Subjective Time

Painting

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Name/Title

Subjective Time

Entry/Object ID

2011.56

Type of Painting

Easel

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Category

American Art, 1945 to Today

Acquisition

Accession

2011.56

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Crocker Art Museum purchase; George and Bea Gibson Fund, Rose Huckins Memorial Fund, Mort and Marcy Friedman Fund, Stephen F. Melcher and Richard Graves, Joan and Richard F. Gann Fund, Maija Peeples-Bright and Billy D. Bright, MJ Hamilton and David Reed, Barbara and William Hyland, Monterey, California, Nancy Lawrence and Gordon Klein, Marilyn and Dean Park, A.J. and Susana Mollinet Watson, Théa Givens, Ann Kerr, Lois and Ray Perryman, Pam Saltenberger, Nikke Van Derheydt-Sosnick, and David J. Townsend

Made/Created

Artist

Stanton Macdonald-Wright

Date made

1958

Time Period

20th Century

Place

State/Province

California

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Web-Tag-California Artists

Dimensions

Height

72 in

Width

60 in

Height

73 in

Width

61 in

Depth

2 in

Location

Category

Storage

Category

Temporary

Category

Loan

Category

Temporary

Category

Display

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Website Medium

Label

Oil on canvas

General Notes

Note Type

Historical Note

Note

Macdonald-Wright was one of America's leading Modernist painters. In 1912, together with Morgan Russell, he co-founded the painting movement Synchromism, which produced swirling compositions in a rich chromatic palette. For the artist, the word Synchromism means "with color" just as symphony means "with sound." Raised in Southern California, Macdonald-Wright settled in Paris in 1907. He moved to New York in 1915, where he had his first one-man show at Alfred Stieglitz's "291" gallery. In 1919 he permanently resettled in Santa Monica, where he painted and taught.