Clifford Edgar Jones [1915-1975]
American painter
Chickens for sale, 1948.
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches [unframed] | 34 x 27-1/2 inches [framed]
Signed at lower right : ‘Clifford Jones ‘48’.

TITLES:
2023 Chickens for sale
2023 Hanging game
2022 Hanging game

CONDITION:
Original untouched condition.

DESCRIPTION:
Similar in flavor to the works of Wilfredo Lam (1902-1982), Clifford Edgar Jones (1915-1975) work reflects the early abstract movement in America.  The works are figurative but geometricized and increasingly abstract and fractal.  Picking up aspects of the Cubist movement and combining it with the colors and compositions of WPA murals and adding in an undertone of Social Realist aesthetic and tone.  All of these influences can be clearly seen in Chickens for sale the painting be offered.

PROVENANCE:
2023 ( David Smernoff, New Haven, CT & New York, NY ) ;
2023 ( [withheld], MA ) ;
2022 ( [withheld], MA ) ;
after 1948 Private collection of [unknown] ;
1948 Clifford Edgar Jones [1915-1975], the artist .

EXHIBITION:
– 2023 [withheld] ;
– 2022 [withheld] ;

REFERENCES:
– [withheld], 2023
– [withheld], 2022

BIOGRAPHY:
Clifford Edgar Jones (1915-1975) was an American early abstract painter. Jones was born in 1915 in Greentown, Indiana. He studied at the John Herron Art School in Indianapolis, Indiana, graduating in 1937. In 1937, Jones won a $4,000 scholarship to study for two years at the American Academy in Rome with his work Carnival, which is currently owned by the New Britain Museum of American Art. After returning from Rome, Jones worked as a mural painter and illustrator. He also taught art classes. Jones passed away in 1975 at the age of 60.