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Calvin Bell Jones

Calvin Bell Jones (1934 - 2010) was active/lived in Illinois.  Calvin Jones is known for Commercial art, graphics, mural and easel painting, African American themes.

Calvin Bell Jones (January 7, 1934 – August 21, 2010)[1] was an Afro-centric visual artist and a Black Arts Movement activist from Chicago. He is known primarily for his nine murals and paintings.

He was awarded a full scholarship to attend the Chicago Institute of Art and received his BFA in drawing/painting and illustration in 1957. Jones' initial 17 year career was in advertising. He was Hallmark Cards' first African American Art Director and worked for the first black-owned ad agency, Vince Cullers Advertising (founded in 1956).

Additionally, Jones worked with his own company, Sales Graphics Advertising. Jones left advertising in 1970 and became the co-director of the avant garde AFAM Gallery Studio and Cultural Center in Chicago with Alfred Tyler.

Beginning in 1976, he became a community mural leader in Chicago and collaborated with Mitchell Caton on six Chicago murals. Additionally, Jones' mural portfolio includes a mural in Detroit and Atlanta.

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