Background
Macdonald-Wright, Stanton was born on July 8, 1890 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Son of Archibald Devonporte and Annie (Van Vranken) Wright.
Macdonald-Wright, Stanton was born on July 8, 1890 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Son of Archibald Devonporte and Annie (Van Vranken) Wright.
Studied with private tutors, Paris. Student Sorbonne, Academie Colorossi, Ecole des Beaux Arts (all Paris).
One of founders Synchromism art movement, 1913. Director Art Student’s League, Los Angeles, 1922-1930. Study Chinese and Japanese calligraphy and aesthetics, 1933-1935.
Director Works Progress Administrn. project in art Southern California, 1935-1942.
Study Oriental art Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan, 1937-1938. Associate professor Oriental art University of California, Los Angeles, 1942-1950, professor, 1950-1954.
Fulbright exchange professor to Japan, 1952-1953. Exhibitions Salon d’ Automne, Paris, 1910, Salon des Independents, Paris, 1912, others in Munich, Milan, London, Warsaw, New York City, 1913, Palace Chevalier de la Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur’Honneur’Honneur, San Francisco, Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, Museum Science, History and Art, Los Angeles, Duveen-Graham Gallery, Rose Fried Gallery, New York City, Galerie Arnaud, Paris.
Retrospective exhibition Smithsonian Institution, 1967.
Painter murals Santa Monica Public Library, petrachrome murals Santa Monica City Hall, mosaics mural Santa Monica High School, 1935-1937. Teacher Oriental art history Scripps College, summer 1946. Lecturer U. Hawaii, summer 1949, also Kyoiku Dai Goku and Gendai Bijutsukan, Tokyo, 1952-1953.
Retrospective exhibition, University of California, Los Angeles, 1970.
Works in permanent collections Museum Modern Art, New York City, Brooklyn Museum Art, Philadelphia Museum Art, University of Chicago, Whitney Museum, Metropolitan Museum, New York City, others Address: Pacific Palisades, California
Married Jean Louise Sutton, April.