Item Information
Title: Joe Jones
Date: 1938
Physical Details: Photographic Print : 1 ; 18 x 23 cm.
Description: Identification typed on verso: 11599
Associated Press Photo From New York, Caution: Use Credit
(Editors: Released Sunday, Sept. 4, with John Selby's Advance on Jone Jones, St. Louis artist.)
Used To Paint Houses
Meet Joe Jones, 29-year-old St. Louisan, who quit painting houses to make a name for himself in oil and canvas. Self-taught, he has two pictures in New York Museums; has won government assignments, and once was given a Guggenheim Fellowship to do a "Dust Bowl" series. Jones says he is an inactive communist. His works are termed earthy because, he says, "I like to think of things as being round and square, hot and cold, black and white." Associated Press Photo
Creator: Unidentified
Forms part of: Forbes Watson papers, 1840-1967, bulk 1900-1960
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation Information: Joe Jones, 1938. Forbes Watson papers, 1840-1967. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Digital ID: 2977