The Restless
Regionalist: The Art of Joe Jones
June 9 though
September 10, 2017
The
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri
November 4,
2017 through January 14, 2018
Birger Sandzen
Gallery, Lindsborg, Kansas
Sixty works by
Joseph John Jones (1909-1963) are shown in the Restless Regionalist. Born in
St. Louis in difficult circumstances, he made New Deal murals in both Missouri
and Kansas, and served as a Combat Artist during World War II. Our loan to the exhibition is of Jones by colleague Edward Laning while they
were in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska during the War.
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Edward Laning,
Joe Jones, 1943, sepia ink drawing (detail shown), 8 x 11 inches, signed and
titled in ink. A typed note reads “Drawn in the Aleutians as correspondent for
the War Department Art Unit.”
Jones made
paintings, lithographs, and serigraphs, and was a remarkably skilled
self-taught draftsman: he is one of very few artists to have made several
covers for Time magazine. Associated American Artists, New York City, published
sixteen of his prints.
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| Joe Jones, Nude, about 1935, lithograph |
While many of
Jones’ early works reflect his home-state’s farming and rural communities, throughout
his career he spoke to serious social issues, especially racism, economic
hardship, and workers rights.
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Gallery’s Joe Jones page:
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