Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Cruel Heat, My Mind in a Whirl, I Listen to the Thunder Rumble1966-1967

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Artist or Maker: Stanton Macdonald-Wright
United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890-1973
Title: Cruel Heat, My Mind in a Whirl, I Listen to the Thunder Rumble
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1966-1967
Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: Sheet: 17 7/8 × 21 3/8 in. (45.4 × 54.29 cm) Image: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.64 × 50.48 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Modernage Photography Service, Inc.
Accession Number: M.85.215.17
Classification: Prints
Collecting Area: Prints and Drawings
Curatorial Notes: From the exhibition Stanton Macdonald-Wright and His Circle at LACMA
January 29-May 28, 2003

When Macdonald-Wright was seventy-five years old, he created twenty color woodblock prints of Haiga, an image illustrating a haiku (seventeen syllable, three-line poems that do not rhyme). The portfolio illustrates haiku by some of Japan's most revered poets: Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, Chiyoni, and Hokushi. Each Haiga's title is a translation of the haiku. The Haiga portfolio prints affirmed one of the fundamental precepts of Synchromism: art must draw inspiration from both past and present to be vital and enduring. The Haiga images also testify to Macdonald-Wright's unceasing commitment to bridging East and West.
Selected Bibliography: South, Will. Color, Myth, And Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism. Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2001.
Copyright: © The Stanton and Jean Macdonald-Wright Estate

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Stanton Macdonald-Wright
United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890-1973
Title: Cruel Heat, My Mind in a Whirl, I Listen to the Thunder Rumble
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1966-1967
Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: Sheet: 17 7/8 × 21 3/8 in. (45.4 × 54.29 cm) Image: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.64 × 50.48 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Modernage Photography Service, Inc.
Accession Number: M.85.215.17
Classification: Prints
Collecting Area: Prints and Drawings
Curatorial Notes: From the exhibition Stanton Macdonald-Wright and His Circle at LACMA
January 29-May 28, 2003

When Macdonald-Wright was seventy-five years old, he created twenty color woodblock prints of Haiga, an image illustrating a haiku (seventeen syllable, three-line poems that do not rhyme). The portfolio illustrates haiku by some of Japan's most revered poets: Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, Chiyoni, and Hokushi. Each Haiga's title is a translation of the haiku. The Haiga portfolio prints affirmed one of the fundamental precepts of Synchromism: art must draw inspiration from both past and present to be vital and enduring. The Haiga images also testify to Macdonald-Wright's unceasing commitment to bridging East and West.
Selected Bibliography: South, Will. Color, Myth, And Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism. Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2001.