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Lois Mailou Jones is important for championing the artistic achievement of African-American artists. She is known for her African-insprired, worldly art. She defied art norms and painted a wide variety of subjects.
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Lois Mailou Jones Still Life
Located in San Francisco, CA
Lois Mailou Jones: 1905-1998. Well listed African American painter and one of the most important
Category
1930s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
African American Woman artist Mailou Jones Cezannian Cote d'Azur cubist village
Located in Norwich, GB
to introduce Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1988). Often associated with the Harlem Renaissance, her
work
Category
Mid-19th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
POEMS OF LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR
Located in Portland, ME
Senghor, Leopold Sedar. POEMS OF LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR with illustrations by Lois Maillou Jones
Category
1990s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Stipple Drawing in Black and White of the First Lady of Haiti - African American
Located in Miami, FL
was executed during the hight of World War II. Lois Mailou Jones's husband was from Haiti.
The work is
Category
1940s Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
"Harmony" Diptych
By Richard W. Dempsey
Located in Washington, DC
of portrait paintings of outstanding African Americans. Dempsey was part of the Loïs Mailou Jones
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Arctic Light - Orange Sun
By Karl Zerbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Aronson, Bernard Chaet, Reed Kay, Arthur Polonsky, Jack Kramer, Barbara Swan, Andrew Kooistra, and Lois
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
