Watercolor No. 26
Type:Other
Year:1942
Size:22.00" x 30.00"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
PROVENANCE Peyton Wright, Santa Fe
Raymond Jonson ART FOR SALE
1891 Chariton, Iowa - 1982 Albuquerque, New Mexico. Known for: Geometric views-non objective and figure painting.
Raymond Jonson is best known as the founder of the Transcendental Painters Group in Santa Fe, where he settled in 1924 and painted works that were pure abstraction. Before this time, he was in... Read full biography
Raymond Jonson is best known as the founder of the Transcendental Painters Group in Santa Fe, where he settled in 1924 and painted works that were pure abstraction. Before this time, he was in Chicago for fourteen years and there had many formative experiences that led to his later career. His... Read full biography
Raymond Jonson is best known as the founder of the Transcendental Painters Group in Santa Fe, where he settled in 1924 and painted works that were pure abstraction. Before this time, he was in Chicago for fourteen years and there had many formative experiences that led to his later career. His mentor in Chicago was modernist B.J.O. Nordfeldt, and he was much affected by the Armory Show Exhibition of 1913 when it traveled to Chicago. For five years, Jonson was at the city's avant-garde Little... Read full biography
Raymond Jonson is best known as the founder of the Transcendental Painters Group in Santa Fe, where he settled in 1924 and painted works that were pure abstraction. Before this time, he was in Chicago for fourteen years and there had many formative experiences that led to his later career. His mentor in Chicago was modernist B.J.O. Nordfeldt, and he was much affected by the Armory Show Exhibition of 1913 when it traveled to Chicago. For five years, Jonson was at the city's avant-garde Little Theatre, where he was a set and lighting designer. However, he left Chicago to avoid "crowds, dirt, and chaos of the city for peace, serenity and closeness to nature that he could find in Santa Fe." . Source:. Elizabeth Kennedy, Chicago Modern,... Read full biography
Raymond Jonson is best known as the founder of the Transcendental Painters Group in Santa Fe, where he settled in 1924 and painted works that were pure abstraction. Before this time, he was in Chicago for fourteen years and there had many formative experiences that led to his later career. His mentor in Chicago was modernist B.J.O. Nordfeldt, and he was much affected by the Armory Show Exhibition of 1913 when it traveled to Chicago. For five years, Jonson was at the city's avant-garde Little Theatre, where he was a set and lighting designer. However, he left Chicago to avoid "crowds, dirt, and chaos of the city for peace, serenity and closeness to nature that he could find in Santa Fe." . Source:. Elizabeth Kennedy, Chicago Modern, 1893-1945... Read full biography
Raymond Jonson - Art for Sale (7 available)
Improvisation - Watercolor No. 7
Type:Painting
Year:1939
Size:20.00" x 28.00"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Lower Right
New Mexico Landscape
Type:Drawing
Year:1930
Size:11.00" x 14.75"
Medium:Charcoal
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
Ref: #21661
Watercolor No. 17
Type:Painting
Year:1950
Size:21.00" x 27.25"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Unsigned
Edition:Unique
Notes:
A bold, transcendental painting from the mid-century by Raymond Jonson. From a private European collection.
Watercolor No. 12, 1943
Type:Painting
Year:1943
Size:30.00" x 22.00"
Medium:Mixed Media
Signed:Verso
Notes:
Abstraction with circular motifs. titled, dated, signed and inscribed verso. details of the medium and materials used in the composition by the artist.
Casein Tempera No. 1
Type:Painting
Year:1941
Size:30.00" x 22.00"
Medium:Tempera
Signed:Signed
Watercolor No. 10
Type:Other
Year:1946
Size:22.00" x 35.00"
Medium:Airbrush
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
PROVENANCE Artist Princeton Gallery of Fine Art, NJ Gary Snyder Fine Art, NY Private Collection, NY EXHIBITED Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY, Modern American Art 1930 – 1975, October 31 – December 20, 2003