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HUGH BOLTON JONES
American (New York / Maryland) 1848-1927
“SPRING REFLECTIONS”
Oil on Canvas / Signed H. BOLTON JONES Lower Left
Housed in a fine custom reproduction 22K carved giltwood frame
with 18K carved giltwood liner (original frame
also available)
Museums: 27, including the Boston Museum of Arts, Metropolitan
Museum of Arts,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts
Note :
Hugh Bolton Jones remains among my favorite painters. Jones is
often classified with the Hudson River School of painters. However
his works – this painting in particular – have a wonderful
luminescence of color that goes beyond most of the works of the
school, moving into the higher key and clearer hue of the
Impressionists, yet retaining the exactness of the scene he
depicted, sometimes with single hair brushes. His ability to depict
dead branches and foliage with integrity, yet beauty, has
continually fascinated me. In looking at such fall or early spring
scenes, I often see his work in my head.
Provenance: Private collection, New York
Condition : Excellent
Image Size : 16” x 24” / Framed Size : 27”x 35”
PRICE : Please Inquire
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JONES, Hugh
Bolton (1848-1927)
Birth place: Baltimore, MD
Addresses: NYC
Profession: Landscape painter, craftsperson
Studied: Maryland
Institute; Horace Robbins in NYC; Academy Julian, Paris
Exhibited:
National Academy of
Design, 1867-1927; Paris Salon, 1877-81; Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts Annual; 1879-85, 1891-1902, 1917-18; Boston Arts Club,
1881-1909; Art Institute of Chicago; Paris Exposition, 1889 (medal),
1990 (medal); Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893 (medal); Society of
American Artists, 1902 (prizes); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (gold);
Corcoran Gallery, 1907-12 (4 times); Pan-Pacific Expo, San
Francisco, 1915 (medal).
Member:
Associate National
Academy, 1881; National Academy, 1883; Society of American Artists,
1881; American Watercolor Society; National Institute of Arts and
Letters; National Arts Club; Artists Fund Society; Century
Association; Salmagundi Club; NY Society of Painters
Work:
Metropolitan Museum of
Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art;
Brooklyn Museum
Comments:
A popular painter of
bucolic landscapes, Jones enjoyed an extraordinary 60-year
exhibition record at the National Academy.
Most of his landscapes
were painted in the Northeast, but he also traveled widely, painting
as far South as Maryland and West Virginia, and in the summer of
1874 he was in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
From 1876-80, he was in
France, studying in Paris and painting at the artists colony at
Pont-Aven, Brittany.
His brother was Francis Coates Jones. Also
appears as H. Jones Bolton.
Sources:
Who Was Who 1925;
Wright, Artists in Virginia Before 1900. Fink, American
Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 323, 360; Falk, Exh. Record Series.
This biography is drawn from the "Who Was Who in American
Art" , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States. |
For related paintings, please click below:
Olive Parker Black was a student of Hugh Bolton
Jones at the Art Students League.
Her two
paintings above are very reminiscent of his work, particularly in the use of
small brushes for foliage,
and the transformation of dead branches and reeds
to beautiful lacy surfaces.
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