Untitled (Mission San José de Laguna)

1926

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Medium: lithographic crayon on paper
Dimensions: Matted: 40.6 x 51 cm (16 x 20 1/16 in.); Sheet: 29.2 x 41 cm (11 1/2 x 16 1/8 in.)
Collection no.: 2023.27
Attribution: By the artist

About this artwork

Untitled (Mission San José de Laguna) — Raymond Jonson. 1926.

Medium: lithographic crayon on paper. Dimensions: Matted: 40.6 x 51 cm (16 x 20 1/16 in.); Sheet: 29.2 x 41 cm (11 1/2 x 16 1/8 in.).

Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

With roots in Chicago theater design, Raymond Jonson moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1920s, cofounding the Transcendental Painting Group, which was dedicated to expressing imaginative and spiritual realms through abstract art. Jonson made this drawing depicting an adobe church shortly after moving to the southwest, and before he turned entirely to abstraction. The spare, modernist aesthetic of Jonson’s style matches the austere adobe structure.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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