Still Life Synchromy

Stanton Macdonald-Wright · 1913

Before you is Still Life Synchromy, by Stanton Macdonald-Wright, nineteen thirteen. He and Morgan Russell called their method Synchromism — composing with colour the way a composer works with sound. It was among the first American contributions to European abstraction.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 20 x 20" (50.8 x 50.8 cm) · Credit Given anonymously

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Synchromy in Blue, Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, The Passage from Virgin to Bride, The Spring, Bridge, The Kitchen, Untitled (Study for The Inner World)

More by Stanton Macdonald-Wright here: Synchromy in Blue