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Lois Mailou Jones scrapbooks, 1922-1992

Catalog Data

Creator:
Jones, Lois Mailou, 1905-1998  Search this
Subject:
Bernard, Emile  Search this
Howard University  Search this
Type:
Scrapbooks
Place:
Africa, French-speaking West -- Description and travel
Place of publication, production, or execution:
United States
Physical Description:
5 Microfilm reels, 27 volumes on 5 microfilm reels
Access Note / Rights:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Summary:
This microfilm collection contains Lois Mailou Jones' scrapbooks documenting her career as an African American artist and educator. Scrapbooks contain correspondence (1928-1992) primarily regarding Jones' exhibitions, Howard University, and her art education in Paris, and include a letter and photograph from Emile Bernard; photographs of Jones in her Washington, D.C. and Paris studios, her work, and her extensive travels through Africa and Haiti; and printed material including exhibition announcements, catalogs, and clippings (1922-1992) of reviews, interviews, and articles on the European and African influences in her work. Also included are her resume, materials submitted for the Rosenwald Fellowship, and notes related to her coordination of the 1974 exhibition <em>Paintings by Women Artists of the Caribbean and Afro-American Women Artists</em>.
Citation:
Lois Mailou Jones scrapbooks, 1922-1992. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reels 4371-4374 and 4577 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Location of Originals:
Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Washington, D.C. holds the Lois Mailou Jones papers, 1920-1998, which include the original scrapbooks, reels 4371-74, 4577.
Loan:
Loan
Biography Note:
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998) was an African American painter, designer, and educator in Washington, DC. Jones studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and at the Academie Julian in Paris. She was professor of design and watercolor at Howard University from 1930-1977. She married Haitian graphic designer Vergniaud Pierre-Noel in 1953 and the couple frequently returned to Haiti. In 1970 she served as cultural ambassador to Africa for the United States Information Agency.
Language Note:
Several letters and clippings are in French.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming by Lois Mailou Jones, 1990 and 1992.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
African American art -- African influences  Search this
African American artists  Search this
Art, Haitian  Search this
Women artists  Search this
Women painters  Search this
Women educators  Search this
Women designers  Search this
HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)  Search this
African American educators  Search this
African American painters  Search this
Theme:
Women  Search this
African American  Search this
Lives of artists  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)9983
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212709
AAA_collcode_jonelois
Theme:
Women
African American
Lives of artists
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_212709