About Louis Edward Jones

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    LOUIS EDWARD JONES (1878-1958)

    Louis Edward Jones moved to Gatlinburg, Tennessee in the mid-1920s and became the area’s virtual artist-in-residence until his death in 1958. During his lifetime he saw the town emerge as a major tourist destination, and his evocative oil paintings and etchings no doubt fueled this development.

    Jones was born in Rush Township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, a small town in the northeastern part of the state. He spent his early years in other locales in the area, including Philadelphia while he was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, probably around 1908. One of his instructors was Birge Harrison, a tonalist landscape painter who also conducted summer workshops in...

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