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Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, Robert Edmond Jones was an African-American painter active in Chicago where he studied at the Hull House and the Art Institute. He was a founding member of the National Conference of Artists, and his work is in the Negro History Hall of Fame and the Chicago Coliseum.
Source: Treadway/Toomey auction house
Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, Robert Edmond Jones was an African-American painter active in Chicago where he studied at the Hull House and the Art Institute. He was a founding member of the National Conference of Artists, and his work is in the Negro History Hall of Fame and the Chicago Coliseum.
Source: Treadway/Toomey auction house
Free
Oil on board
24x30 inches
1957
Photo credit: John Wilson White Studio
John Brown
Painted plaster relief
8x8x4 1/2 inches
1935
Photo credit: John Wilson White Studio