JOE JONES Market 1929 Oil on Canvas

30" X 28" (76.2cm x 71cm)
36" x 34" (91.4cm x 86.3) framed

This is an early work of JONES when resources were dear and he used feed sacks for canvas which can be seen in the verso pictures.
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.
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.

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