id: 167456 accession number: 2009.269 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.269 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:16.880000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1920–1922 creation date earliest: 1920 creation date latest: 1922 current location: 226A American Modern creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Raymond Jonson (American, 1891–1982) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 88.9 x 104.2 cm (35 x 41 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: 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 translation: remark: --- 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). --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE The artist date: 1922-1978 footnotes: citations: Edward and Bettie Moran, Alameda, NM date: 1978-2002 footnotes: citations: (Bob Copland, Santa Fe, NM) date: 2002 footnotes: citations: Private collector, ME date: 2002-by 2008 footnotes: citations: (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, NY) date: by 2008-2009 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2009- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Exhibition of Paintings by Raymond Jonson: March 24 to April 20, 1924. Omaha: Omaha Society of Fine Arts, 1924. page number: url: "Museum Notes." The Evening Bee: Omaha (Omaha, NE), March 28, 1924. page number: url: An Exhibit of Paintings by Raymond Jonson. Kansas City: The Kansas City Art Institute, 1924. page number: Mentioned: p. 3 url: "Acquisitions Highlights." Cleveland Art 49 (November 2009). page number: Mentioned: p. 11; Reproduced: p. 11 url: Mann, Griffith C. "Acquisitions 2009." Cleveland Art 50 (March/April 2010). page number: Mentioned: p. 17-18; Reproduced: p. 17 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Raymond Jonson Papers, 1910-1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Microfilm. page number: Mentioned: RJ-8, frames 6198-6200, RJ-10, frame 7122 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.269/2009.269_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.269/2009.269_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.269/2009.269_full.tif