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Abstraction on Spectrum Organization by Stanton MacDonald Wright

Stanton Macdonald-Wright, (born July 8, 1890, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.—died August 22, 1973, Pacific Palisades, California), painter and teacher who, with Morgan Russell, founded the movement known as Synchromism about 1912. Synchromism proclaimed colour to be the basis of expression in painting, and, although the movement was short-lived, it proved to be the first abstract art movement developed by American artists.

In 1907, after two years at the Los Angeles Art Students League, Macdonald-Wright went to Paris, where he studied the colour theory of the optical scientists Michel-Eugène Chevreul, Hermann von Helmholtz, and Ogdon Rood. He was also influenced by the art of Paul Cézanne and the abstractions of the Cubist painters.

The first Synchromist exhibition was held in Munich, Germany, in June 1913 and featured the work of Macdonald-Wright and Russell. In his early works, Macdonald-...