Born in St. Louis, Missouri, April 7, 1909, and died in Morristown, New
Jersey, 1963, Joe Jones was a painter and lithographer. Self
taught, he quit school at age fifteen to work as a house painter.
Winning his first award in 1931, Jones gained the attention of St.
Louis patrons who financed his travel to the artists' colony in
Provincetown, Massachusetts. He began winning awards at age 22 in
1931 with his early paintings that are typical Midwestern Regionalist
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