John Paul Jones (American, 1924-1999), Untitled, 1962 Lithograph
John Paul Jones (1924–1999) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, and educator whose national reputation during the 1950s and 1960s rested largely on his figurative drawings and prints. After studying printmaking at the University of Iowa, Jones was recruited in 1953 to establish the printmaking program at UCLA and later taught at the University of California, Irvine. His works of this period often present solitary figures whose features emerge from rubbed, scraped, and heavily worked passages of ink. Faces remain recognizable but incomplete, giving the subjects a remote, dreamlike presence without abandoning the human figure. Jones received a major solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1963, and his work is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, and Laguna Art Museum.
Untitled is a 1962 lithograph in black on white Arches paper, printed by Joe Zirker and published by Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. The composition places a frontal portrait within a dark rectangular field at left and a lightly modeled profile at right, the two heads separated by a broad expanse of unprinted paper and enclosed by faint rectangular square boundaries. Inscribed “Tam Imp” in pencil and initialed “J.P.J.” lower right, identifying this as one of nine Tamarind impressions outside the numbered edition of 20; with the Tamarind bell and Joe Zirker “JZ” printer blindstamps nearby. Sheet measures approximately 11.25 × 7.5 inches. Condition is very good overall, with minimal handling wear and deckled edges as issued; image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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John Paul Jones (1924–1999) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, and educator whose national reputation during the 1950s and 1960s rested largely on his figurative drawings and prints. After studying printmaking at the University of Iowa, Jones was recruited in 1953 to establish the printmaking program at UCLA and later taught at the University of California, Irvine. His works of this period often present solitary figures whose features emerge from rubbed, scraped, and heavily worked passages of ink. Faces remain recognizable but incomplete, giving the subjects a remote, dreamlike presence without abandoning the human figure. Jones received a major solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1963, and his work is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, and Laguna Art Museum.
Untitled is a 1962 lithograph in black on white Arches paper, printed by Joe Zirker and published by Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. The composition places a frontal portrait within a dark rectangular field at left and a lightly modeled profile at right, the two heads separated by a broad expanse of unprinted paper and enclosed by faint rectangular square boundaries. Inscribed “Tam Imp” in pencil and initialed “J.P.J.” lower right, identifying this as one of nine Tamarind impressions outside the numbered edition of 20; with the Tamarind bell and Joe Zirker “JZ” printer blindstamps nearby. Sheet measures approximately 11.25 × 7.5 inches. Condition is very good overall, with minimal handling wear and deckled edges as issued; image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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Dimensions
11.25 x 7.5 in
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