Stanton Macdonald-Wright

Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1890, Stanton Macdonald-Wright was encouraged in his artistic pursuits from a young age by his father. His first name honored women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and he later hyphenated his last name to avoid confusion with architect Frank Lloyd Wright. After spending his adolescence in Santa Monica, California, Macdonald-Wright moved to Paris at age seventeen with his wife, immersing himself in European art studies at instit…