Lot Details
Lot 2504
Joe (Joseph John) Jones 1909-1963 Eskimo Mending the Nets
1909-1963
Eskimo Mending the Nets
Signed Joe Jones (ll); inscribed as titled and $300/Joe Jones on the stretcher
Oil on canvas
24 x 16 inches
Provenance:
Associated American Artists, possibly
In 1943, the War Department established the Army Art Program to create an extensive pictorial record of World War II. Participating artists were selected by an art committee working closely with Associated American Artists, an organization formed in 1934 that made fine art accessible to the public in the form of prints. Twenty-three military and twenty civilian artists were instructed to depict significant military events, the daily activities of American soldiers, and characteristic views of the countryside. Joe Jones, one of the artists selected, visited the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. It is likely that Mending the Nets was painted either during this sojourn, or shortly afterward from sketches.
Jones is thought to have been exposed to the essentials of Japanese art during his Aleutian experience, and while there to have first experimented with the delicate line and muted palette of his later work. Mending the Nets is a transitional piece that relates to his figural imagery of the 1930s even as it anticipates the stylistic elements of his mature abstractions.
Estate of Alexander Segal
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