LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

22.20 in. (56.40 cm.) (height) by 30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed S. Macdonald-Wright and dated 1917 (lower right)

Exhibited:

1911-1970, 1970, no. 8 New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Houston, Texas, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Syracuse, New York, Everson Museum of Art; Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Synchromism and American Color Abstraction, 1910-1925, January 1978-March 1979, no. 114, illustrated Tulsa, Oklahoma, Philbrook Art Center; Oakland, California, Oakland Museum; Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art; New York, National Academy of Design, Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life, 1801-1939, 1981, p. 240, illustrated in color pl. 27, p. 171 Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, American Modernism: The Shein Collection, May 2010-January 2011, no. 10, pp. 4, 68, 70-71, 124, 139-40, illustrated in color p. 69

Literature:

DebraBricker Balken, "Dual Advocacy," Hali, Summer 2013, illustrated in color p. 68

Provenance:

Stendahl Art Gallery, Los Angeles Joseph H. Hazen, by 1967 Cynthia Polsky, New York Acquired by the present owner in 2006 Exhibited New York, Charles Daniel Gallery, 1918, no. 8 (as Still Life Synchromy in Red) Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Retrospective Showing of the Work of Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 1956, no. 5 Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, The Art of Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 1967, no. 12, p. 28 Los Angeles, California, The UCLA Art Galleries and the Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, A Retrospective