Stony River Rippling, Lightning Flickering

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 number2016.14.2

SignedLower left, blue ink: “Stanton”

InscribedLower left, blue ink: “No 14 28/50 – Issa – 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

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DescriptionThe horizontally oriented print is composed primarily of polygons of various sizes in several solid colors: amethyst, grass green, light gray, cornflower blue, powder blue, teal, yellow-green, pink, and royal blue. Two major areas of curvilinear forms are incorporated into the field of polygons. Within and below an amethyst-colored polygon at the upper left is a light gray and white cloud-like shape. Below and to the right of that shape are several lightning-like zig-zag polygons in yellow-green, white, powder blue and royal blue. The second major area of curvilinear forms is in the middle of the bottom third of the image. One green form matches the curves of a gray form surrounding it. A curving pink form is also within that gray area. Nearby are narrow, curving areas of royal blue and yellow-green. Dots of the royal blue and a teal color are scattered over this group of forms, and there is a cluster of smaller, fainter dots above them, near the center of the picture. Spreading upwards and to the left of the curvilinear group are a number of short, narrow, and repetitive curved lines in white and blue. There is a similar group of larger, yellow-green curves in the bottom right corner.Exhibition History

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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