Color Form Synchromy (Eidos)
1922 · Oil on canvas
14 1/2 x 10 5/8" (36.8 x 27 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Morgan Russell
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Gifts of Drawing
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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20 Gifts in Honor of Myron Orlofsky
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978–1979
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Morgan Russell: Synchromist Studies, 1910�1922
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1952
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Morgan Russell was an American abstract painter and a co-founder of Synchronism, an early twentieth-century movement emphasizing the kinship between color relationships and musical harmony. Working primarily in oil on canvas, Russell developed a chromatic abstraction that treated hue and value as independent compositional forces rather than descriptors of form. His systematically orchestrated palettes and large-scale compositions positioned color itself as the primary subject, influencing the development of abstract art in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s.
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