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1913 Georgetown, South Carolina - 1996 Chicago, Illinois. Known for: Female figure, jazz musicians, portrait and genre painting.
The Fantasy World of Fred D. Jones. Re-Discovering His Life in Art. Frederick D. Jones (1913-1996) was a prolific, Chicago artist whose career spanned more than five decades. During his formative... Read full biography
The Fantasy World of Fred D. Jones. Re-Discovering His Life in Art. Frederick D. Jones (1913-1996) was a prolific, Chicago artist whose career spanned more than five decades. During his formative years, when a gritty, urban, social realism dominated the work of African American artists, Jones... Read full biography
The Fantasy World of Fred D. Jones. Re-Discovering His Life in Art. Frederick D. Jones (1913-1996) was a prolific, Chicago artist whose career spanned more than five decades. During his formative years, when a gritty, urban, social realism dominated the work of African American artists, Jones developed a dreamy, romantic style of fantasy. His artwork was exhibited and marketed across the country and was widely collected. However, like many talented African American artists of his generation, he... Read full biography
The Fantasy World of Fred D. Jones. Re-Discovering His Life in Art. Frederick D. Jones (1913-1996) was a prolific, Chicago artist whose career spanned more than five decades. During his formative years, when a gritty, urban, social realism dominated the work of African American artists, Jones developed a dreamy, romantic style of fantasy. His artwork was exhibited and marketed across the country and was widely collected. However, like many talented African American artists of his generation, he received little recognition in the mainstream art world and his death went largely unnoticed. A significant documentation of Jones’ career occurred in 1988 when the Smithsonian Institution selected him for interview in an oral history program that... Read full biography
The Fantasy World of Fred D. Jones. Re-Discovering His Life in Art. Frederick D. Jones (1913-1996) was a prolific, Chicago artist whose career spanned more than five decades. During his formative years, when a gritty, urban, social realism dominated the work of African American artists, Jones developed a dreamy, romantic style of fantasy. His artwork was exhibited and marketed across the country and was widely collected. However, like many talented African American artists of his generation, he received little recognition in the mainstream art world and his death went largely unnoticed. A significant documentation of Jones’ career occurred in 1988 when the Smithsonian Institution selected him for interview in an oral history program that collected information on significant, overlooked black artists. Much of the information in this article was drawn from t... Read full biography
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Keywords (23)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Painting, Fine Art
- •Sketch, Sketching
Art Media
- •Enamel Paint
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Fantasy, Fancy, Fables, Dreams, Visions, Mystery, Creatures
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Mythology, Legends
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago