Synchromy No. 3

Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Although this abstract composition bears many traces of European Cubism—angular shapes, fragmented forms, and multiple perspectives—it asserts the primacy of color as a key component of space and form. In 1912 Stanton Macdonald-Wright, together with the painter Morgan Russell, coined the term Synchromism to describe abstract compositions primarily concerned with the rhythmic use of color—a phenomenon they likened to a symphony’s use of sound. Synchromism was one of many diverse approaches to abstraction that flourished in the Americas and Europe in the 1910s, radically departing from traditional vocabularies of painting and sculpture.
Caption
Stanton Macdonald-Wright American, 1890–1973. Synchromy No. 3, 1917. Oil on canvas, 39 x 38 in. (99.1 x 96.5 cm) frame: 43 x 42 x 2 in. (109.2 x 106.7 x 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal, 1992.11.24. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1992.11.24_SL1.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Synchromy No. 3
Date
1917
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
39 x 38 in. (99.1 x 96.5 cm) frame: 43 x 42 x 2 in. (109.2 x 106.7 x 5.1 cm)
Signatures
Signed upper right: "S. Macdonald Wright / 1917"
Credit Line
Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal
Accession Number
1992.11.24
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
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