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Lois Mailou Jones

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Lois Mailou Jones (1905 - 1998) was active/lived in District Of Columbia, Massachusetts / Haiti.  Lois Jones is known for African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching.

Artist Statement: "Mine is a quiet explorations quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint."

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.

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Facts about Lois Mailou Jones

   Publications  Book References:  50
Magazine References:  6

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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Lois Mailou Jones
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Women in the Arts The Mask As Muse: Lois Mailou Jones October 2010 Finley, Cheryl Yes
American Art Review Modern Art & National Identity August 2005 McDonnell, Patricia Yes
Art & Antiques Museum Scene March 2004 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
ARTnews The Rise of African American Art September 2003 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
American Art Review Art of the Harlem Renaissance April 1998 Powell, Richard J Yes
American Art Review African-American Artists in Paris December 1996 Conwill, Kinshasha Yes
50 Book References for Lois Mailou Jones
Year Author Title Pages Color
2018 Blackman, Lynne (Editor), The Johnson Collection Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection 245 Yes
2009 Moore, Lewis Tanner In Search of Missing Masters: The Lewis Tanner Moore Collection of African-American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 124 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Hirshler, Erica E A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940 227 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Passantino, Erika D (editor) The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making 819 Yes
1998 Dunn, David (Introduction) Breaking Boundaries: An Art in Embassies Program American Women Artists in France, ca. 1880-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 Yes
1998 Taha, Halima Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas 270 Yes
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1997 Martin, Elizabeth; Vivian Meyer Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists 176 Yes
1997 Powell, Richard J Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century 256 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1996 Laduke, B. and Varaday, B. Persistent Women Artists [video] Pablita Velarde, Mine Okubo, Lois Mailou Jones 0 No
1996 Robinson, Jontyle Theresa Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women 176 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1994 Benjamin, Tritobia Hayes Lois Mailou Jones The Life and Art of 142 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 San Antonio Museum of Art African American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 Yes
1993 Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present 542 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Perry, Regina A Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art 203 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1989 Dallas Museum of Fine Art Black Art/Ancestral Legacy
(Exhibition catalog)		 305 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 McElroy, Guy C (others) African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection 125 Yes
1989 Reynolds, Gary/Beryl J Wright Against the Odds African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation
(Exhibition catalog)		 298 Yes
1987 Heller, Nancy Women Artists An Illustrated History 224 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1979 Withers, Josephine Women Artists in Washington Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1978 Lewis, Samella Art: African American 246 Yes
1977 Grigsby, Eugene Jr. Art & Ethnics Background for Teaching Youth in a Pluralistic Society 147 No
1976 Driskell, David C Two Centuries of Black American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Willis, John Ralph Fragments of American Life An Exhibition of Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 75 No
1975 Driskell, David C Amistad II Afro-American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 No
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1973 Fine, Elsa Honig The Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity 310 Yes
1971 Atkinson, J Edward Black Dimensions in Contemporary American Art 127 Yes
1970 National Cent/Afro-Am Artists Afro-American Artists New York and Boston
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1961 Capitol Hill Community Council Community Art Show Guide and Catalog
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 No
1960 Dover, Cedric American Negro Art 186 Yes
1943 Porter, James A Modern Negro Art 272 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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