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1909 Saint Louis, Missouri - 1963 Morristown, New Jersey. Known for: Regionalist and abstract painting.
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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About Joe (Joseph John) Jones: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (20)
All MuseumsButler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
University of Miami
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Sam Fox Arts Center/Washington University
One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1214
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899Munson
310 Genesee Street
Utica, NY 13502Musée d'art Contemporain de Lyon / Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
81 Cité Internationale, Quai Charles de Gaulle
Lyon, FranceSaint Louis Art Museum
Forest Park
One Fine Arts Drive
St. Louis, MO 63110San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, 1450 el Prado
Po 122107
San Diego, CA 92101St. Louis Mercantile Library At The University Of Missouri - St. Louis
Thomas Jefferson Library Building
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The Toledo Museum of Art
2445 Monroe Street
Box 1013
Toledo, OH 43697The University of Arizona Museum of Art
1031 N. Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0002University of Saint Joseph Art Gallery
1678 Asylum Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117-2791Weisman Art Museum
The University of Minnesota
333 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455White House Historical Association (WHHA)
740 Jackson Place NW,
Washington, DC 20006Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014