Jaime Colson

Jaime Antonio Colson (13 January 1901 – 20 November 1975) was a modernist painter from the Dominican Republic. He, along with Yoryi Morel and Darío Suro, is considered one of the founders of the modernist school of Dominican painting.

Jaime Colson
Born(1901-01-13)13 January 1901
Tubagua, Puerto Plata, Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic
Died20 November 1975(1975-11-20) (aged 74)
Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
Known forPainting, Poetry, Playwrighting
MovementModernism
Personal details
Spouse(s)
Toyo Kurimoto (m. 1945⁠–⁠1975)
MotherJuana M. Colson
FatherAntonio González
RelativesJayme Colson (uncle)
EthnicityWhite Dominican

Early life, education and career

Jaime Antonio Gumercindo González Colson[lower-alpha 1] was born in Cubagua, a hamlet 15 km SE of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic on 13 January 1901, the son of Antonio González, a Spanish merchant, and Juana María Colson Tradwell, a Dominican woman of European American descent. His maternal uncle Jayme Henry Colson Tradwell (1863 – 1954) was a Dominican writer. His maternal grandparents were Henry Colson and Mary Eliza Treadwell, Anglo-American immigrants from Boston.[2]

Colson moved in 1918 to Spain where he studied art in Madrid and Barcelona. He lived in Paris from 1924 to 1934, where he was greatly influenced by Cubists. Primarily a figurative artist, Colson experimented with several different artistic styles, including Cubism, Surrealism, and Neoclassicism. His artistic friends included José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera. After a short but intense stay in Cuba, Colson developed a close friendship with Cuban painter Mario Carreño Morales. He subsequently went back to Europe, where he remained for ten years (1939–1949). After living a decade in Europe, he returned to Santo Domingo in 1950 and continued to teach.

His works blend cubism, surrealism, symbolism, expressionism, neoclassicism.

He also wrote poetry and plays. He is one of the great painters of 20th-century Latin America.

Death and legacy

Colson died of pulmonary edema in Santo Domingo on 20 November 1975, aged 74; he suffered from throat cancer because of his assiduous smoking habit. He was married to Japanese painter and sculptor Toyo Yutaka Karimoto.[3][4]

A retrospective of his work was held at Museo Bellapart in Santo Domingo in 2008.

See also

Notes
  1. In Spain, he inverted his surnames to use primarily his mother's surname instead of his father's family name (to go for Jaime Colson instead of Jaime González), because González is a very common surname in Spain.[1][2]

References
  1. Ventura, Juan (March 26, 2017). "Jaime Colson, el más grande pintor dominicano" (in Spanish). Acento. Archived from the original on March 26, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  2. Ventura, Juan (June 28, 2017). "Jayme Henry Colson Tredwell: destacado escritor y novelista" (in Spanish). Acento. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  3. Colson errante (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Museo Bellapart. 2008. pp. 107, 151, 155.
  4. "Historia Dominicana: Jaime Colson, gran maestro dominicano de la pintura caribeña" (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Noticias S.I.N. January 5, 2018. Archived from the original on January 6, 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2018.


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