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Portfolio TitleHaiga

Artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright (American, 1890 - 1973)

Printer Clifton Karhu (American, 1927 - 2007)

Date1965-1967

MediumWoodcut on mulberry 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 number2016.14.3

SignedLower left, blue ink: “Stanton”

InscribedLower left, blue ink: “No 20 28/50 – Hokushi – 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 features a large mass of rounded, curving forms in several colors on a light blue background. At the center is a narrow, zig-zag black band in the middle of a broader, royal blue band of similar shape, both curving diagonally downward toward the right. There are additional black and royal blue forms in the mass, as well as forms in red, orange, pea green, pistachio green and white.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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