Color Form Synchromy (Eidos)
Morgan Russell
American, 1886–1953
1922-23
An oil-on-canvas painting in which Morgan Russell arranges interlocking, jewel-like color planes to make color the primary—and almost musical—organizing principle rather than a tool for depicting objects.
A deep, nearly black ground sets off curved, prism-like forms and bands of saturated reds, blues, greens, yellows, and whites that seem to vibrate, overlap, and rotate across the surface.
A key example of Synchromism, this work helped push American modernism toward pure abstraction by treating color as structure and expression, responding to and diverging from Cubism and Fauvism.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
14 1/2 x 10 5/8" (36.8 x 27 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Mrs. Wendell T. Bush Fund
Accession
21.1951
Palette
Exhibitions
