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Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Raymond Jonson and Twentieth Century American Art: Reconsidering the Canonical in American Art History and the Spiritual in American Modernist Painting Chapter One: "Art Is as Broad as Space": Jonson’s Early Years in the West and Chicago Chapter Two: "The Land of Sunshine and Color and Tragedy": New Mexico and Jonson’s Landscape Paintings and Compositions Chapter Three: "These Are the Second Attack on the Abstract": the Thematic, Conceptual Series Paintings of 1929-1936 Chapter Four: "A More Intense Participation in the Life of the Spirit": Jonson’s First Totally Abstract Paintings, His Theories of Art and the Transcendental Painting Group Chapter Five: "Fast Arriving and Spontaneous Combustions of Color-space-line and Design": Absolute Painting, 1938-1950 Chapter Six: "Causing the Surface to Come to Life": Jonson’s Late Career, 1950-1978 References Index