About John Jones

  • Biography

    The following information was provided in June of 2006 by Jon Herman of Norfolk, Virginia:

    John Paul Jones was born in Indianola, Iowa on November 18, 1924. After graduation from high school in 1943, he was drafted in the army where he served with a field artillery battery in the Far East campaign. Being eligible for the G.I. bill, he enrolled in the summer of 1946 as a freshman at the State University of Iowa campus at Iowa City. By his own admission, his concept of art was very limited.

    In the fall of 1948, he studied print-making under the auspices of Mauricio Lasansky, an internationally-known print maker, who was teaching at the time. After much work and guidance, Lasansky helped h...

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