MORGAN RUSSELL

Morgan Russell was born in 1886 in New York. He is the founder-with  Stanton Macdonald-Wright- of the movement Synchromism. He studied architecture and sculpture.Returning to Paris in 1909 he studied at Matisse’s art school. After meeting Stanton Macdonald-Wright in 1911, the two began developing theories about color and its relationship to pattern. With Macdonald-Wright, he co-founded the Synchromist movement in 1912. He exhibited his paintings at the Salon des Indépendants and  famous New York Armory Show. After spending nearly forty years as artist in France from 1909 until 1946, Russell retired to the United States. After suffering two strokes, he died at age 67 near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1953.