrated in the catalogue
Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1914: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 1964, p. 89, no. 136
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Synchromism and Color Principles in American Painting: 1910-1930, 1965, pp. 27, 51, no. 34 (as Arm Organization)
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Gauguin and Decorative Style, 1966
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Roots of Abstract Art in America, 1910-1930, 1965-1966, no. 99
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, The Art of Stanton MacDonald-Wright, 1967, p. 27, no. 5
Los Angeles, The U.C.L.A. Art Galleries, Stanton MacDonald-Wright: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1911-1970, 1970, no. 6, illustrated in the catalogue
Detroit, 1972-1973
New York, 1973-1974, pp. 130-131, no. 64, illustrated in the catalogue New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Synchromism and American Color Abstraction, 1910-1925, 1978, p. 140, pl. 11, illustrated in the catalogue
Philadelphia, 1980-1981, p. 137, no. 124, illustrated in the catalogue
Detroit, 1957-1958, pp. 60-61, no. 64, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, The Pinacotheca Gallery (Rose Fried), Stanton MacDonald-Wright, 1955
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, American Paintings and Drawings, 1962, p. 11, no. 178
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The New Tradition-Modern Americans Before 1940, 1963, pp. 25, 62, no. 67, illustrated in the catalogue
Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1914: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 1964, p. 89, no. 136
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Synchromism and Color Principles in American Painting: 1910-1930, 1965, pp. 27, 51, no. 34 (as Arm Organization)
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Gauguin and Decorative Style, 1966
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Roots of Abstract Art in America, 1910-1930, 1965-1966, no. 99
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, The Art of Stanton MacDonald-Wright, 1967, p. 27, no. 5
Los Angeles, The U.C.L.A. Art Galleries, Stanton MacDonald-Wright: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1911-1970, 1970, no. 6, illustrated in the catalogue
Detroit, 1972-1973
New York, 1973-1974, pp. 130-131, no. 64, illustrated in the catalogue New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Synchromism and American Color Abstraction, 1910-1925, 1978, p. 140, pl. 11, illustrated in the catalogue
Philadelphia, 1980-1981, p. 137, no. 124, illustrated in the catalogue