Watercolor No. 15, 1941
Artist
Raymond Jonson
(American, 1891 - 1982)
DateMay 14, 1941
Mediumwatercolor on Whatman board
DimensionsImage: 31 × 24 in. (78.7 × 61 cm)
Frame: 36 1/2 × 29 3/8 × 1 5/8 in. (92.7 × 74.6 × 4.1 cm)
Frame: 36 1/2 × 29 3/8 × 1 5/8 in. (92.7 × 74.6 × 4.1 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of MGW and CJW 2007 Trust, 2017
Object number2017.1
DescriptionGeometric abstract, shapes, squares, bands, rectangles and cris-crossing images- purple and blue background with pink, and mauve colors. Overlapping fields of dull purple, pink, and blue. Two slightly arched cylindrical pink forms intersect at the bottom of the composition and extend across the surface of the foreground. The rest of the space is filled with intersecting vertical and horizontal overlapping mauve planes that recede towards a light blue rectangle near right center of the composition.eMuseum Notes
Jonson
was an important figure in the development of modern art in New Mexico, as both
an artist and gallery director. He lived and worked in Santa Fe from 1924 to
1950 when he moved to Albuquerque to establish the Joonson Gallery. He was also
significant for his role as an educator, joining the University of New Mexico
arts faculty in 1934. Though his early work consisted of stylized views of the
new Mexican landscape, around 1940 he becan to work purly in abstract forms.
Watercolor No. 15 is an early example of his nonfigurative work.
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