Flight of the Butterfly No. 1 (Vol de Papillon)
Artist
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
American, 1890–1973
Date1955
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Frame: 38 x 48 1/4 in. (96.5 x 122.6 cm)
Frame: 38 x 48 1/4 in. (96.5 x 122.6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of Fannie and Alan Leslie
Object number2006.21.10
On View
Not on view"Le mostre del Solleone," Il Giornato del Mezzogiorno (Rome), July 24, 1958, in Macdonald-Wright scrapbooks, roll LA5, frame 97, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Michel Seuphor (Fernand Berkelaers), Abstract Painting: Fifty Years of Accomplishment, from Kandinsky to the Present (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1961), illus. (color) pl. 327.
The Art of Stanton Macdonald-Wright (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: Published for the National Collection of Fine Art by the Smithsonian Press, 1967), cat. no. 59.
Stanton Macdonald-Wright: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1911-1970 (exhibition catalogue) (Los Angeles: UCLA Art Galleries, 1970), cat. no. 31.
Will South, et al, Color, Myth, and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2001), cat. no. 47, illus. (color), fig. 119.
John Coffey, "Modern American Paintings from the Bequest of Fannie and Alan Leslie," in Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (Winter 2008), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 8.
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum, "A Retrospective Showing of the Work of Stanton Macdonald-Wright," January 19-February 19, 1956, no. 78 (as Flight of the Butterfly).
Paris, Galerie Arnaud, "Macdonald-Wright," April 12-25, 1956, no. 14 (as Vol de Papillon).
Rome, Galleria Schneider, "Macdonald-Wright," July 18-August 1958, no. 12 (as Vol de Papillon).
Washington, DC, National Collection of Fine Arts, "The Art of Stanton Macdonald-Wright," May 4-June 18, 1967, no. 59.
Los Angeles, CA, The UCLA Art Galleries/The Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, "Stanton Macdonald-Wright: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1911-1970," 16 November-20 December 1970, no. 31.
San Francisco, CA, Zara Gallery, "Stanton Macdonald-Wright: Paintings from the 1950s," February 20-March 25, 1980.
San Francisco, Joseph Chowning Gallery, "Stanton Macdonald-Wright: Paintings from Seven Decades, 1903-1973," 22 April 22-30 May 30 1983.
Oakland, CA, Oakland Museum, extended loan, June 1983-March 1995.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Color, Myth, and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism," March 4-July 3, 2001; Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 5-October 29, 2001; Houston, TX, Museum of Fine Arts, December 2, 2001-February 24, 2002, no. 47, (as Vol de Papillon (Flight of the Butterfly)), illus. (color) fig. 119.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Modern American Paintings from the Bequest of Fannie and Alan Leslie,” November 25, 2007–September 6, 2009.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–October 30, 2023. Object Rights Statement
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