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Sun Beams Slant on the Riverbank and Cold Rain Falls from a Floating Cloud
Sun Beams Slant on the Riverbank and Cold Rain Falls from a Floating Cloud

Sun Beams Slant on the Riverbank and Cold Rain Falls from a Floating Cloud

Portfolio TitleHaiga
Artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright (American, 1890 - 1973)
Printer Clifton Karhu (American, 1927 - 2007)
Date1966-1967
MediumWoodcut on mulberrry paper
DimensionsImage: 16 × 20 inches (40.64 × 50.8 cm)
Mat: 29 × 33 inches (73.66 × 83.82 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: the Print Deaccession Fund
Object number2016.14.1
SignedLower left, blue ink: “Stanton"
InscribedLower left, blue ink: “No 9 28/50 – Buson – Stanton – Kyoto – 1966–67” Lower center, graphite: “28” (circled)
MarkingsJapanese _inkan_ (Is this a gako-in, used by graphic artists to sign their work?), lower left, red ink
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionCloud-like forms in gray, white, black and blue extend from the left side along approximately three-fourths of the upper edge of the horizontally oriented print. A cluster of long, vertical dashes in white and black is positioned below the cloud forms. The cluster is overlaid on a light blue background and an amorphous horizontal swathe that is mostly teal and includes small areas of pink, purple, orange, and lime green. Below this are large areas of orange and forest green. The light blue background on the left meets an area of mostly white background at a straight diagonal line slanting toward the right. The white area is dotted with four very faint washes of color: two red ones, one yellow, one blue. The bottom part of the picture is covered in areas of black, brown, teal, purple, orange, lime green, and yellow green, with the lighter colors concentrated on the right side, below the white background, and the darker colors on the left, below the blue background.Exhibition History

More research is necessary.

 

The Haiga portfolio or selections from the portfolio (though not these prints from edition 28) were exhibited in:

 

The Art of Stanton Macdonald-Wright, National Collection of the Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washignton, DC, May 4–June 18, 1967, no. 96.

 

Color, Myth, and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, March 4–July ?, 2001 (Selection of 6 prints); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 5–October 29, 2001 (Selection of 6 prints); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 2, 2001–February 24, 2002 (Selection of 6 prints), no. 51.

 

Stanton Macdonald-Wright and His Circle, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 29–May 28, 2003, no cat.

 

Published References

More research is necessary.

 

The Haiga portfolio, though not these prints from edition 28, are published in:

 

David W. Scott, The Art of Stanton Macdonald-Wright, (Washington, DC: Published for the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Press, 1967), 62.

 

Will South, Color, Myth, and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2001), 161, 164–165, 200.

 

 

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