Jaime Antonio Gumercindo González Colson (13 January 1901 – 20 November 1975) was a Dominican modernist painter, writer, and playwright born in Tubagua, Puerto Plata in 1901.

[3] He struck up friendships with artists like Maruja Mallo, Rafael Barradas and Salvador Dalí in Spain, and in Paris, came to know Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, masters of the cubist school that influenced his style.

[3] There he studied at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts under the tutelage of painters Cecilio Pla, Julio Romero de Torres, and Pedro Carbonell.

[3] After his formative years in Madrid, he returned to Barcelona where he was presented at the Real Círculo Artístico, by Santiago Rusinol and Joaquin Terruella Matilla.

[13] Following suggestions from Dominican writer Pedro Henríquez Ureña and Mexican poet Maples Arce, he left for Mexico in 1934 with hopes of improving his situation; there, Colson held a personal exhibition, sponsored by the Secretary of Education and began teaching at the Workers' School of Art.

In Mexico, Colson befriended María Izquierdo, José Gorostiza, Antonin Artaud, Wifredo Lam and his Cuban student, Mario Carreño.

[17] The next year in Paris he exhibited at the prestigious Berheim-Jeune Gallery ten paintings and drawings, with artists Mario Carreño and Max Jiménez.

Following his resignation, Colson illustrated the Dominican author Tomás Hernández Franco’s book Cibao, with drawings portraying the daily life of cibaeños.

Afterwards, Colson practically fled to Haiti with very few works, leaving behind a huge collection of paintings to the ambassador of his country, Brea Messina, including the entire series of "La Catharsis" and the best of his period of "reviving cubism" that have largely disappeared.

The influence of the De Chirico can be seen in his works from the 30s and 40s, in the use of perspective and scenography, themes towards the metaphysical and surrealist, the return to the classical, unreal atmospheres, and the reinterpretations of Mediterranean mythology.

Religious or mystical themes were also repeatedly explored in his various ecclesiastical murals and paintings, representing biblical and hagiographic subjects like El compte Arnau, one of his most colorful and famous works.

Colson died of pulmonary edema in Santo Domingo on November 20 1975, aged 74; he suffered from throat cancer because of his assiduous smoking habit.