Joe Jones emerged as a talented modernist painter in St. Louis around 1930, and his brief training in decorative painting helped him to secure a mural commission in 1931. Radicalized by the Great Depression, Jones began to treat the country’s troubles in social realist paintings beginning in 1933, and in 1935 showed his work to acclaim at his first one-man show in New York. Having found his voice, Jones embarked on a second phase of his career in 1936, when he received his first of several commissions from government agencies. The majority of these were from a Treasury Department program, which from 1937 to 1941 employed him to paint five murals for post offices in Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, mostly depicting wheat harvesting. He said of his 1939 mural in Anthony, Kansas: “My interest was in portraying man at work, his job before him and how he goes about it with his tools.... Man doing his work efficiently and under control is beautiful to look at to other men and that is my chief concern.”
For his last Treasury Department mural, for the post office in Dexter, Missouri, in 1941, Jones chose a slightly different subject, corn husking. Instead of the broad prairie views of his wheat-harvesting works, tall corn stalks block the view into the distance. Jones echoed this closed composition in our painting of the same year, Cornfield, to convey the communal nature of corn picking. A team of four men works at close quarters and with their hands, each attentive to his task: the boy in the center holds a sack open for his companion to throw in a handful of ears; the man on the left waits to tie up the bag; and a man standing between the rows of corn picks more ears. Jones animated the background with the writhing linear movement and flickering highlights of the leaves and stalks that extend back to the horizon. Jones covered World War II for the War Art Unit and Life magazine. Following the war, he shifted to landscape subjects, and produced lithographs and silkscreens as well. Jones settled in Morristown, New Jersey, in 1942. Jones’s work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Newark Museum, New Jersey; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Cleveland Museum of Art; Saint Louis Art Museum; Denver Art Museum; and the Phoenix Art Museum.
(Biography provided by Godel & Co. Fine Art)
Modern Landscape, Abstract Oil on Canvas Painting by Joe Jones
By Joe Jones
Located in Long Island City, NY
A simplified landscape oil painting by Joe Jones. This two-toned piece is nicely framed and signed. Modern Landscape Joe Jones, American (1909–1963) Date: circa 1940 Oil on Canvas, ...
Oil
$13,250
H 16 in W 24 in
"Tranquility 04.05.2008" oil painting moody abstraction of beach horizon, framed
By Nelson H. White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Tranquility 04.05.2008", is an oil seascape painting. Overall it consists of a neutral palette with warm undertones, and smooth brushstrokes. Frame Dimensions: 22.5 x 30.5in Si...
Oil
$1,450
H 24.75 in W 38 in D 1 in
Ripples in Space - Abstract Composition Original Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Ripples in Space - Abstract Composition Original Oil Painting Vibrant abstract composition of paint, paper, enamel, and glitter by unknown artist "DeZulio" or "Dejulio". Several pie...
Enamel
"Center"
By Anatoly Kost
Located in Edinburgh, GB
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Canvas, Oil
$5,900
H 40 in W 40 in D 1.5 in
Orange Village - Urban scape Painting By Marc Zimmerman
By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Marc Zimmerman creates playful paintings, whether deep mysterious jungle or delightfully whimsical florals. His co...
Canvas, Oil
"Card Illusion" - Surreal Portrait
By Vadim Kurov
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern abstract interpretation of a traditional European aristocratic portrait complete with crown, elongated neck, bustier neckline and a hint of a cinched waist titled "Card Illusion" "Иллюзия карты" by Vadim Kurov (Russian Federation, b-1947). Signed by the artist lower right corner Вадим Куров (Bagum Kypot) (Vadim Kurov); signed and dated "99" on verso. Presented in a rustic giltwood frame. Image, 37.13"H x 26.13"W. Vadim Kurov graduated Art Industrial School. VM Mukhina. Member of the Russian Union of Artists and the International Association of Artists. Lives and works in St. Petersburg. Born in the city of Kazan, USSR, in 1947, graduate of the Kazan School of Art, graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Art and Design. The main topics of work: theatrical compositions, ballet world, a fantastic portrait, literary - philosophical still-life and landscape. His paintings are in the collections of European countries, as well as in the collections of the Museum of Theatre Arts of St. Petersburg, the Ministry of Culture, the State Museum of Fine Arts in Kazan, the Georges Pompidou Museum, the Cultural Center of Los Angeles, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami Museum, Prague Modern Art, the Museum of the Soviet and Russian Art Shanghai. EXHIBITIONS (partial list): 1989/90 – participation in the exhibitions/auctions of Drouot-Richelieu, Paris 1991 – 10-10 Gallery, St. Petersburg1991 – Nurland, Norway 1991 – Hamilton, Canada 1992/1993/1994/1995 – “New Romantics of St. Petersburg” (Zerkalo/ATUS Galleries) 1994 – MALAUKSIA Gallery, Helsinki, Finland1996 – Bremen, Germany 1997 – personal exhibition at the Zerkalo Gallery, St. Petersburg 1998 – Vincent Louis Gallery...
Oil, Linen
$775
H 16 in W 16 in
Rainy Memories - Cool Tone Figurative Abstract Textured Impasto Oil Painting
By Ekaterina Ermilkina
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ekaterina Ermilkina’s original, abstract fine art paintings are created using a skillful combination of applying and removing oil paint with a palette knife on canvas. Her inspiratio...
Canvas, Oil
Red and Blue Modern Abstract
By Heidi Hybl
Located in Soquel, CA
Red and blue abstract by Carmel, California artist Heidi Hybl (American, 20th Century). Rendered in bold tones of red, black, and blue, this piece has a brutalist architectural feel....
Canvas, Oil
$19,840
H 21.26 in W 29.53 in D 1.58 in
"Composizione astratta" Gialla e verde olio su cartone 1950 ca cm. 52 x 32
By Dora Maar
Located in Torino, IT
Dora Maar è lo pseudonimo di Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Parigi 1907 - 1997). Avvolta nell'ombra monumentale di Picasso, è stata a lungo - e riduttivamente - conosciuta come la su...
Oil, Cardboard
$5,718
H 44.89 in W 57.49 in
Els Terrats Dels Confinats - 21st Century, Contemporary, Oil Painting, Abstract
By Tomàs Sunyol
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"Tomàs Martínez Sunyol was born in Dieulefit (France) in 1964 and was surrounded by art from a young age. Both his father, Joaquim Martínez Lerma, and uncle, Álvaro Sunyol, were pain...
Canvas, Oil
Peter Walsh 'Abstraction with Noses'
By Peter Walsh 1
Located in New York, NY
The human nose, abstracted, as both portrait and punchline. Abstraction with Noses, 2025 Oil and acrylic on canvas 12 x 9 in / 30.48 x 22.86 cm Brooklyn-based artist Peter Walsh pr...
Canvas, Oil
$1,000
H 27.56 in W 23.63 in D 1.58 in
French Contemporary Art by Josette Dubost - Divagation
By Josette Dubost
Located in Paris, IDF
Josette Dubost is a French artist born in 1936 who lives & works in Solliès-Pont, France.
Canvas, Oil
$700
H 14 in W 11 in D 0.1 in
"Kendall" Portrait of Young Girl with Sunglasses Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
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Paper, Oil
Silver Landscape (Grey abstract grisaille landscape)
By Joe Jones
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joe Jones (1909-1963). Landscape, 1947. Oil on masonite panel measures 24 x 36 inches; 32.5 x 44.5 inches framed. Signed and dated lower right. Biography:...
Masonite, Oil