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
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Books & Publications (84)
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Southwest Art History Conference Abstracts, 1996-2013
2014
Fahlman, Betsy (Editor)
217 pages (color)
Emil James Bisttram: Encaustic Compositions, 1936-1947: A Pictorial Monograph with Essays
2013
Shaull, Warren, Larry Botigheimer and James Parsons
103 pages (color)
Light, Landscape and the Creative Quest: Early Artists of Santa Fe
2012
Lewandowski, Stacia
272 pages (color)
Emil Bisttram: American Painter: Dynamic Symetry, Theosophy, Swendenborgian, 2 Volumes
2010
Pasquine, Ruth
692 pages
Santa Fe Art Colony: Gerald Peters Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Udall, Sharyn R; Julie Schimmel (Introduction)
127 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Chicago Modern 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Kennedy, Elizabeth (Editor)
176 pages (color)
Nicholas and Helena Roerich: The Spiritual Journey of Two Great Artists and Peacemakers
2003
Drayer, Ruth A.
357 pages (color)
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002
Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)
352 pages (color)
America Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Spanierman Gallery
56 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Majesty of the Grand Canyon 150 Years in Art
1998
Kinsey, Joni Louise
159 pages (color)
Vision and Spirit: The Transcendental Painting Group (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Blankenship, Tiska
71 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
Canyon de Chelly 100 Years of Painting and Photography
1996
Hagerty, Donald J
120 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
Community of Creativity A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Storr, Robert/Tom Wolf
103 pages (color)
Contested Terrain Myth and Meaning in Southwest Art
1996
Udall, Sharyn R
180 pages (color)
Treasures on New Mexico Trails Discover New Deal Art and Architecture
1995
Flynn, Kathryn A
320 pages (color)
Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde
1995
Rushing, W Jackson
250 pages (color)
Agnes Pelton: Poet of Nature (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Zakian, Michael
128 pages (color)
Santa Fe Art
1993
Ellis, Simone
112 pages (color)
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Adams, Henry (others)
495 pages (color)
Transforming the Western Image in 20th Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Hough, Katherine
111 pages (color)
Theme & Improvisation Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Levin, Gail/Marianne Lorenz
236 pages
Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection
1992
Museum of Fine Arts
167 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
Printmaking in New Mexico 1880-1990
1991
Adams, Clinton
167 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
The Old Guard and Avant-Garde Modernism in Chicago 1910-1940
1990
Prince, Sue Ann
304 pages (color)
American Modernism
1989
Fahlman, Betsy
80 pages (color)
Modernist Themes in New Mexico Works by Early Modernist Painters (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Gerald Peters Gallery
56 pages (color)
American Paintings V 1988
1988
Berry-Hill Galleries
180 pages (color)
The Expressionist Landscape North American Modernist Painting 1920-1947 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Birmingham Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
American Works on Paper II (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Spanierman Gallery
144 pages (color)
Capturing the Canyon: Artists in the Grand Canyon
1987
Mitchem, Holly (Essay); Tray Mead (Editor)
42 pages (color)
Santa Fe Art Colony 1900-1942 (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Udall, Sharyn R.
99 pages (color)
Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945 Paths to Taos and Santa Fe
1986
Eldredge, Charles/J Schimmel
218 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Wooden, Howard E
151 pages
The American West The Modern Vision
1984
Broder, Patricia Janis
345 pages (color)
Collecting Phoenix Art Museum, 1957-1984
1984
Phoenix Art Museum
45 pages (color)
Modernist Painting in New Mexico 1913-1935
1984
Udall, Sharyn R
237 pages (color)
The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary
1984
Witt, David L
63 pages
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies Age of The Muses, 1900-1942
1983
Gibson, Arrell Morgan
305 pages
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Lane, John R and Susan Larsen
256 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Santa Fe and Taos 1898-1942 An American Cultural Center
1982
Reeve, Kay Aiken
56 pages
Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935
1981
Davidson, Abraham A
324 pages (color)
Light & Color Images from New Mexico
1981
Museum of Fine Arts
94 pages (color)
Visitors to Arizona 1846-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Ballinger, James K
206 pages (color)
The New Deal in the Southwest: Arizona and New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Bermingham, Peter
67 pages
American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection
1977
Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward)
256 pages (color)
The Art of Raymond Jonson Painter
1976
Garman, Ed
199 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Artists of the Canyons and Caminos, Santa Fe, the Early Years
1976
Robertson, Edna/Sarah Nestor
182 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1976
School of American Research
41 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Picturesque Images from Taos and Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Denver Art Museum
215 pages (color)
Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974
New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art
192 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors
1973
University of Kansas Museum
80 pages
Cubism, Its Impact in the USA 1910-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1967
U of New Mexico Art Museum
64 pages (color)
A Primer of Modern Art
1966
Cheney, Sheldon
392 pages
Raymond Jonson A Retrospective Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Coke, Van Deren/Ed Garman
31 pages
Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942
1963
Coke, Van Deren
168 pages (color)
The Story of Modern Art
1958
Cheney, Sheldon
723 pages (color)
Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956 (Exhibition catalog)
1957
Brooklyn Museum
72 pages
New Mexico Artists New Mexico Artists Series no 3
1952
Ortega, Joaquin
130 pages
Modern Art in America
1939
Cheney, Martha Candler
190 pages
Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years
1939
Ness, Zenobia; Louise Orwig
253 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One