Rock at Sea

1920–1922
(American, 1891–1982)
Unframed: 88.9 x 104.2 cm (35 x 41 in.)
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Jonson admired this composition, recycling it years later for a mountainous New Mexico landscape painting.

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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.
Rock at Sea

Rock at Sea

1920–1922

Raymond Jonson

(American, 1891–1982)
America, 20th century

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