Morgan Russell - Hardcover

Kushner, Marilyn S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555950469 ISBN 13: 9781555950460

Publisher: Distributed in the U.S., its territories and possessions ... by Rizzoli International Publications, 1990

Synopsis

Book by Kushner, Marilyn S.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Aided by monthly stipends from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Morgan Russell (1886-1953), a New Yorker working in Paris, pioneered the short-lived Synchromistok movement with his friend Stanton Macdonald-Wright. Their swirling discs of color--exploding spectrums abuzz with rhythm and movement--blazed an indelible impression on modernist abstraction. But Russell, a pupil of Matisse, finally reached an impasse with his "Synchromies." He then sought inspiration in religion and classical music, but eventually retreated to a farm in the French countryside and shifted to a figurative style. His female nudes are mythic goddesses; his male nudes, inspired by heroic figures from Leonardo and Titian, are idiosyncratic, as are the later monumental figural and religious compositions. Kushner, a curator at the Montclair Art Museum, N.J., has penned an eye-opening monograph, scanning all facets of an artist who deserves to be better known.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Distributed in the U.S., its territories and possessions ... by Rizzoli International Publications
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1555950469
• ISBN 13: 9781555950460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 221