Synchromy in Blue

Stanton Macdonald-Wright · c. 1917-18

This is Synchromy in Blue, by Macdonald-Wright, around nineteen seventeen. Colour is organised here by scale and interval rather than by what it describes. Synchromism drew directly on nineteenth-century colour theory and on the analogy with music.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 26 1/4 x 20 1/8" (66.4 x 51.1 cm) · Credit The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Young Man in a Gray Sweater (Jacques Lipchitz), Still Life Synchromy

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

More by Stanton Macdonald-Wright here: Still Life Synchromy