1910
oil
paperboard
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1910 oil by Morgan Russell, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see three apples on a table—one red, one green, one yellow—floating against a dark, smudgy background. Russell painted this just before he helped start Synchromism, a style that used color like music. The apples aren’t realistic; their edges blur into the shadows, almost like they’re glowing. It’s a quiet experiment, not a finished statement. If you like how color feels alive here, look up the technique called *impasto*.
Morgan Russell was a modern American artist. With Stanton Macdonald-Wright, he was the founder of Synchromism, a provocative style of abstract painting that dates from 1912 to the 1920s. Russell's "synchromies," which…
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