Lot 2172
Fay Jones (American, b. 1936), Untitled
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Sheet size 14 x 19 in.; Frame dimensions 19 3/4 x 24 1/2 in.
The Contemporary Art Collection of Francine & Benson Pilloff, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Fay Jones received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1957. She has received numerous awards including the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors grant in 2013, the Seattle Art Museum’s 2006 Poncho Artist of the Year award, grants from the NEA in 1983 and 1990, the Washington State Arts Commission in 1984, and La Napoli Art Foundation in 1989.
Her work is included in the collections of the Portland Art Museum and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Oregon, the Seattle Art Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington. Her work has been exhibited in a 2007 retrospective at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, a 1997 traveling retrospective with the Boise Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, WA, the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, and the Palm Springs Desert Museum in California.
Artist Statement:
"My own work is fiction, set in the present. Caught between curious affection for history and anxiety for the future, I draw on a vivid and inaccurate memory and somewhat quirky observations of contemporary American life. I am married to the painter Robert Jones and we have four children, which is the most important counterbalance to my art."
Good estate condition; not examined out of the frame.
