About the Object
In this all-over composition, faceted planes of color fan out across the canvas. The primary colors mix with shades of orange, violet, and pink. But unlike Study for Synchromy in Blue-Violet, 1912/13 (VF2015.05.09) and A Synchromy 1913/14 (VF2015.05.12), the colors do not bleed or blend; each form is a contained block of color. There is no subject or object, no foreground or background; color is the form and the content.
Additional Information
Morgan Russell and Stanton Macdonald-Wright founded Synchromism (which means “with color”), a movement in which color becomes an independent expressive and formal element, in 1912 and held their first exhibitions in Munich and Paris the following year.
The Artist;
[Rose Fried Gallery, New York, NY];
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Schiff, New York, by 1967;
[Davis & Long Company, New York, NY];
The Ertegun Collection Group, New York;
[Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, NY];
The Michael Scharf Family Collection, 1986-2019;
[Christie’s New York, NY, May 22, 2019, sale no. 17034, lot 23];
New York, NY. M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York. Synchromism and Color Principles in American Painting, 1910-1930, October 12-November 6, 1965, p. 52, no. 47.
New York, NY. Museum of Modern Art. Synchromism and Color Principles in Related American Painting, 1910-1930, January 1967-June 1968.
New York, NY. Whitney Museum of American Art; Houston, Texas. Museum of Fine Arts; Des Moines, IA. Des Moines Art Center; San Francisco, CA. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Syracuse, NY. Everson Museum of Art; Columbus, OH. Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Synchromism and American Color Abstraction, 1910-1925, January 24, 1978-March 24, 1979, p. 143, pl. 91, illustrated.
New York, NY. The Vilcek Foundation. The Synchromists, 2020-2021.
Madrid, Spain. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional. The Synchromists. June 27-November 1, 2022.
New York, NY. Guggenheim New York. Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930. November 8, 2024–March 9, 2025.
Kushner, Marilyn S. Morgan Russell. New York, 1990, pp. 7, 101, no. 80, illustrated.
Agee, William C. et al. The Scharf Collection: A History Revealed. New York, 2018, pp. 29, 35, 181, pl. 16, illustrated.
Dorfman, John. “Over the Rainbow,” Art & Antiques, November 2020, ill. p. 45.
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