Stanton Macdonald-Wright Woodblock, Mid 20th Century
Item Details
Stanton MacDonald-Wright (American, 1890 – 1973)
Departing Spring Hesitates in the late cherry blossoms, 1966 – 67
Woodblock on paper
Signed and inscribed to lower margin
Artist’s proof
From the artist’s series Haiga Portfolio
Stanton Macdonald-Wright, an American Modernist painter known for developing a style called Synchronism with Morgan Rusell, was born in 1890 in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1890. His family was affluent enough to allow for art lessons beginning at age five. At sixteen, after a short time working at sea against his family’s wishes, he traveled to Paris to study art at the Sorbonne and the Beaux Arts, Colarossi and Julian Academies. He returned to New York and then eventually settled in Los Angeles. He worked as a regional director for the WPA during the depression, and later taught at the University of California at Los Angeles. Over time his style shifted from the Synchronism that focused on creating form though color, to a more Orientalist style, and regularly spent time in Japan.
Macdonald-Wright’s work resides in the collections of major institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum, New York; the Orange County Museum, the San Diego Museum, the Oakland Museum, and the Pasadena Art Institute in California, and more.
Condition
- light, even toning across sheet; wear, foxing and discolorations to matting.
Dimensions
- image measures 16″ × 20″.
Item #
ITMG384451