STANTON MACDONALD WRIGHT
Biographical Information
From 1908-1916 Macdonald Wright (1890-1973) lived and studied art in Europe, especially Paris. In 1913 he and fellow American Morgan Russell co-founded Synchromism, an off-shoot of Cubism that considered color as central to art as sound is to music. He spent many years studying East Asian history, culture, and philosophy, eventually writing and lecturing extensively on Oriental aesthetics. From 1935-1942 Macdonald Wright was the California State Director of the Federal Art Project and the technical advisor to seven Western states. Beginning in the early 1950s he divided his time between homes in Kyoto, Japan, and Santa Monica.
Mural Credits
Colonial Spanish: Recreation
Evolution of Writing (photo)
Landing of the Viking in Vinland
Man's Imaginative and Inventive Development
Products of Nature and Inventions of Man
Spanish California
Typical Activities of a Beach and Harbor City (with Albert Henry King, redesigned from an original by Henry Allen Nord)
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