Английская Википедия:Amy Jones (artist)

Материал из Онлайн справочника
Перейти к навигацииПерейти к поиску

Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Amy Jones (1899–1992) was an American artist and muralist in the early 20th century. She was one of the founding members of the Saranac Lake Art League. Though most known for her watercolors, like Sandy Acre which is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Jones also did illustration work for magazines and books. She won national competitions to complete post office murals for the post offices in Winsted, Connecticut; Painted Post, New York, and Scotia, New York. Several major U.S. corporations hold over twenty of her works.

Early life

Amy A. WhiteШаблон:Sfn was born April 4, 1899Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn in Buffalo, New York.Шаблон:Sfn Her mother, Carrie or Clara White was born in CanadaШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn and her father, Squire White was a New York native.Шаблон:Sfn White's father had died by 1910 and she and her mother were living in Brooklyn.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn[Notes 1] White attended Erasmus Hall High School, graduating in 1918. She won a scholarship to attend the Pratt Institute and study art.Шаблон:Sfn After two years at Pratt, White continued her training at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo.Шаблон:Sfn In 1920, she married David Blair JonesШаблон:Sfn and continued her studies in Woodstock with Cecil Chichester; with Henry Hensche in Provincetown, Massachusetts; Wayman Adams at Elizabethtown, New York; and Anthony di Bona at Saranac Lake. In 1930, Jones was awarded a fellowship from the Buffalo Society of ArtsШаблон:Sfn and she and David moved to Saranac Lake, where David was a tubercular patient in a nursing cottage.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The following year, the couple had a daughter, Lucy.Шаблон:Sfn Jones opened a studio on the grounds of the Trudeau Institute.Шаблон:Sfn

Career

Jones began submitting sketches for art competitions as part of the New Deal's Treasury Relief Art Project during the Great Depression. In 1937, she submitted a triptych, St. Regis Reservation, for one of the Treasury Department's completions and on the basis of the entry was awarded the contract for the post office of Winsted, Connecticut. The painting is now part of the collection at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York.Шаблон:Sfn It pictures daily life and work on the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, including logging, basket weaving, and health care.Шаблон:Sfn

The Winsted post office mural was Jones's first commission.Шаблон:Sfn Her 1938 painting, Lincoln's Arbiter Settles the Winsted Post Office Controversy depicted a historical conflict in Winsted over where the post office for the town was to be located. Warring factions wanted it placed in the east or west sides of town, and sent countless protests to Washington, forcing President Lincoln to send an envoy to settle the dispute.Шаблон:Sfn That same year, she had her first international exposure and began a long career of exhibiting both in the U.S. and abroad.Шаблон:Sfn Her watercolor Apple Tree was selected as part of the 1938 international exhibition of the Art Institute of Chicago.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1939, Jones was awarded the mural contract for the Painted Post, New York, post office.Шаблон:Sfn Her painting, Recording the Victory, shows a group of Revolutionary soldiers who have been captured by a group of Native Americans.Шаблон:Sfn That same year, her watercolor, Saranac River was invited for the Art Institute of Chicago's show and a 1940 oil painting When Work is Done was included in an exhibit at the Smithsonian. Some of her works from this period were also reproduced in Life and the Art Digest. Jones taught art classes at Saranac Lake and served on the board of the local craft board and the village art league.Шаблон:Sfn In 1941, she painted The Glen Family Spared by French and Indians for the post office in Scotia, New York.Шаблон:Sfn In 1943, Jones left Saranac Lake and moved to Mount Kisco, which would remain her home base for nearly forty years.Шаблон:Sfn Jones continued painting and exhibiting in both the U.S. and abroad, traveling to several cities in Italy,Шаблон:Sfn as well as holding one-woman shows in London and Paris.Шаблон:Sfn

In addition to fine art, Jones was a noted illustrator and commercial artist. She designed a poster for the Lake Placid Club, probably as part of the club's campaign to bring the Olympics to Lake Placid in 1932.[1] She had works selected for the 1946 edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's A child's garden of verses.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Jones' first husband died in 1955Шаблон:Sfn and the following year, she was the only female artist profiled in Norman Kent's book Seascapes and Landscapes in Watercolor.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In 1961, she married Owen Phelps Frisbie, of Long Island, New York.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In the Vietnam Era, Jones completed works for the United States Army Art Program depicting medical services provided by the military. In WAF Surgical Technician—Orlando (1965), a woman, who is a hospital technician at the Orlando Air Force Base, is making medication rounds with a male orderly.Шаблон:Sfn Throughout the 1970s, Jones worked and exhibited at such venues as the Hudson River Museum (1972) in Yonkers, New York; the Galeria Santo Stefano (1972) in Venice;Шаблон:Sfn the Gallerida II Sigillo (1974) of Padua, Italy; the Gallery of Glory Be (1975) in Kingston, Jamaica; and the Wave Hill Gallery (1977) in Riverdale, New York, among others.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1986, Jones moved to Escondido, California, to be near her daughter. She continued to work and hold exhibitions.Шаблон:Sfn Jones died on October 8, 1992, in Escondido, California.Шаблон:Sfn

Legacy

Файл:Sandy Acre SAAM-1974.28.272 1.jpg
Sandy Acre (1938)

Jones' painting Sandy Acre is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.Шаблон:Sfn Both the Ford Motor Company and Standard Oil Company have sizable collections of her worksШаблон:Sfn and the New York Hospital has 35 of her paintings in their collection. Besides public and private corporate holdings, Jones has works in numerous private collections and museums.Шаблон:Sfn

Notes

Шаблон:Reflist

References

Citations

Шаблон:Reflist

Bibliography

Шаблон:Refbegin

Шаблон:Refend

External links

Шаблон:Authority control

Партнерские ресурсы
Криптовалюты
Магазины
Хостинг
Разное


Ошибка цитирования Для существующих тегов <ref> группы «Notes» не найдено соответствующего тега <references group="Notes"/>

  1. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
Источник — http://wikihandbk.com/ruwiki/index.php?title=Английская_Википедия:Amy_Jones_(artist)&oldid=13121537