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Joe (Joseph John) Jones

Joe (Joseph John) Jones (1909 - 1963) was active/lived in Missouri, New York, New Jersey.  Joe Jones is 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.

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 Gugge

SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
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