Biography from Williams American Art Galleries:
| Prescott M. M. “Mike” Jones, a known Rockport and WPA artist, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1904. He began his education at Tufts University where he studied with Rockport artist William Hazelton. After graduating from Tufts, Jones enrolled at Vesper George School of Art in Boston. His relationship with the school continued after his graduation when he later returned as a faculty member.
He began exhibiting in the 1930’s at Grace Horne Gallery and later at the Art Institute of Chicago and New York World’s Fair. He received a Fellowship from the Tiffany Foundation in 1934 that allowed him to pursue his art even further. Jones maintained a close relationship with the town of Haverhill, working as Director of Studio Workshops at the City of Haverhill College.
Studied
Tufts University with William Hazelton (Degree)
Vesper George School of Art, Boston
Europe
Member
Rockport Art Association
North Shore Art Association
Gloucester Society of Artists
Merrimack Valley Art Association
Springfield Art League
Boston Watercolor Society
Boston Society of Independent Artists
Work
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Fitchburg Art Museum
United States Department of Interior, Washington, DC
Anchorage Museum of History and Art
Boston College
Ford Times, 1957, 1958
IBM Collection
City of Haverhill College
Haverhill High School, MA
Exhibited
Grace Horne Gallery, Boston, 1930-1940
Philadelphia Painters Club, 1935-1936
Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1935, 1937
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1936-1938
World’s Fair New York, 1939
Art Institute of Chicago, 1935, 1937-1938, 1940-1941
California Watercolor Society, 1941
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, MA, 1938-1941
Milch Gallery, New York City, 1941
Soldiers & Sailors Exhibition, Boston, 1942 (prize)
Terry Art Institute, 1952
North Shore Art Association
Rockport Art Association
References
Curtis, “Images of a New England Seacoast,” American Art Review, October 1998
Falk, Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975
Lippincott (ed.), Artists of the Rockport Art Association -1980, Sixtieth Anniversary Edition
Recchia (ed.), Artists of the Rockport Art Association 1940
Sawyer, By the People, For the People, New England (WPA Artists)
Woodward, Painting in the North: Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum
Falk (ed.), The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
Dunbier (ed.), The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
Creps, Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers of the U. S.
Mallett, Mallett’s Index of Artists, International-Biographical
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