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This exhibition focuses on three core members of the Transcendental Painting Group: Raymond Jonson, Emil Bisttram, and Florence Miller Pierce. Jonson and Bisttram founded the group and exerted a certain amount of seniority. Pierce was the youngest member and one of only two women. All of these artists sought to express themselves through pure form and color. To this end most of Jonson's and Bisttram's paintings are abstract, geometric, and colorful. Jonson and Bisttram attempted to achieve pure form and color through pure painterly means and were successful to varying degrees. Pierce …