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Frederick Douglas Jones Jr BIOGRAPHY
1913 Georgetown, South Carolina - 1996 Chicago, Illinois. Known for: Female figure, jazz musicians, portrait and genre painting.
The Fantasy World of Fred D. Jones. Re-Discovering His Life in Art. Frederick D. Jones (1913-1996) was a prolific, Chicago artist whose career spanned more than five decades. During his formative... Read full biography
The Fantasy World of Fred D. Jones. Re-Discovering His Life in Art. Frederick D. Jones (1913-1996) was a prolific, Chicago artist whose career spanned more than five decades. During his formative years, when a gritty, urban, social realism dominated the work of African American artists, Jones... Read full biography
The Fantasy World of Fred D. Jones. Re-Discovering His Life in Art. Frederick D. Jones (1913-1996) was a prolific, Chicago artist whose career spanned more than five decades. During his formative years, when a gritty, urban, social realism dominated the work of African American artists, Jones developed a dreamy, romantic style of fantasy. His artwork was exhibited and marketed across the country and was widely collected. However, like many talented African American artists of his generation, he... Read full biography
The Fantasy World of Fred D. Jones. Re-Discovering His Life in Art. Frederick D. Jones (1913-1996) was a prolific, Chicago artist whose career spanned more than five decades. During his formative years, when a gritty, urban, social realism dominated the work of African American artists, Jones developed a dreamy, romantic style of fantasy. His artwork was exhibited and marketed across the country and was widely collected. However, like many talented African American artists of his generation, he received little recognition in the mainstream art world and his death went largely unnoticed. A significant documentation of Jones’ career occurred in 1988 when the Smithsonian Institution selected him for interview in an oral history program that... Read full biography
The Fantasy World of Fred D. Jones. Re-Discovering His Life in Art. Frederick D. Jones (1913-1996) was a prolific, Chicago artist whose career spanned more than five decades. During his formative years, when a gritty, urban, social realism dominated the work of African American artists, Jones developed a dreamy, romantic style of fantasy. His artwork was exhibited and marketed across the country and was widely collected. However, like many talented African American artists of his generation, he received little recognition in the mainstream art world and his death went largely unnoticed. A significant documentation of Jones’ career occurred in 1988 when the Smithsonian Institution selected him for interview in an oral history program that collected information on significant, overlooked black artists. Much of the information in this article was drawn from t... Read full biography
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The Fantasy World of Fred D. Jones
Re-Discovering His Life in Art
Frederick D. Jones (1913-1996) was a prolific, Chicago artist whose career spanned more than five decades. During his formative years, when a gritty, urban, social realism dominated the work of African American artists, Jones developed a dreamy, romantic style of fantasy. His artwork was exhibited and marketed across the country and was widely collected. However, like many talented African American artists of his generation, he received little recognition in the mainstream art world and his death went largely unnoticed.
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