Hugh Bolton Jones

Background

Hugh Bolton Jones was born on October 20, 1848 at Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Hugh B. and Laura Eliza Jones.

Education

Jones began his art training at the Maryland Institute and later became a pupil of Horace W. Robbins.

Career

Jones's first field work was done in the vicinity of his native city, and his earliest paintings were shown in Baltimore, but he sent pictures to the National Academy of Design as early as 1874. In 1876 he went to France. He made many outdoor sketches and studies in Brittany, with his headquarters at Pont-Aven, at that time a favorite resort of painters. In 1877 he made a sketching tour in Spain and North Africa. During the four years of his sojourn in Europe he exhibited several paintings at the Paris Salon and one at an international exposition in Paris.

He returned to the United States in 1880 and established himself in New York, becoming a member of the Society of American Artists in 1881, and a National Academician in 1883.

He was a regular contributor to the exhibitions of the National Academy for many years. He shared a studio with his younger brother, Francis C. Jones, a figure painter; but he spent a large part of his time in the country, finding many of his best subjects in New Jersey and New England. His "Ferry Inn" was shown at the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1876. His "Tangiers" was purchased by W. T. Walters of Baltimore.

Five of his works were in the Thomas B. Clarke collection which was sold in 1899.

"Spring, " given to the Metropolitan Museum by George I. Seney, and reproduced in Isham's History of American Painting, is a characteristic example. "The interest in all the minutiae of nature which characterized the old Hudson River school is there, " observes Isham, "but the execution is surer and more artistic, and the coloring in its truthfulness and delicacy and in the absence of the brown studio tones shows the influence of the French open-air school. "

At the time of his death, which took place at his New York home, the artist was in his seventy-ninth year. Jones contracted pernicious anemia and died on 24 September 1927 in New York.

Achievements

• Hugh Bolton Jones was a prominent artist who was awarded with medals at two international expositions in Paris and at the world's fairs in Chicago, 1893, St. Louis, 1904, and San Francisco, 1915. Both the Webb prize and the Shaw Fund prize were given him at the exhibition of the Society of American Artists in 1902. Two of his landscapes are in the Metropolitan Museum, New York; at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, is his "Springtime"; other works are in the Pennsylvania Academy and the Brooklyn Institute. Also, Jones was trustee of the Baltimore Museum of Art from its foundation in 1914 until his death.

Works

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Views

In his painting Jones held the mirror up to nature with the utmost fidelity, never adding any superfluous embroideries. His evident enjoyment of the beauty of spring foliage and skies was manifested in many ingenuous pages of fresh and delicate color.

Membership

Hugh Jones became a member of the Society of American Artists in 1881 and a member of the American Water Color Society in 1882. He was also a member of the Century Association and Charcoal Club.

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• Thomas B. Clarke (1848–1931) said of him in 1891:
  
  "A native painter of American landscape, who has never been touched by any fashions in art, is H. Bolton Jones. He paints Nature for herself and not for the sake of illustrating any theory as to how she might or should be painted. He studies her form, color and various characteristics, and gives us the result of his investigations in transcripts of familiar scenes that are rich in rural charms. His drawing is careful and correct, his color vivacious and his execution finished. .. It is by his American landscape that America knows and will remember him. "

Connections

Hugh Bolton Jones had never married.

Father:

Hugh B. Jones

Mother:

Laura Eliza Jones

mentor:

Horace W. Robbins

American landscape painter known for his watercolors.

Brother:

Francis C. Jones

figure painter

Friend:

Thomas Hovenden

1840–1895 Irish artist and teacher

References

• Western Arts Association Bulletin Thirty-Third Annual Report And Year Book 1927
• Who's Who in America (1926 - 1927), Vol. 14: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women in the United States