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Rock at Sea

1920–1922

Raymond Jonson

(American, 1891–1982)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Unframed: 88.9 x 104.2 cm (35 x 41 in.)
Credit Line
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2009.269
Public Domain
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Location
226A American Modern
Print
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Did You Know?

Jonson admired this composition, recycling it years later for a mountainous New Mexico landscape painting.

Description

The radically stylized tendencies in Rock at Sea were motivated by Jonson’s earlier work as an avant-garde scenic and lighting designer for the esteemed Chicago Little Theatre. Inspired by the jagged coast of Ogunquit, Maine, the painting’s visionary rendering of nature embodies the artist’s long-standing interest in communicating mystical concepts. Later, Jonson would move to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and co-found the Transcendental Painting Group, an association of artists dedicated to expressing the imaginative and spiritual realms through abstract art.
Oil painting in muted green and blue tones with a rock structure rising in a series of blue outlined rocks with ombre dark green, blue, and pink coloring. Bubbly blue, teal, and light purple clouds rise in the upper left and lower right corners. A muted lime green sky shows through the background. The painting has been created with controlled, layered strokes, the paint reflecting light and giving the scene a glittering effect.

Rock at Sea

1920–1922

Raymond Jonson

(American, 1891–1982)
America

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