Stanton Macdonald-Wright
An Old Pond, a Frog Leaps in the Sound of Water1966-1967

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Title: An Old Pond, a Frog Leaps in the Sound of Water
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1966-1967
Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: Sheet: 21 3/8 × 17 7/8 in. (54.29 × 45.4 cm) Image: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.48 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Modernage Photography Service, Inc.
Accession Number: M.85.215.1
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.

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Title: An Old Pond, a Frog Leaps in the Sound of Water
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1966-1967
Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: Sheet: 21 3/8 × 17 7/8 in. (54.29 × 45.4 cm) Image: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.48 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Modernage Photography Service, Inc.
Accession Number: M.85.215.1
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.