Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
223 James P. Brawley Dr Sw
Trevor Arnett Hall, 2nd Floor
Atlanta, GA 30314
Trevor Arnett Hall, 2nd Floor
Atlanta, GA 30314
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Museums page for Lois Mailou Jones ((1905 - 1998)), known for African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching. Showing 6 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1905 Boston, Massachusetts - 1998 Boston, Massachusetts. Known for: African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching.
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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Museums & Collections (6)
All MuseumsHoward University Gallery of Art
Howard University
2455 6th Street
Washington, DC 20059National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, N.W.
P.O. Box 96049
Washington, DC 20005-3920National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
750 Ninth Street NW, Suite 410
Washington, DC 20001Sheldon Museum of Art
12th &Amp; R Streets
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300The Johnson Collection
100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203
Spartanburg, SC 29306