Jaime Colson (1901 - 1975) was a modernist painter from the Dominican Republic. Born in San Felipe de Puerto Plata, he studied first in Spain, in Madrid and Barcelona, before moving to Paris and becoming accepted by the Cubists. He moved again, in 1934, to Mexico, where he taught for a time before returning to the Dominican Republic in 1938. Colson's style was influenced by purism and Surrealism, with a dose of Pablo Picasso's classicism as well. Besides exhibiting as a painter he was active as a teacher; among his pupils was the Cuban modernist Mario Carreño Morales.[1]
Colson died in Santo Domingo in 1975.