| LC control no. | n 80028176 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Jones, Lois Mailou |
| Variant(s) | Pierre-Noël, Lois Mailou Noël, Lois Mailou Pierre- |
| See also | Employer: Howard University Graduate of: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. School Graduate of: Howard University |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Washington (D.C.) |
| Birth date | 1905-11-03 |
| Death date | 1998-06-09 |
| Place of birth | Boston (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. School Howard University. College of Fine Arts Harvard University Loïs Mailou Jones Studio Gallery (Edgartown, Mass.) |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Textile designers College teachers Painters |
| Found in | Her Peintures, 1937-1951, 1952. Her Interview with Lois Mailou Jones, c1978: t.p. (Lois Mailou Jones) leaf ii (Lois Mailou Jones (Mrs. Vergniaud Pierre-Noël); b. 1905, Boston, Mass.; painter and water-colorist) N.Y. times, June 13, 1998 (Lois Mailou Jones; painter and teacher; b. in Boston in 1905; taught at Howard Univ. in Washington from 1930-1977; d. June 9 in Washington at age 92) NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Washington, DC for Her Papers, 1920-1998 (Lois Mailou Jones Pierre-Noel; 1905-1998; visual artist, educator, scholar, and mentor; served as professor of art at the Howard Univ. College of Fine Arts from 1930 to 1967; m. Louis Vergniaud Pierre-Noel, the renowned Haitian artist, in 1953) African American National Biography, accessed May 15, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Jones, Loïs Mailou; painter, educator, textile designer; born 03 November 1905 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States; studied design at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (1923-1927); earned a teaching certificate from the Boston Normal Art School; received a one-year scholarship to the Designers Art School of Boston; attended Harvard University; was recruited by Howard University (1930-1977); received BA in Art Education magna cum laude, Howard University (1945); illustrated books and periodicals, including "African Heroes and Heroines" (1936-1965); received a scholarship to study in Paris (1937); enrolled at the Académie Julien; her best-known work was "Les Fétiches" (1938), a Cubist-inspired painting of African masks; exhibited in the Chicago Negro Exposition (1940); her painting "Indian Shops, Gay Head" (1940) won the Corcoran Gallery's Robert Wood Bliss Award (1941); taught briefly at Haiti's Centre d'Art and the Foyer des Arts Plastiques; returned to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts for a retrospective exhibition (1973); received citations from the Haitian government (1955) and from U.S. president Jimmy Carter (1980); opened the Loïs Mailou Jones Studio Gallery in Edgartown, Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard (1988); died 09 June 1998 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States) |
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