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Ad Code: 4
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Hand-pulled woodcut, 1947, 12" x 7"
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  An important African-American painter from Chicago, Fred Jones did numerous paintings and drawings of jazz figures including Louie Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Pee Wee Russell.
He studied at the Art institute of Chicago with George Neal, the first black teacher at the Institute, and Eldzier Cortor, a Chicago artist who spent time painting in Haiti.
Jones and his contemporaries frequented the Southside Community Center in the 1940s, and he exhibited throughout the South, winning the Purchase Award in 1943 at Atlanta University.
Source: Treadway Toomey Galleries. Auction Catalogue 12/2/2001
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