Artist Statement: "Mine is a quiet explorations quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint."... Read full biography
Artist Statement: "Mine is a quiet explorations quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint." . For more than fifty years, Lois Mailou Jones has enjoyed a consistently successful career as a... Read full biography
Artist Statement: "Mine is a quiet explorations quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint." . For more than fifty years, Lois Mailou Jones has enjoyed a consistently successful career as a painter, teacher, book illustrator, and textile designer. Her art spans three continents: North America, Europe, and Africa, and she has been represented in more than seventy group shows and mounted... Read full biography
Artist Statement: "Mine is a quiet explorations quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint." . For more than fifty years, Lois Mailou Jones has enjoyed a consistently successful career as a painter, teacher, book illustrator, and textile designer. Her art spans three continents: North America, Europe, and Africa, and she has been represented in more than seventy group shows and mounted twenty one-woman exhibitions since 1937. Jones was born in Boston in 1905, the second of two children of Thomas Vreeland and Caroline Dorinda Jones. Jones's Carolina, as well as the climate and aftermath of the Harlem Renaissance, motivated the... Read full biography
Artist Statement: "Mine is a quiet explorations quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint." . For more than fifty years, Lois Mailou Jones has enjoyed a consistently successful career as a painter, teacher, book illustrator, and textile designer. Her art spans three continents: North America, Europe, and Africa, and she has been represented in more than seventy group shows and mounted twenty one-woman exhibitions since 1937. Jones was born in Boston in 1905, the second of two children of Thomas Vreeland and Caroline Dorinda Jones. Jones's Carolina, as well as the climate and aftermath of the Harlem Renaissance, motivated the depiction of African and African- American themes in Jones's early paintings. She became associated with the Harmon Foundation shortly after movi... Read full biography
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About Lois Mailou Jones: Books
Books & Publications (50)
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Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
2018
Blackman, Lynne (Editor), The Johnson Collection
245 pages (color)
In Search of Missing Masters: The Lewis Tanner Moore Collection of African-American Art (Exhibition catalog)
2009
Moore, Lewis Tanner
124 pages (color)
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
A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940
2001
Hirshler, Erica E
227 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
1999
Passantino, Erika D (editor)
819 pages (color)
Breaking Boundaries: An Art in Embassies Program American Women Artists in France, ca. 1880-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Dunn, David (Introduction)
24 pages (color)
Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas
1998
Taha, Halima
270 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists
1997
Martin, Elizabeth; Vivian Meyer
176 pages (color)
Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century
1997
Powell, Richard J
256 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
Persistent Women Artists [video] Pablita Velarde, Mine Okubo, Lois Mailou Jones
1996
Laduke, B. and Varaday, B.
0 pages
Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women
1996
Robinson, Jontyle Theresa
176 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Lois Mailou Jones The Life and Art of
1994
Benjamin, Tritobia Hayes
142 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
African American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1994
San Antonio Museum of Art
67 pages (color)
A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present
1993
Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson
542 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art
1993
Perry, Regina A
203 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
Black Art/Ancestral Legacy (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Dallas Museum of Fine Art
305 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection
1989
McElroy, Guy C (others)
125 pages (color)
Against the Odds African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Reynolds, Gary/Beryl J Wright
298 pages (color)
Women Artists An Illustrated History
1987
Heller, Nancy
224 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
Women Artists in Washington Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Withers, Josephine
144 pages (color)
Art: African American
1978
Lewis, Samella
246 pages (color)
Art & Ethnics Background for Teaching Youth in a Pluralistic Society
1977
Grigsby, Eugene Jr.
147 pages
Two Centuries of Black American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Driskell, David C
221 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Fragments of American Life An Exhibition of Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Willis, John Ralph
75 pages
Amistad II Afro-American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Driskell, David C
92 pages
Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
1973
Cederholm, Theresa Dickason
348 pages
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
The Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity
1973
Fine, Elsa Honig
310 pages (color)
Black Dimensions in Contemporary American Art
1971
Atkinson, J Edward
127 pages (color)
Afro-American Artists New York and Boston (Exhibition catalog)
1970
National Cent/Afro-Am Artists
80 pages
Community Art Show Guide and Catalog (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Capitol Hill Community Council
112 pages
American Negro Art
1960
Dover, Cedric
186 pages (color)
Modern Negro Art
1943
Porter, James A
272 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index