Russell, Morgan, 1886-1953
Painter, Sculptor
Size: 40 Items
Summary: The collection of Morgan Russell sketches and notes measures 40 items and includes preliminary sketches, drawings and notes by Morgan Russell that he used to develop the abstract art form Synchromism. The documents date from circa 1912-1920.
Morgan Russell (1886-1953) was a painter and sculptor in New York City. He studied at the Art Students League and the New York School of Art with James Earle Fraser, Andrew Dasburg and Robert Henri from 1906 to 1907, before settling in Paris in 1909 where he remained for almost forty years. After meeting Stanton Macdonald-Wright in 1911, he became interested in Synchromism and studied with Canadian color theorist Ernest Tudor-Hart. In 1913 Russell produced the first abstract Synchromies and in 1917 developed a series of Synchromies entitled EIDOS.
Donated in 2021 by William C. Agee, who received the material from Russell's step daughter, Mrs. Walter Joyce.
Collection materials are in English and French.
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