Stanton Macdonald-Wright Auction Prices and Value Guide

Stanton Macdonald-Wright auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 180 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Stanton Macdonald-Wright auction prices: quick answer

Stanton Macdonald-Wright auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Source records
180
Market update
2026-02-06

Stanton Macdonald-Wright market snapshot

Stanton Macdonald-Wright shows solid auction liquidity with 94 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-18.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (29.6% · 16 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (38.9% · 21 sales)
  • $10,000+ (31.5% · 17 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
6
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-18

Artist context

About Stanton Macdonald-Wright

Stanton Macdonald-Wright portrait
Photographs by Paul Thompson for Every Week · Public domain · Source

Born

1890

Died

1973

Nationality

American

Also known as

Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, Stanton MacDonald-Wright

Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890–1973) was an American painter, muralist, and aesthetician closely associated with Synchromism, an early modernist approach built around relationships of color. He is identified as a co-founder of the movement, and museum records preserve several works central to that association. The Museum of Modern Art catalogues Still Life Synchromy from 1913, Synchromy from 1917, and Synchromy in Blue from about 1917–18. These examples show why collectors commonly encounter his name in discussions of American color abstraction and early twentieth-century modernism. His documented output was not limited to individual paintings: MoMA also records a plate contributed to the 1962 publication Futurists, Abstractionists, Dadaists: the Forerunners of the Avant-Garde. Consequently, objects connected with Macdonald-Wright may range from distinctive Synchromist paintings to later prints and collaborative portfolio material, each requiring careful identification of medium, date, and format.

SynchromismAmerican modernismPaintingMuralsPrints and portfolio platesColor-based abstractionStill life

Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings described as Synchromies, including abstract compositions organized through color, as well as still-life-related Synchromist work. Museum records also document prints and portfolio plates, including a contribution to a multi-artist avant-garde publication. Because the recorded formats include both individual works and collaborative portfolio material, the object type and authorship details should be established before auction comparisons are selected.

Market and appraisal context

Market assessment should begin by distinguishing an individual painting from a print, portfolio plate, or collaborative publication. Date also matters to classification: MoMA documents Synchromist paintings from 1913 through about 1918, providing useful reference points for works connected with the artist's early color-based abstraction. A later portfolio contribution has a different context and should not be compared mechanically with a unique painting. The collected sources support using medium, format, date, title, and relationship to documented Synchromist work when selecting comparable records. They do not provide enough major-auction-house or lot-level evidence to justify a price forecast, market trend, scarcity statement, or universal ranking of categories.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Prints and portfolio plates

Value drivers

  1. Medium and format, including the distinction between an individual painting and a portfolio plate
  2. Date and relationship to the artist's documented Synchromist period
  3. Whether the object is an independent work or a contribution to a multi-artist portfolio
  4. Alignment of title, date, and work type with museum-catalogued examples and comparable public auction records

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not include fetched major-auction-house lot descriptions or realized-price excerpts, so it cannot support price bands, price trends, scarcity claims, or price predictions.
  • An appraisal should verify the specific object's authorship, medium, date, and portfolio status rather than infer value from the artist name alone.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Stanton Macdonald-Wright

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Stanton Macdonald-Wright worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

Can Appraisily value my Stanton Macdonald-Wright artwork?

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