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accession number: 2009.269
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Rock at Sea, 1920–1922. Raymond Jonson (American, 1891–1982). Oil on canvas; unframed: 88.9 x 104.2 cm (35 x 41 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2009.269
title: Rock at Sea
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creation date: 1920–1922
creation date earliest: 1920
creation date latest: 1922
current location: 226A American Modern
creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Raymond Jonson (American, 1891–1982) - artist
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measurements: Unframed: 88.9 x 104.2 cm (35 x 41 in.)
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inscription: Signed lower right inscribed into wet paint: Raymond Jonson 19 (CJ) 22; (written on the reverse of the backing board): Raymond Jonson, Rock at Sea 1922, Ogunguit, Maine; Oct. 1945 - varnished Taylor's Dammar Dull + Webers
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Higher States: Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries
opening date: 2017-02-04T05:00:00
Higher States: Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Canada (organizer) (February 4-September 4, 2017); Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada (October 7, 2017-January 7, 2018).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Exhibition of Paintings by Raymond Jonson. Omaha Society of Fine Arts, Public Library Galleries, Omaha (March 24-April 20, 1924).', 'opening_date': '1924-03-24T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'An Exhibit of Paintings by Raymond Jonson. Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City (May 1-May 31, 1924).', 'opening_date': '1924-05-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
The artist
date: 1922-1978
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Edward and Bettie Moran, Alameda, NM
date: 1978-2002
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(Bob Copland, Santa Fe, NM)
date: 2002
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Private collector, ME
date: 2002-by 2008
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(Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, NY)
date: by 2008-2009
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2009-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Exhibition of Paintings by Raymond Jonson: March 24 to April 20, 1924. Omaha: Omaha Society of Fine Arts, 1924.
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"Museum Notes." The Evening Bee: Omaha (Omaha, NE), March 28, 1924.
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An Exhibit of Paintings by Raymond Jonson. Kansas City: The Kansas City Art Institute, 1924.
page number: Mentioned: p. 3
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"Acquisitions Highlights." Cleveland Art 49 (November 2009).
page number: Mentioned: p. 11; Reproduced: p. 11
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Mann, Griffith C. "Acquisitions 2009." Cleveland Art 50 (March/April 2010).
page number: Mentioned: p. 17-18; Reproduced: p. 17
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Litt, Steven. "Close Up: Painter's Interest in Abstraction Leaves Him Teetering at the Edge," The Plain Dealer, February 12, 2012.
page number: Mentioned: E5; Reproduced: E5
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Nasgaard, Roald, Gwendolyn Owens, and Lawren Harris. Higher States: Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries. Kleinburg, Ontario: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2017.
page number: Mentioned: p. 94; Reproduced: p. 14-15
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Hartel, Herbert R. Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting. New York and London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
page number: Mentioned: p. 36-38; Reproduced: p. 37
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Marshall, Jennifer Jane. "Routes to Modernism: 1913-1943." In Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now. Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino, editors. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
page number: Reproduced; p. 64
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Raymond Jonson Papers, 1910-1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Microfilm.
page number: Mentioned: RJ-8, frames 6198-6200, RJ-10, frame 7122
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