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Lot 86: Joe Jones Mixed Media - Double Portrait of Two Women

Est: $1,200 USD - $1,800 USDPassed
Artemis Fine ArtsLouisville, CO, USSeptember 29, 2023

Item Overview

Description

**Originally Listed At $600**

Joe (Joseph John) Jones (American, 1909-1963). Two figures, mixed media, 20th century. Signed at upper right. A beautiful portrait of two women by Joe Jones, a self-taught artist who was known for his Social Realist and American Regionalist works as well as his Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals. Jones depicted both women in bust-length poses, looking toward one another, as if engaged in a meaningful conversation. The figures as well as the background are rendered with lyrical lines and impressionistic washes of watercolor and gouache, in a colorful rainbow-like palette. A lovely double portrait mounted in a custom double matte and gold-toned frame. Size (sight view): 10.625" L x 13.5" W (27 cm x 34.3 cm) Size (frame): 24.25" L x 27" W (61.6 cm x 68.6 cm)

Artist 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. Louis in 1935 to pursue his art career in New York. In 1937, he was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship to create a pictorial record of conditions in the dust bowl. That same year, his work was included in a major 119 exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, PA. Through the period of the WPA Jones was awarded five major mural commissions. As a result, he created murals for the post offices at Seneca, Kansas, Men and Wheat (1940); Anthony, Kansas, Turning a Corner (1939); Hutchinson, Kansas; Magnolia, Arkansas; and Charleston, Missouri. During World War II he worked as a war artist for Life magazine. Because Jones addressed major political and social issues in so many of his paintings, he is typically cited as a Social Realist as well as a Regionalist. His style changed in the late 1940s to minimal and non-representational. He also worked as an instructor at St. Bernards School for Boys, Ralston, NJ." (Kodner Gallery website)

Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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Artist or Maker

Condition Report

Signed at upper right. Painting is mounted in custom double matte and frame. It has not been examined outside the frame but appears to be in excellent condition. Frame is also very nice save a few minor scuffs. Fit with suspension wire.

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Auction Details

CONSIGNOR SELL OFF >> Ancient / Ethnographic Art

by
Artemis Fine Arts
September 29, 2023, 08:00 AM MST

686 S. Taylor Ave., #108, Louisville, CO, 80027, US

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Antiquities, Pre-Columbian & Tribal Art

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