Cleveland Museum of Art
Rock at Sea
Raymond JonsonLinkedCulture matchlcp-c31398254623
- Date
- 1920–1922
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- America
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 167456
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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. Jonson admired this composition, recycling it years later for a mountainous New Mexico landscape painting.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Provenance
- 1922-1978: The artist | 1978-2002: Edward and Bettie Moran, Alameda, NM | 2002: (Bob Copland, Santa Fe, NM) | 2002-by 2008: Private collector, ME | by 2008-2009: (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, NY) | 2009-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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American Landscape and Coastal PaintingsThese works are 19th-century oil paintings depicting natural landscapes and seascapes from the northeastern United States, particularly coastal New England regions and rocky shores.
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