Bidspirit auction | Lois Mailou Jones (1905 -

Lois Mailou Jones (1905 - 1998) American/Haitian - Lois Mailou Jones (1905 - 1998) Watercolor on Paper, Signed, Measures ( 9.5 x 11 inches ) w/frame ( 15 x 28 inches ) 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 moving to Washington, and was a frequent participant in its exhibitions during the 1930s. Condition: Good Condition