Raymond Jonson papers

Albers, Josef, 1888-1976

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Josef Albers was born on March 19, 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, the only child of Lorenz Albers, a housepainter, and Magdelena (Schumacher) Albers. He attended the Präparanden-Schule in Langenhorst from 1902 to 1905 and then the teachers college in Büren, graduating in 1908. He became an instructor in several Westphalian primary schools. Albers studied at the Royal Art School in Berlin, the Arts and Crafts School (Folkwang School)in Essen, and at the Art Academy in Munich u...

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts.

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Established 1934 under the Treasury Department as the Section of Painting and Sculpture. Name changed to Section of Fine Arts in 1938. In 1939, the Federal Works Agency was established and set up the Public Buildings Administration, which combined the Treasury Department's Public Buildings Branch and the Branch of Public Buildings of the National Park Service. The Section's function was to decorate new federal buildings. Unlike the other New Deal art agencies, it was not a relief project, but aw...

Federal Art Project (N.M.)

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Federal aid art project during the Depression. The Federal Art Project (FAP) fell under the jurisdiction of Federal Project No. 1 of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), established in May 1935 specifically as a work relief program for unemployed artists. Each state and territory had its own programsand were administered aid from the federal government via a local agency. From the description of Photographs of work by FAP artists in New Mexico, 1935-1943....

O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986

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Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, renowned for her contribution to modern art.Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. By the time she graduated from high school in 1905, O’Keeffe had determined to make her way as an artist. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, where she learned the techniques of traditional painting. Th...

Xceron, Jean, 1890-1967

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Painter; New York, N.Y. Born Greece. Came to U.S. at age of fourteen. Worked at Guggenheim Museum. Pioneer of non-objective painting. From the description of Jean Xceron papers, 1931-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565815 ...

Nordfeldt, Bror Julius Olsson, 1878-1955

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Painter, etcher, block printer, engraver, lithographer, watercolorist, teacher; Santa Fe, N.M. and Lambertville, N.J. Born in Tullstorp, Scania, Sweden, and came to the United States in 1891. Taught at the Minneapolis School of Art and the University of Texas. Moved to Lambertville, N.J. in 1937 from Santa Fe, N.M. From the description of Bror Julius Olsson (B.J.O.) Nordfeldt papers, 1909-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122594536 ...

Levy, Beatrice S. (Beatrice Sophia), 1892-1974

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Beatrice Levy was an etcher, engraver, block printer, drawing specialist, and teacher. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago under Ralph Clarkson and with Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She had a studio in Chicago's 57th Street Art Colony. Her work was exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition (1915), the Century of Progress in Chicago (1933-1934), and the New York's World's Fair (1939). Levy was President of the Chicago Society of Artists, Supervisor o...

Bisttram, Emil, 1895-1976

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Painter, mural painter; Taos, N.M. From the description of Emil Bisttram interview, 1963 Oct. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220195759 From the description of Oral history interview with Emil Bisttram, 1963 Oct. 17 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312026206 Painter; Taos, N.M. Was an exponent of Dynamic Symmetry, a painting technique. From the description of Emil J. Bisttram papers, 1902-1982. (Unknown). Worl...

Bloch, Albert

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O'Hara, Eliot, 1890-1969

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Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980

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Art historian and writer; b. 1886; d. 1980. From the description of Sheldon Cheney papers, 1915-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122333445 ...

Jonson Gallery

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de Kooning, Elaine

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Elaine De Kooning, painter and wife of painter Willem de Kooning of New York. From the description of Oral history interview with Elaine de Kooning, 1981 Aug. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646400460 Sculptor; New York City; East Hampton, New York; b. 1918. From the description of Elaine de Kooning scrapbook, [ca. 1960-1963.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78603967 Painter, wife of painter Willem de Kooning; New York. From the descriptio...

Hiler, Hilaire, 1898-1966

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Hilaire Hiler, painter, costume and set designer, muralist, musician, writer and psychologist was born Hiler Harzberg in St. Paul, Minn. Lived in various places in the United States including Santa Fe, N.M.; also lived in Paris, France where he died in 1966. From the description of Papers, 1849-1966; (bulk 1920-1940). (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 33849956 Mural painter, designer, decorator, writer. From the description of Hilaire Hi...

Pelton, Agnes, 1881-1961

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Painter; Cathedral City, Calif. Pelton grew up in New York and established a studio on Long Island before moving west and settling in Cathedral City, Calif. in 1931. Pelton, who exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show, is enjoying a revival of interst in her symbolist work. Her paintings include transcendentals/abstracts, florals, and representational desert landscapes. Pelton was one of the founders of the Transcendental Painting Group formed in New Mexico in 1939. These lett...

Dasburg, Andrew, 1887-1979

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Andrew Dasburg (1887-1979) was a painter from Taos, N.M. From the description of Oral history interview with Andrew Dasburg, 1974 Mar. 26 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595136 ## Use MARC 545 From the guide to the Andrew Dasburg Papers, 1908-1981, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Painter; Taos, N.M. From the description of Andrew Dasburg interview, 1974 Mar. 26 [sound recording]. (Unkn...

Jonson, Raymond, 1891-1982

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Raymond Jonson (1891-1982) was an American modernist painter and teacher. As a young man (1912 to 1917) he was the lighting, stage set, costume and graphics designer for the Chicago Little Theatre, America's first experimental theater, and later founded the Transcendental Painting Group (1938). He organized the Modern Wing at the Museum of New Mexico and taught art classes at his Atalaya Art School and at the University of New Mexico, retiring as Professor Emeritus in 1954. In 1950 he establishe...

Wells, Cady, 1904-1954

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Painter; Santa Fe, N.M. From the description of Cady Wells papers, 1913-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82223563 Wells was a noted artist who spent most of his career in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From the description of Cady Wells collection, 1940-1970. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37497630 Henry Cady Wells was born November 15, 1904 into a wealthy family in Massachusetts. He received a private education, was artistic...