HENRY BOZEMAN JONES (1889 - 1971) Banks of Chaloon.
Oil on linen canvas, circa 1929. 762x610 mm; 30x24 inches. Signed in oil, lower left.
Provenance: the estate of Constance E. Clayton, Philadelphia (2011).
Exhibited: Exhibit of Fine Arts by American Negro Artists, the Harmon Foundation, International House, New York, NY, January 7 - 19, 1930, with the artist's 1929 submission and the gallery number 83 labels on the upper stretcher bar verso..
Banks of Chaloon is a significant painting by this Philadelphia modern artist whose long career began before the Harlem Renaissance period. Henry Bozeman Jones studied at the School of Pedagogy and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1908 - 1910. While earning a living as a children's book illustrator, Jones was a painter, printmaker and a contemporary of Allan Freelon in Philadelphia. As recorded in Against the Odds: African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation, Jones exhibited his paintings in the Harmon Foundation exhibitions of 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1933. Reynolds/Wright/Driskell p. 22 and 286; Cederhom p. 286.
