City Perspectives
Raymond Jonson, City Perspectives, 1932, oil on canvas, Gift of Mr. Arthur H. Johnson, © artist or other rights holder, 78.17
This work is on view.
- Title
City Perspectives
- Artist
- Date
1932
- Medium
oil on canvas
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
47 3/4 in x 37 3/4 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature; date: Jonson 32, brushed, lower right
- Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary Art; American Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Mr. Arthur H. Johnson
- Accession Number
78.17
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
- Location
Raymond Jonson was best known as the founder of the Transcendental Painting Group in Santa Fe, where he settled in 1924 and painted primarily abstract works. He spent his formative years as part of Chicago's avant-garde where he was mentored by Bror Nordfeldt, whose work is also on view. This painting was one of seven canvases that comprise Jonson's last body of representational paintings and exemplifies the movement's manifesto: "to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world, through new concepts of space, color, light and design, to imaginative realms that are idealistic and spiritual." City Perspectives is a rendition of "metropolis-as-machine" and has stylistic ties with the work of Italian Futurists and American Precisionists, echoing their fascination with the Industrial Age.
- Exhibitions
2023 Throughlines: Connections in the Collection Portland Art Museum