1. Early life

2. Career

3. Legacy

4. Notes

5. References
    Citations  Bibliography 

6. External links

Amy Jones (1899–1992) was an American artist and muralist in the early 20th century. She was one of the founding members of the Saranac Lake Art League. Though most known for her watercolors, like Sandy Acre which is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Jones also did illustration work for magazines and books. She won national competitions to complete post office murals for the post offices in Winsted, Connecticut; Painted Post, New York and Scotia, New York. Several major U.S. corporations hold over twenty of her works.

Early life

Amy A. White{{sfn|U.S. Census|1910|p=9B}} was born April 4, 1899{{sfn|California Death Index|2014}}{{sfn|Adirondack Daily Enterprise|1992|p=3}} in Buffalo, New York.{{sfn|Heller|Heller|2013|p=290}} Her mother, Carrie or Clara White was born in Canada{{sfn|U.S. Census|1910|p=9B}}{{sfn|U.S. Census|1920|p=3B}} and her father, Squire White was a New York native.{{sfn|The Patent Trader|1961|p=7}} White's father had died by 1910 and she and her mother were living in Brooklyn.{{sfn|U.S. Census|1910|p=9B}}{{sfn|U.S. Census|1920|p=3B}}{{#tag:ref|White and her mother resided at 258 Ryerson, Brooklyn in the 1910 and 1920 census records, which is the same address given for the marriage license of White to Jones.{{sfn|U.S. Census|1910|p=9B}}{{sfn|U.S. Census|1920|p=3B}}{{sfn|The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|1920|p=17}}|group="Notes"}} White attended Erasmus Hall High School, graduating in 1918. She won a scholarship to attend the Pratt Institute and study art.{{sfn|The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|1918|p=7}} After two years at Pratt, White continued her training at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo.{{sfn|The Schenectady Gazette|1941|p=9}} In 1920, she married David Blair Jones{{sfn|The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|1920|p=17}} and continued her studies in Woodstock with Cecil Chichester; with Henry Hensche in Provincetown, Massachusetts; Wayman Adams at Elizabethtown, New York; and Anthony di Bonn at Saranac Lake. In 1930, Jones was awarded a fellowship from the Buffalo Society of Arts{{sfn|The Schenectady Gazette|1941|p=9}} and she and David moved to Saranac Lake, where David was a tubercular patient in a nursing cottage.{{sfn|U.S. Census|1930|p=19A}}{{sfn|Foster|Welsh|2005|p=102}} The following year, the couple had a daughter, Lucy.{{sfn|The Schenectady Gazette|1941|p=9}} Jones opened a studio on the grounds of the Trudeau Institute.{{sfn|Adirondack Daily Enterprise|1992|p=3}}

Career

Jones began submitting sketches for art competitions as part of the New Deal's Treasury Relief Art Project during the Great Depression. In 1937, she submitted a triptych, St. Regis Reservation, for one of the Treasury Department's completions and on the basis of the entry was awarded the contract for the post office of Winsted, Connecticut. The painting is now part of the collection at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York.{{sfn|Foster|Welsh|2005|p=102}} It demonstrates daily activities on the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation.{{sfn|Foster|Welsh|2005|p=103}} The Winsted post office mural was her first commission.{{sfn|The Schenectady Gazette|1941|p=9}} Her 1938 painting, Lincoln's Arbiter Settles the Winsted Post Office Controversy depicted a historical conflict in Winsted over where the post office for the town was to be located. Warring factions wanted it placed in the east or west sides of town, and sent countless protests to Washington, forcing President Lincoln to send an envoy to settle the dispute.{{sfn|Marling|1982|pp=204–205}} That same year, she had her first international exposure and began a long career of exhibiting both in the U.S. and abroad.{{sfn|The Patent Trader|December 1972|p=27}} Her watercolor Apple Tree was selected as part of the 1938 international exhibition of the Art Institute of Chicago.{{sfn|The Schenectady Gazette|1941|p=9}}

In 1939, Jones was awarded the mural contract for the Painted Post, New York post office.{{sfn|The Schenectady Gazette|1941|p=9}} Her painting, Recording the Victory, shows a group of Revolutionary soldiers who have been captured by a group of Native Americans.{{sfn|National Park Service|1998}} That same year, her watercolor, Saranac River was invited for the Art Institute of Chicago's show and a 1940 oil painting When Work is Done was included in an exhibit at the Smithsonian. Some of her works from this period were also reproduced in Life and the Art Digest. Jones taught art classes at Saranac Lake and served on the board of the local craft board and the village art league.{{sfn|The Schenectady Gazette|1941|p=9}} In 1941, she painted The Glen Family Spared by French and Indians for the post office in Scotia, New York.{{sfn||Eisenstadt|Moss|2005|p=1026}} In 1943, Jones left Saranac Lake and moved to Mount Kisco, which would remain her home base for nearly forty years.{{sfn|Adirondack Daily Enterprise|1992|p=3}} Jones continued painting and exhibiting in both the U.S. and abroad, traveling to several cities in Italy,{{sfn|Adirondack Daily Enterprise|1986|p=2}} as well as holding one-woman shows in London and Paris.{{sfn|The Patent Trader|1961|p=7}}

In addition to fine art, Jones was a noted illustrator and she had works selected for the 1946 edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's A child's garden of verses.{{sfn|Adirondack Daily Enterprise|1986|p=2}}{{sfn|Publishers Weekly|1946|p=178}} Jones' first husband died in 1955{{sfn|The Chappaqua Sun|1955|p=4}} and the following year, she was the only female artist profiled in Norman Kent's book Seascapes and Landscapes in Watercolor.{{sfn|The Patent Trader|June 1972|p=22}}{{sfn|Kent|1956|p=56-59}} In 1961, she married Owen Phelps Frisbie, of Long Island, New York.{{sfn|The Patent Trader|1961|p=7}}{{sfn|The North Westchester Times|1962|p=11}} In the Vietnam Era, Jones completed works for the United States Army Art Program depicting medical services provided by the military. In WAF Surgical Technician—Orlando (1965), a woman, who is a hospital technician at the Orlando Air Force Base, is making medication rounds with a male orderly.{{sfn|Calvin|Deacon|2011|p=134}} Throughout the 1970s, Jones worked and exhibited at such venues as the Hudson River Museum (1972) in Yonkers, New York; the Galeria Santo Stefano (1972) in Venice;{{sfn|The Patent Trader|December 1972|p=27}} the Gallerida II Sigillo (1974) of Padua, Italy; the Gallery of Glory Be (1975) in Kingston, Jamaica; and the Wave Hill Gallery (1977) in Riverdale, New York, among others.{{sfn|Heller|Heller|2013|p=290}}

In 1986, Jones moved to Escondido, California to be near her daughter. She continued to work and hold exhibitions.{{sfn|Adirondack Daily Enterprise|1986|p=2}} Jones died on October 8, 1992 in Escondido, California.{{sfn|Adirondack Daily Enterprise|1992|p=3}}

Legacy

Jones' painting Sandy Acre is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.{{sfn|Smithsonian American Art Museum|2016}} Both the Ford Motor Company and Standard Oil Company have sizeable collections of her works{{sfn|Adirondack Daily Enterprise|1992|p=3}} and the New York Hospital has 35 of her paintings in their collection. Besides public and private corporate holdings, Jones has works in numerous private collections and museums.{{sfn|The Patent Trader|December 1972|p=27}}

Notes

References

Citations

Bibliography

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• {{cite book|ref=harv|last1=Eisenstadt|first1=Peter R.|last2=Moss|first2=Laura-Eve|title=The Encyclopedia of New York State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmHEm5ohoCUC&pg=PA1026|year=2005|publisher=Syracuse University Press|location=Syracuse, New York|isbn=978-0-8156-0808-0}}
• {{cite book|ref=harv|last1=Foster|first1=Rebecca|last2=Welsh|first2=Caroline Mastin|title=Wild Exuberance: Harold Weston's Adirondack Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_cfJhCrO1RMC&pg=PA102|year=2005|publisher=Syracuse University Press|location=Syracuse, New York|isbn=978-0-8156-0834-9}}
• {{cite book|ref=harv|editor-last1=Heller|editor-first1=Jules|editor-last2=Heller|editor-first2=Nancy G.|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA290|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|location=New York, New York|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5}}
• {{cite book|ref=harv|last=Kent|first=Norman|title=Seascapes and Landscapes in Watercolor|year=1956|publisher=Watson-Guptill Publications|location=New York, New York|chapter=Amy Jones|oclc=1279020|pages=56–59}}
• {{cite book|ref=harv|last=Marling|first=Karal Ann |title=Wall-to-wall America: Post Office Murals in the Great Depression|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C_heVcKKqVEC&pg=PA204|year=1982|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis, Minnesota|isbn=978-0-8166-3673-0}}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|U.S. Census|1910}}|author=|title=1910 United States Census|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRV8-15W?i=17&wc=QZZW-ZQ7%3A133641301%2C137724901%2C141275301%2C1589089101%3Fcc%3D1727033&cc=1727033|website=FamilySearch|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration|accessdate=24 July 2016|location=Washington, D. C.|date=April 19, 1910}}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|U.S. Census|1920}}|author=|title=1920 United States Census|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RXL-6YD?i=5&wc=QZJR-855%3A1036473601%2C1036473602%2C1037543101%2C1589336015%3Fcc%3D1488411&cc=1488411|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration|accessdate=24 July 2016|location=Washington, D. C.|date=January 3, 1920}}
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• {{cite news|ref={{harvid|The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|1918}}|author=|title=247 Students Receive Diplomas|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5360532/247_students_receive_diplomas_the/|accessdate=24 July 2016|publisher=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=June 28, 1918|location=Brooklyn, New York|via = Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}
• {{cite news|ref={{harvid|The North Westchester Times|1962}}|author=|title=Amy Jones Contributing Talent to Ball|url=http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn2001062048/1962-11-22/ed-1/seq-11/|accessdate=24 July 2016|publisher=The North Westchester Times|date=November 22, 1962|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724212734/http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn2001062048/1962-11-22/ed-1/seq-11/|archivedate=July 24, 2016|location=Mount Kisco, New York}}
• {{cite news|ref={{harvid|Adirondack Daily Enterprise|1992}} |author= |title=Amy Jones (Frisbie) |url=http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn86033360/1992-10-14/ed-1/seq-3/ |accessdate=24 July 2016 |publisher=Adirondack Daily Enterprise |date=October 14, 1992 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724203535/http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn86033360/1992-10-14/ed-1/seq-3/ |archivedate=July 24, 2016 |location=Saranac Lake, New York |deadurl=no |df= }}
• {{cite news|ref={{harvid|The Patent Trader|1961}} |author= |title=Amy Jones, Mr. Frisbie Are Engaged |url=http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83008557/1961-03-19/ed-1/seq-7/ |accessdate=24 July 2016 |publisher=The Patent Trader |date=March 19, 1961 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724202444/http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83008557/1961-03-19/ed-1/seq-7/ |archivedate=July 24, 2016 |location=Mount Kisco, New York |deadurl=no |df= }}
• {{cite news|ref={{harvid|Adirondack Daily Enterprise|1986}}|author=|title=Artist's accomplishments noted by Reviewers Club|url=http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn86033360/1986-04-23/ed-1/seq-2/|accessdate=24 July 2016|publisher=Adirondack Daily Enterprise|date=April 23, 1986|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724210757/http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn86033360/1986-04-23/ed-1/seq-2/|archivedate=July 24, 2016|location=Saranac Lake, New York}}
• {{cite news|ref={{harvid|The Patent Trader|June 1972}}|author=|title=Bedford artist has show at gallery in Venice|url=http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83008557/1972-06-22/ed-1/seq-22/|accessdate=24 July 2016|publisher=The Patent Trader|date=June 22, 1972|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724220653/http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83008557/1972-06-22/ed-1/seq-22/|archivedate=July 24, 2016|location=Mount Kisco, New York}}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|California Death Index|2014}}|author=|title=California Death Index, 1940–1997: Amy Jones Frisbie|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPNV-Y3X|website=FamilySearch|publisher=Department of Public Health Services|accessdate=24 July 2016|location=Sacramento, California|date=November 26, 2014}}
• {{cite journal|ref={{harvid|Publishers Weekly|1946}}|author=|title=A child's garden of verses|journal=Publishers Weekly|date=November 1946|volume=150|publisher=R. R. Bowker Company|location=New York City, New York}}
• {{cite news|ref={{harvid|The Chappaqua Sun|1955}}|author=|title=David Blair Jones|url=http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn2001062038/1955-08-04/ed-1/seq-4/|accessdate=24 July 2016|publisher=The Chappaqua Sun|date=August 4, 1955|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724210042/http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn2001062038/1955-08-04/ed-1/seq-4/|archivedate=July 24, 2016|location=Chappaqua, New York}}
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• {{cite news|ref={{harvid|The Patent Trader|December 1972}} |author= |title=Paintings of Amy Jones on exhibit at museum |url=http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83008557/1972-12-02/ed-1/seq-27/ |accessdate=24 July 2016 |publisher=The Patent Trader |date=December 2, 1972 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724185347/http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83008557/1972-12-02/ed-1/seq-27/ |archivedate=July 24, 2016 |location=Mount Kisco, New York |deadurl=no |df= }}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Smithsonian American Art Museum|2016}} |author= |title=Sandy Acre |url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=12712 |website=American Art |publisher=Smithsonian American Art Museum |accessdate=24 July 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175338/http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=12712 |archivedate=March 3, 2016 |location=Washington, D.C. |date=2016 |deadurl=no |df= }}
• {{cite news|ref={{harvid|The Schenectady Gazette|1941}} |author= |title=Scotia Postoffice Gets Mural for First Birthday |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CpAuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MYkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1158%2C5207012 |accessdate=24 July 2016 |publisher=The Schenectady Gazette |date=August 18, 1941 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724171211/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CpAuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MYkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1158%2C5207012 |archivedate=July 24, 2016 |location=Schenectady, New York |deadurl=no |df= }}

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