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Haiga Portfolio

Slow days piling up, how distant they seem, these past times

1966–67
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(American, 1890–1973)
(American, 1927–2007)
America
color woodcut
Image: 40.5 x 50.7 cm (15 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.); Sheet: 45.4 x 54.4 cm (17 7/8 x 21 7/16 in.)
Gift of the Estate of Stanton and Jean Macdonald-Wright 2021.152.13
Edition: edition of 50
Location: not on view
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The artist wrote of the works in this portfolio: “I have attempted to pictorialize these haiku psychologically and thus complete the verses by making the illustrations as modern as the verses will always remain.”

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Modernist painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright developed the Haiga portfolio out of his admiration for haiga, the traditional art of haiku illustration. Produced in Japan using traditional Japanese printmaking technique (ukiyo-e), the artist challenged the typically minimalist, black and white approach to haiku illustration. While many of the works in the portfolio employ the lively colors and patterns of Synchromism—an art movement MacDonald-Wright founded in 1910 seeking to apply color theory to music and rhythm—others are more contemplative, while still retaining a connection to abstract modernist optics.
Slow days piling up, how distant they seem, these past times

Slow days piling up, how distant they seem, these past times

1966–67

Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Clifton Karhu

(American, 1890–1973), (American, 1927–2007)
America

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