Raymond Jonson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRaymond Jonson
American painter
Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1891
Place of Birth: Chariton, Iowa, United States
Date of Death: 10-May-1982
Profession: painter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Raymond Jonson
- Raymond Jonson (July 18, 1891 – May 10, 1982), was an American-born Modernist painter known for his paintings of the American Southwest.
- Born Carl Raymond Johnson, he originally signed his paintings C.
- Raymond Johnson, but later used Raymond Jonson, dropping the first initial and reverting to a more traditional spelling of his last name.Jonson organized modernist exhibitions at the Museum of New Mexico.
- He established the Atalaya Art School, teaching art classes, and founded the Transcendental Painting Group in 1938.
- Raymond Jonson established the Jonson Gallery at the University of New Mexico in 1950.
- The gallery later moved to the University of New Mexico Art Museum.
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