The Paintings of Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré

Introduction by Doc Cuddy, Editor

We recently received the following, tossed over our electronic transom:

Dear Mr. Cuddy,
After lurking about the Magellan’s Log site for more than a year, watching the peculiarly beautiful and funny and sad and happy and silly and serious strains of words, images, and music grow and entwine themselves so strangely, I’ve come to feel that you are a proper venue for the first showing of my paintings. In your original statement of purpose, you spoke of your publication in architectural terms, comparing to a large, always-growing strucutre. with rooms, passageways, courtyards, whole wings springing up, responding in style and content to the changing times, to the—as it were—cultural geography of the Internet. Perhaps the attached works are suitable additions to the sprawling, varied structure you are erecting.
I show the paintings but only in situ, in my studio, where I expect them to remain at least until my death. I have neither the desire nor the need for the clamor and disharmonious rectitude of exhibits and sales. The pictures are here where they belong for now, with me. I have (obviously) had them photographed, and it pleases me that those visual recordings might glow on monitors around the world from the virtual walls of a distant chamber in Magellan’s Log.
Painterly details are attached to each. I lend them, and you, only my name. Other information is irrelevant. While I of course retain the rights to the pictures, this message serves to confer on you and Magellan’s Log permission to publish them as you see fit on your site.
                                                   Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré

After we looked at the pictures of pictures and were seduced by their intoxicating depth, other communications with Ms. Jonré followed as we prepared her online exhibit. She is quite adamant about revealing no biographical details. Of the location of her workspace, she will say only two things: it is far from the nearest city, and it is not in North America. Of the music we chose to put with the paintings, she said, "It doesn’t matter. The visitor can always turn the sound off."

The Paintings of Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré
(with midi’s)

Hydrophile
Neither/Nor
Down in the Valley
Mute Tocsin
Gretchen am Spinnrade
Copse for Two
Keats Again
Muons in Love
Avuncular Tryst
Homonyms

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