A painter of florals, figures and genre subjects, Francis Coates Jones was a noted easel and mural painter. Family wealth provided for basic needs during his lifetime, although he also made money... Read full biography
A painter of florals, figures and genre subjects, Francis Coates Jones was a noted easel and mural painter. Family wealth provided for basic needs during his lifetime, although he also made money from his artwork including illustrations for Scribner's and Century magazines. Francis Jones was born... Read full biography
A painter of florals, figures and genre subjects, Francis Coates Jones was a noted easel and mural painter. Family wealth provided for basic needs during his lifetime, although he also made money from his artwork including illustrations for Scribner's and Century magazines. Francis Jones was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1857, and was the younger brother of Hugh Bolton Jones, who also became a well-known painter and with whom he did some collaborative artwork. Francis attended a Quaker school... Read full biography
A painter of florals, figures and genre subjects, Francis Coates Jones was a noted easel and mural painter. Family wealth provided for basic needs during his lifetime, although he also made money from his artwork including illustrations for Scribner's and Century magazines. Francis Jones was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1857, and was the younger brother of Hugh Bolton Jones, who also became a well-known painter and with whom he did some collaborative artwork. Francis attended a Quaker school in Baltimore, and when he was age nineteen, he and his brother went to London where they visited Edwin Austin Abbey. From there they spent a year in France at Pont Aven, and in the autumn of 1877, went to Paris, where Francis enrolled at the Ecole... Read full biography
A painter of florals, figures and genre subjects, Francis Coates Jones was a noted easel and mural painter. Family wealth provided for basic needs during his lifetime, although he also made money from his artwork including illustrations for Scribner's and Century magazines. Francis Jones was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1857, and was the younger brother of Hugh Bolton Jones, who also became a well-known painter and with whom he did some collaborative artwork. Francis attended a Quaker school in Baltimore, and when he was age nineteen, he and his brother went to London where they visited Edwin Austin Abbey. From there they spent a year in France at Pont Aven, and in the autumn of 1877, went to Paris, where Francis enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts* and studied in the antique class of Henri Lehmann. After a family tour with his brother, pa... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (42)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Tranquil America: A Century of Painting, 1840-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Editor, Spanierman Gallery
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
American Art From the Dicke Collection
1997
The Dayton Art Institute
264 pages (color)
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Americans and Paris (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Marlais, Michael Andrew
62 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections
1989
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
Collected Essays on 101 Art Works From the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Musem
1988
Wooden, Howard E
212 pages
A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art
1987
Neff, Terry (editor)
300 pages (color)
Domestic Bliss Family Life in American Painting 1840-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Edwards, Lee M; Jan Seidler Ramirez; Timothy Anglin Burgard
160 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
American Masterworks on Paper: Drawings, Watercolors and Prints (Hirschl & Adler Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Dreishpoon, Douglas (essay)
63 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Arts of the American Renaissance (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
123 pages (color)
Down Garden Paths The Floral Environment in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Gerdts, William H
144 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
An American Perspective: Nineteenth Century Art From the Collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Wilmerding, John; Linda Ayres, Earl Powell
180 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64
1980
Burke, Doreen Bolger
479 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections
1979
Springfield Library & Museum
216 pages (color)
Representative Works of Contemporary American Artists
1978
Trumble, Alfred
139 pages
Recent Ideals of Americn Art
1977
Sheldon, George William
176 pages
Book of American Figure Painters (Art Experience, Late 19th Cen/ no. 11)
1977
Weinberg, H Barbara (intro)
240 pages
Artists and Models
1975
Archives of American Art
40 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index