Born in St. Louis, Missouri, April 7, 1909, and died in Morristown, New Jersey, 1963, Joe Jones was a painter and lithographer. Self taught, he quit school at age fifteen to work as a house painter.... Read full biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, April 7, 1909, and died in Morristown, New Jersey, 1963, Joe Jones was a painter and lithographer. Self taught, he quit school at age fifteen to work as a house painter. Winning his first award in 1931, Jones gained the attention of St. Louis patrons who financed his... Read full biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, April 7, 1909, and died in Morristown, New Jersey, 1963, Joe Jones was a painter and lithographer. Self taught, he quit school at age fifteen to work as a house painter. Winning his first award in 1931, Jones gained the attention of St. Louis patrons who financed his travel to the artists' colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He began winning awards at age 22 in 1931 with his early paintings that are typical Midwestern Regionalist works depicting wheat fields and... Read full biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, April 7, 1909, and died in Morristown, New Jersey, 1963, Joe Jones was a painter and lithographer. Self taught, he quit school at age fifteen to work as a house painter. Winning his first award in 1931, Jones gained the attention of St. Louis patrons who financed his travel to the artists' colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He began winning awards at age 22 in 1931 with his early paintings that are typical Midwestern Regionalist works depicting wheat fields and wheat farming. A political activist as well as a painter, Jones organized art classes for unemployed youngsters, which he held in the old St. Louis courthouse in 1934. He alienated his supporters with the pronouncement that he had joined the... Read full biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, April 7, 1909, and died in Morristown, New Jersey, 1963, Joe Jones was a painter and lithographer. Self taught, he quit school at age fifteen to work as a house painter. Winning his first award in 1931, Jones gained the attention of St. Louis patrons who financed his travel to the artists' colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He began winning awards at age 22 in 1931 with his early paintings that are typical Midwestern Regionalist works depicting wheat fields and wheat farming. A political activist as well as a painter, Jones organized art classes for unemployed youngsters, which he held in the old St. Louis courthouse in 1934. He alienated his supporters with the pronouncement that he had joined the Communist Party, so Jones signed up for the Public Works of Art Project in 1934. He left St. Lo. SOURCES:. Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (54)
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Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945
2006
Craig, Susan (Compiler)
0 pages
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
An American Art Colony: The Art and Artists of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1930-1940
2004
Kerr, Scott; R H Dick
235 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Plain Pictures Images of the American Prairie (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Kinsey, Joni
256 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum
1993
Woodward, Kesler E
160 pages (color)
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
Benton, Pollock and the Politics of Modernism
1991
Doss, Erika
445 pages
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
Artists Against War and Fascism Papers/First American Artists' Congress
1986
Baigell, Mathew/Julia Williams
310 pages
The West of the Imagination
1986
Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann
457 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of American Art
1986
Munson Williams-Proctor Inst
101 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Wooden, Howard E
151 pages
Order and Enigma (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Clark-Langager, Sarah
95 pages
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
Social Concern and Urban Realism American Painting in the 1930s (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Hills, Patricia
96 pages
Wall-to-Wall America A Cultural History of Post Office Murals
1982
Marling, Karal Ann
348 pages
Social Art in America 1930-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Brown, Milton (essay). ACA Galleries
62 pages
The Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection The Brooklyn Museum
1981
Lane, John R.; Michael Botwinick (Foreward)
60 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Neglected Generation of American Realist Painters, 1930-48 Wichita Art Museum Exhibition, May 3-June 14, 1981 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Wooden, Howard E. (Text)
64 pages (color)
Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst
544 pages (color)
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
Currents of Expansion Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Barter, Judith; Lynn E Springer
189 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
The Regionalists
1976
Heller, Nancy/Julia Williams
190 pages (color)
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
The American Scene Urban & Rural Regionalists, 30s and 40s (Exhibition catalog)
1976
University of Minnesota
39 pages
The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s
1974
Baigell, Mathew
214 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
1974
Gidley, Mick
58 pages
Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art
1973
Carnegie Institute
196 pages (color)
The New Deal for Artists
1973
McKinzie, Richard D
203 pages
Social Realism Art as a Weapon
1973
Shapiro, David
340 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Agee, William C
80 pages (color)
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
Best of Art
1948
Genauer, Emily
182 pages (color)
University of Arizona Collection of American Art
1947
University of Arizona
106 pages (color)
Painting in the U S A
1946
Gruskin, Alan D
223 pages (color)
Contemporary American Painting
1946
Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro)
260 pages (color)
Experiencing American Pictures
1943
Pearson, Ralph M
234 pages (color)
Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists
1940
Hall, W. S.
150 pages (color)
Modern Art in America
1939
Cheney, Martha Candler
190 pages
A Treasury of American Prints 100 Etchings and Lithographs by Living Artists
1939
Craven, Thomas (editor)
210 pages
American Painting Today
1939
Watson, Forbes (essay)
179 pages (color)
First American Art Congress 1936
1936
American Art Congress
104 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index