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Stanton MacDonald-Wright’s Sho Kannon sold for $7,040 at Doyle’s 20^th Century Abstraction/Latin American Art auction on March 13, 2024 in New York City. MacDonald-Wright grew up in Santa Monica, Calif., where his father fostered his artistic development by enrolling him in private art lessons. After a move to Paris and a brief stint in New York, where his art didn’t quite fetch the sales or acclaim that he had hoped for, Macdonald-Wright returned to California.

During his time in Paris, Macdonald-Wright met fellow American artist Morgan Russell, with whom he founded Synchronism, an abstract style of painting that analogized color to music, which was the first American avant-garde movement to receive international attention. He became know...