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O flying butterfly I feel myself a creature of dust
1966 · color woodcut
Image: 50.4 x 40.5 cm (19 13/16 x 15 15/16 in.); Sheet: 54.4 x 45.5 cm (21 7/16 x 17 15/16 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright
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11
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19
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Ways of Looking
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright was an American modernist painter and theorist who pioneered Synchromism, an abstract movement developed in the early 1910s emphasizing the analogous relationship between color and musical harmony. Working primarily in oil, he created compositions of interlocking planes and prismatic hues intended to evoke pure aesthetic sensation without representational content. His contributions to American abstract art and his writings on color theory significantly influenced the development of non-objective painting in the twentieth century.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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