NICHOLAS ANGELO
FINE ART

Jones was born of modest means in a poor St. Louis Missouri neighborhood, where his father worked as a house painter.

He was a political activist, and known for murals done under WPA auspicies.In most cases, these depicted farming scenes and midwestern wheat fields. Also important oils of famers and workers stemmed from his hand.

Though self taught, his work was of such quality, that he was able to hold his own exhibition in New York in 1935. As a result he was acclaimed by poet and critic Archibald MacLeish, who summed up hies oevre thus: " There is more scope, more vitality and more promise as well as mastery, than most artists a decade his senior." In 1937 he won a Guggenheim fellowship and subsequently prizes from Pennsylvania and National Academies.